SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2021 concert dates 2021 Virtual Concerts For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
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Saturday, May 8th, 2021 on Zoom at 7:00 PM PST. Saturday, November 13th, 2021 on Zoom at 7:00 PM PST. 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. |
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2021 Concert Dates
Sunday, April 18th, 2021ALL THAT FALL
Saturday, September 14th, 2019SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“ALL THAT FALL”
Saturday October 5th, 2019 at 8 pm
St. Teresa Of Avila Catholic Church
1490 19thStreet, San Francisco, CA 94107
$25 General, sliding scale available
Tickets are available at the door.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO,
It’s autumn — leaves and perhaps the stock market are falling, regime change is in the air, and San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents All That Fall. Sonic amber Waves of grain will be harvested in Kat Walsh’s new string quartet, breezily evoking a new post-minimalist consciousness. And certainly autumnal daze is found in the days of Charlie Sharzer’s The First Week of Freshman Year, a hilarious and thoughtful tour-du-force of pre-academic musical delights. In a related spirit, Mark Alburger takes the mating games of young and old seriously in Broke Dance Intermezzi, as a series of spins on artful calisthenics from around the clock and world, alluding to J.S. Bach, John Cage, Jethro Tull, and African gumboot / xylophone music, among others.
Spilling into a fall romance, the program concludes with Igor Stravinsky‘s classic / neoclassic / neobaroque Pulcinella Suite — because, as we all know, if it ain’t baroque, break dance it…
Program:
Mark Alburger – Broke Dance Intermezzi
Charlie Sharzer – The First Week of Freshman Year
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite
Kat Walsh – String Quartet “Waves”
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Teresa Of Avila Catholic Church, 1490 19thStreet, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday Oct, 5th 2019
TICKETS: $25 sliding scale, general admission, available at the door.
UNDER DECONSTRUCTION
Thursday, April 4th, 2019SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“UNDER DECONSTRUCTION”
Saturday May 4th, 2019 at 8 pm St. Teresa Of Avila Catholic Church
1490 19thStreet, San Francisco, CA 94107
$25 General, sliding scale available
Tickets are available at the door.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO,
“If it’s baroque, fix it.” Or classical / romantic / modern, for that matter. The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra takes everything Under Deconstruction, turning the old new and the new newer. The fun begins with Davide Verotta verily dazzles with both Sonata Fantasia piano updates and Incandescent music for five percussionists and strings. Not to be outdone, Michael Cooke deconstructs Beethoven dramatically and unexpectedly in Symphony No. 4, with nods to the Fifth and Eighth of the B-Man. And speaking of such, John Beeman presents another in his series of Ishi evocations, where the clash of cultures rises to new levels of passion and poignancy. Also hoping to get a rise will be Music Director Mark Alburger‘s takes on Broke Dances, breaking towards an apocalyptic musical meltdown re the Book of Revelation. Revolutionary, all!
Program:
Mark Alburger – Broke Dances
Mark Alburger – Book of Revelation
John Beeman – Ishi
Michael Cooke – Symphony No. 4
Michael Cooke – Impromptu M/M
& Michael Cox
Davide Verotta – Sonata Fantasia
Davide Verotta – Incandescent
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Teresa Of Avila Catholic Church, 1490 19thStreet, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May, 4th 2019
TICKETS: $25 sliding scale, general admission, available at the door.
2019 Concert Dates
Monday, February 18th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Announces its 2019 concert dates St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church 1490 19th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please call (628) 400-2144. $25 – general admission, sliding scale available, available at the door.
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Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ St. Teresa of Avila Catholic 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. |
TIME TRAVAILS
Thursday, September 13th, 2018SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“TIME TRAVAILS”
Saturday October 13th, 2018 at 8 pm St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
$25 General, sliding scale available
Tickets are available at the door.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO,
Join the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, as we space out for “Time Travails” — a celebration and lamentation of the contemporary world and beyond, beginning close with Stardust‘s Home, evoking sonic comforts and challenges. From here, we will prevail forwards and backwards as Erling Wold‘s April’s Apogee transports us to futuristic spatial explorations of the surrealist kind, and Roberto Becheri‘s War Poems, returns to great texts of the not-so-great 1914-1918 era. The dizzying distortions of SFCCO Composition Contest-Winner Alex Ness‘s deconstruction of a pop song in Contrafacts will sure to amaze, while new works of Harry Bernstein and Kat Walsh should leaving us dancing and traveling to greater heights.
Mark Alburger and Martha Stoddard conduct, Harriet March Page narrates, and there may be a secret soprano and hidden MP3 player, in the trails and trials and travails and travels of space and time with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra — the only composer-driven ensemble of its kind in the known universe….
Program:
Roberto Becheri – War Poems
Harry Bernstein – Quintet for Strings
Alex Ness – Contrafacts
Stardust – Home
Kat Walsh – Three Dances for Four Winds
Erling Wold – April’s Apogee
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday October, 13th 2018
TICKETS: $25 sliding scale, general admission, available at the door.
————Interviews————
FAST AND THE FURIES
Sunday, April 15th, 2018SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“THE FAST AND THE FURIES”
Saturday May 5th, 2018 at 8 pm St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
$25 General, sliding scale available
Tickets are available at the door.
