SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2016-2017 concert dates  1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 9410 Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call (628) 400-2144. $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
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Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ PARK PRESIDIO UMC Saturday, May 6th, 2017 @ St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Saturday, November 4th, 2017 @ St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra. |
2016-2017 Concert Dates
August 11th, 2016LANGUOROUS LIAISONS
April 21st, 2016SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“LANGUOROUS LIAISONS”
Saturday May 21st, 2016 at 8 pm St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109
$25 General, sliding scale available for students and seniors
Tickets are available at the door.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2016
Hey, big arts fans! Spend a little time with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra in Languorous Liaisons — 8:00pm, Saturday, May 21st, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church (1111 O’Farrell) — for close encounters of the musical kind, including Harry Bernstein‘s lovable Quartetto Amabile, featuring the sensuous strings of the ensemble. A rendezvous of a decidedly animated nature will be provide by Lisa Scola Prosek, in her spirited Mantilla (A Game Played with Cow Chips). Plangent-yet-pungent meetings will also be struck up in Michael Cooke‘s phantasmagorical Fantasy in D…(ish), where every player manifests an independent union. Davide Verotta will offer the collaboration of virtuosi, in a diverting and resonant Divertimento per Piano, Violin e Orchestra; while Mark Alburger evokes the many loves of Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, via a dizzyingly retro-post-minimalist/modernist Eight Waltzes, from his opera celebrating and denigrating the titular Austro-American composer-socialite.
John Beeman‘s Ishi: Scene III wraps up this evening of assignations, in cross-cultural diversities and unities that will please the ear and elevate the heart.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE:Â St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May, 21th 2016
TICKETS: $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
2015-2016 Concert Dates
September 18th, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2015-2016 concert dates 1111 O’Farrell Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call (628) 400-2144. $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
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Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ PARK PRESIDIO UMC Saturday, May 21st, 2016 @ St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra. |
TALES OF THE WANDERERS
September 10th, 2015SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“TALES OF THE WANDERERS”
Saturday October 10th, 2015 at 8 pm Park Presidio United Methodist Church
4301 Geary Boulevard at 7th ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
$25 General, sliding scale available for students and seniors
Tickets are available at the door and online at http://parkpresidioperformance.brownpapertickets.com.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2015
The Hero’s Journey is ever with us. Travel with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra to worlds known and unknown in Tales of the Wanderers for a musical odyssey of mythic proportions, beginning on a swift Horse, from the whirlwind pen of Associate Music Director Martha Stoddard. Next Oakland composer Allan Crossman will take us beyond space and time in Impromptoodle, a wind-quintet theme-and-variations on an early East-Coast American fancy, while Music Director Mark Alburger evokes a medieval Korean world of lost echoes in Sejong the Great, on a quest balanced between civilization and death.
Renowned composers Lisa Scola Prosek and Michael Kimbell follow paths closer to home in evocations of early Fort Ross (Lucaria, a Native-American operatic tale of collaborations and collisions with Californios and Russians) and the Golden Gate, a Barcarole free-for-all of floating fantasies. Principal Oboist Stardust will conclude the festivities in a choreographic wander to France for the Proustian A la recherche des danses perdues (In Search of Lost Dances).
The Musical Road Goes Every-Which-Way On.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Park Presidio UMC 4301 Geary Boulevard (at 7th Avenue), San Francisco, CA
WHEN: 8pm Saturday October, 10th 2015
TICKETS: $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
Legacy of the Invisible
April 9th, 2015SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:
“LEGACY OF THE INVISIBLE”
Saturday May 9th, 2015 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$20 General, $17 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9, 2015 —-
The fox in Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince was right: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible . . .” Join the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra for “Legacy of the Invisible”: a meditation on beauties and excitements of the ethereal, including the vanished Native Californians of John Beeman‘s Ishi Emerges, deep computer-music science in Michael Cooke‘s for n in reversed(range (1,4)): play (n) pause (n), a multitude of multicultural manifestations via Sheli Nan’s La Tierra – Cancion de Amor, and artworks turned to aural artifacts by Mark Alburger‘s Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of 3) Women, after Arizona artist Roland March. Other concerted efforts include the articulated arpeggiated adventures of Jan Pusina’s Fantasy for Harp and Orchestra, plus Davide Verotta‘s irresistibly intangible Quasi Concertante.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May, 9th 2015
TICKETS: $20 General, $17 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
2014-2015 Concert Dates
January 12th, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2014-2015 concert dates Old First Concerts/Presbyterian Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109 Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door.
