Saturday, December 31, 2011

December 31 - New Music New Year's Bash


Mark Alburger and Harriet March Page
request the honor of your presence
at a year-end concert-party!
(Fresh Voices XI
Festival of New Works)

New
Music
New
Year's
Bash
10pm-12:00midnight
December 31, 2011

Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA

A benefit for Goat Hall and SF Composers Orchestra


Nancy Bloomer Deussen's Adirondack Morn;


John Bilotta's Yeats Songs, with Tristan Robben; Philip Freihofner's Where My Breathing Whispers (Diane Frank), with Eliza O'Malley and Kelsey Walsh;


Ji Yoo's performance of Motherless Child;


Kurt Weill's Lonely House (Annemarie Ballinger) and  


First Threepenny Finale (Harriet March Page);


Martha Stoddard's Quartet for Two Oboes and Two Bassoons and Duo for Bassoons (with Philip Freihofner, Mark Alburger, and Michael and


Lori Garvey);


Dylan Greengard's Bullfight with Self, The Plight of Josef K., and  


The Wrath of Poseidon (the latter in which the composer-guitarist is joined by violinist Asuka Yanai;


Mark Alburger's Business As Usual and


Rozalina Gutman's Music.  We wrap up official proceedings at 11:45pm, toasting the coming year with a theme-and-variations playlist of multiple Auld Lange Synes found online including --

Andrew L
Andre Rieu
A Beautiful Lotus
Harry Koizumi
Jack Ingram
Mairi Campbell and Dave Francis
Anne McGinty
Kenny G
Alfred Publications

-- counting down to the witching hour, shouting,


dancing, and singing Christmas Carrels - A: Lang Syne.