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2018
In these taxing times, the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra presents The Fast and The Furies — a breathtaking pursuit of musical truth and consequences, from the dire straits of Michael Kimbell‘s evocations of death and desire in Chaconne after Purcell’s “When I Am Laid in Earth” to Davide Verotta‘s brilliant and furious Sinfonietta. In counterpoint to John Beeman‘s animated Introduction and Dance set against Anton Webern’s seminal Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10. Of a more demonstrative nature will be a revival of Michael Cooke‘s Open Ended, where chance processes lead to phenomenal ends, while Mark Alburger channels the connections between medieval and modern in ROMAN DE FAVVEL: The Horse-Ass Novel, which simultaneously evokes the 14th-century “Babylon Captivity” and a certain non-statesman in contemporary Washington, D.C.
Program:
Mark Alburger – ROMAN DE FAVVEL, Op. 276
John Beeman – Introduction & Dance
Michael Cooke – Open Ended
Michael Kimbell – Chaconne after Purcell’s “When I Am Laid in Earth”
Davide Verotta – Sinfonietta
Anton Webern – Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May, 5th 2018
TICKETS: $25 sliding scale, general admission, available at the door.
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A FREE AND FRANK EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
Monday, October 16th, 2017SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“A FREE AND FRANK EXCHANGE OF IDEAS”
Saturday November 4th, 2017 at 8 pm St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
$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, October 15, 2017
In these days of cultural diversity, it’s time for A Free and Frank Exchange of Ideas, with San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra — an ultimate world tour of musical thought, from John Beeman‘s moving Ishi: Scene 4, The Demon Train (set in Northern California) to Erling Wold‘s electric Sinking of the Szent István, referencing the Austro-Hungarian battleship sunk in 1918. Between these, Nancie Kester evokes haunting Turkish Impressions, while Stardust takes a journey across time and space to a phantasmagorical ancient Egypt in True of Voice Finale. Rounding out the program are Harry Bernstein’s whimsical Stringet and Music Director Mark Alburger‘s nightmarish 2017, with a cast of politicos including Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Elizabeth Warren. Ignore fake news, and count on San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra to lead us towards A Free and Frank Exchange of Musical Ideas….
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday November, 4th 2017
TICKETS: $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
ALTERNATE FACTS AND LYING TOGETHER
Saturday, April 15th, 2017SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“ALTERNATE FACTS AND LYING TOGETHER”
Saturday May 6th, 2017 at 8 pm St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94118
$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 15, 2017
What is truth? We’re still wondering in San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming Alternate Facts and Lying Together, where, as Vladimir put it in Samuel Becket’s Waiting for Godot, “Nothing is certain when you’re about.” New York composer Leon Hyman will offer three string quartets as possible answers with Ubnucho / Yehi Hasdecha / Psalm 23, featuring instrumental lines rising to the heavens. Harry Bernstein and Stardust peradventure other possibilities via Quintetessence and True of Voice Entr’acte, as excellence and mysticism collide. Other modes of thought, from cynical to sincere, come to play for Italian expatriate Davide Verotta and Scott Sterling, who posit an energetic Felicitá? (Happiness?) and colorful Musical Portraits No. 2. Ultimately Music Director Mark Alburger will leave more questions unanswered in The Decameron: Seventh Day, Op. 262, recapitulating Medieval/Modern musical tales of deception and treachery, re-enforcing the seemingly-inevitable Alternative Facts and Lying Together….
CALENDAR EDITORS PLEASE NOTE:
WHO: San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
WHAT: New Music premieres for orchestra by Bay Area composers
WHERE: St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco
WHEN: 8pm Saturday May, 6th 2017
TICKETS: $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Thursday, September 15th, 2016SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents:
“IN UNCERTAIN TIMES”
Saturday October 15th, 2016 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 .
For more information, please call (628) 400-2144.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 15, 2016
Polka? Waltz? Rock? Even without the upcoming presidential election, we live In Uncertain Times, presented by San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra at 8:00pm, on Saturday, October 15th, in Park Presidio United Methodist Church, 4301 Geary Boulevard. Italian composer Roberto Becheri ponders a more hopeful future in I Costruttori (The Builders), with mezzo-soprano Liisa Davila and company creating a dazzling sonic edifice. Martha Stoddard and Lisa Scola Prosek check in respectively in a sonorous Song of the Loon (for this crazy present?) and Ubi Sunt (Where Have They Gone) — a lost-and-found of great beauty from her opera Lucaria. Davide Verotta‘s To the Point will directly address issues of the here-and-now, while Stardust is sure to dazzle with his True of Voice Overture. Mark Alburger wraps up the presentation with Variations on The Romanesca, a now-you-hear-it, now-you-don’t of spins on a thieving bass line that has been used by composers from Johnnes Pachelbel to John Lennon.  You never know what the creative minds of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra will come up with In Uncertain Times….
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, 15th 2016
TICKETS: $25 – general admission, sliding scale available for students and seniors, available at the door.
LANGUOROUS LIAISONS
Thursday, 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.