Monday, February 27, 2012

New and Unusual

Other Minds 17 is this week and has the usual spectacular lineup of experimental composers: Øyvind Torvund, Simon Steen-Andersen, Gloria Coates, Harold Budd, Ikue Mori, Lotta Wennakoski, John Kennedy, Tyshawn Sorey, and Ken Ueno. They're at the JCC on California Street....Volti sings music of Estrada, Esmail, Conte, Ruo, and Muehleisen in San Francisco, Mill Valley, and Berkeley, on March 2, 3, and 4; tickets are $25/$20/$10...Also opposite Volti and Other Minds, BluePrint New Music has works by Neil Rolnick, Stefan Cwik, and Philip Glass on March 3 at the SF Conservatory of Music....San Francisco Symphony has five programs in the American Mavericks series; three are symphonic, two chamber. Oh, they've added an upcoming organ concert to the mix because one of Mason Bates's pieces is on it. Those concerts are from March 4 to 18.

2 comments:

Michael said...

For June, SFS has also added Ligeti's Lux aeterna to the season-ending program that also has Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw and Beethoven's 9th.

Lisa Hirsch said...

Oh, cool, I didn't know. Yes, of course I have a ticket already. :)