$20 General, $17 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
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Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ Old First Concerts Saturday, May 9th, 2015 @ Old First Concerts
SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra. |
MUSIC OF AIR, EARTH, FIRE, AND WATER
September 4th, 2014SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:
“MUSIC OF AIR, EARTH, FIRE, AND WATER“
Saturday October 4th, 2014 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$20 General, $17 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4, 2014Â —-
Tune in, turn on, drop everything and join the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra for Music of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water — elemental sounds from around the world and beyond. Philosophic / spiritual (and occasionally satirical) compositions include Mark Alburger‘s Abducted by Aliens, where sonic samplings are skewed (and skewered) by sound effects, and Michael Kimbell’s sardonic Frontline, in phantasmagorical fight scenes of a Soldier’s Tale sent to Sanctuary. Works by Loren Jones and Lisa Scola Prosek connect Ancient animations and Native American traditions in beautiful musical montages of Raven and Panther and The Lariat (the latter in co-operation with the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation). Rounding out the elements of the program, Stardust’s Railway Sonata takes a compositional journey across America Musicana, conducted figuratively and literally by Music Director Mark Alburger and Associate Martha Stoddard.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday October, 2014
TICKETS: $20 General, $17 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
May 7th, 2014SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:
“ACROSS TIME AND SPACE”
Saturday June 7th, 2014 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7, 2014 —-
3-2-1-Liftoff to places near and far as San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra travels Across Time and Space — 8pm, June 7, Old First Concerts (1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA). Featured otherworldly travelers include Roberto Becheri, offering Bridges, which evokes the past and present of Florence’s Ponte Vecchio and the Golden Gate Bridge. John Beeman will then have us traveling back in time to the last Native American, previously untouched by Western Civilization, as Ishi Emerges. Also showcased will be the atmospheric Two Songs for Tenor and Orchestra, by Brian Holmes, and a soaring string works graced by flute, from Martha Stoddard. The program is rounded out by new celestial works of Michael Cooke and Davide Verotta: the improvisatory-geometrical Triangles and anagramatic-tricksterish Rehem.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday June 7th, 2013
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
FELLOW TRAVELERS
October 9th, 2013SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and Old First Concerts Present:
“FELLOW TRAVELERS”
Saturday November 9th, 2013 at 8 pm Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door. For more information, please call Old First Concerts box office.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 9, 2013 —-
SONIC-IST MANIFESTO
By ALLBERGER MARKS and
FEDERATED ANGELS
Fellow Musical Travelers of all countries, unite!
You have nothing to lose but your chords.
You have a world to win.
 A SPECTRE is haunting America — the spectre of New Music. All the powers of old Art have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre; Popular and Classical Establishments, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol, French Neo-Neoclassicism and German Post-Post-Serialism.
Where is the New-Music Composer in opposition who has not been decried by opponents in power? Where is the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of New Music, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact:
I. New Music is already acknowledged to still be around.
II. It is high time that Mark Alburger, Philip Freihofner, Eduard Prosek, Lisa Scola Prosek, David Sprung, and Davide Verotta of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of New Music with a Manifesto of their 8pm, November 9th, 2013, concert Fellow Travelers.  To this end, six New Works in Various Styles will call for a Variety of Assemblages of Musicians at Old First Concerts.
Comrade Verotta will lead the charge with Invitation, a solo piano work as a bridge to his larger-scale Il Ponte. He then may be openly in collaboration with Oboist-Composer-Collaborationist Philip Freihofner for this latter’s Filled with Moonlight, a top-secret exercise in enchantment. The ranks will subsequently strengthen for the revolution of Fellow Traveler David Sprung’s Haiku, where the dulcet tones of tenor are set against demonstrative demonstrations of wind quintet and piano.
Party Leader Scola Prosek takes up music of the people (specifically the Essalen of Central California) in excerpts from her award-winning new opera The Lariat, featuring soprano Desirae Harp. This will be followed by Life-of-the Party Eduard Prosek, in his 40,000-hits-on-YouTube The Curse, for a cursed number of instrumentalists in chains. Wrapping up the rally will be Chairman Mark Alburger’s Double Piano Concerto (“Fellow Travellers”), with duo-soloist rebellious teen-age sons Gabriel and Eytan Schillinger-Hyman often performing against obbligato-cellist establishment new-age mom Ariella Hyman, for a Poulencian-inspired romp guaranteed to promote insurgency.
Fellow audience Travelers of all counties, listen!
You have nothing to lose but your sensibilities.
You have a universe of sonic opportunities to explore.
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109
WHEN: 8pm Saturday November 9th, 2013
TICKETS: $17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
2013-2014 Concert Dates
May 23rd, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2013-2014 concert dates Old First Concerts/Presbyterian Church 1751 Sacramento Street/Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94109 Tickets are available through the Old First Concerts Box Office at (415) 474-1608, online at http://oldfirstconcerts.org and at the door.
$17 General, $14 Seniors (65 and older), $5 Full Time Students (Children 12 and under are free)
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Saturday, November 9th, 2013 @ Old First Concerts Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ Old First Concerts Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ Old First Concerts
SFCCO was founded by composers with a mission to build new audiences of new music in San Francisco while cultivating local composers writing for traditional orchestra. |