Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:30 p.m.
ODC Dance Commons, San Francisco

Each Contemporary Insights event focuses on a single piece from the following Monday’s concert. Composers and musicians talk about the piece, and the musicians demonstrate parts of it. After performing the work in its entirety, the musicians elicit reactions, answer questions, and talk with the audience.
The audience is invited to stay for wine and hors d’oeuvres afterwards.

ODC Dance Commons
351 Shotwell Street, between 17th and 18th Streets
Near 16th Street BART
Parking lot nearby

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Program:
Ronald Bruce Smith, new work (2010)
For flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, violin, and cello. Guest conductor, moderator: Donato Cabrera. Guest speaker: Ronald Bruce Smith.

Ronald Bruce Smith joins the ensemble for a performance and discussion of his new work, commissioned by SFCMP. Hailed by the New York Times for his “fresh and lustrous” music, Smith is a composer worth following. His most recent work presented by the ensemble – “Five Pieces for Guitar and Electronics,” performed by David Tanenbaum in February 2009 – was a favorite of audiences and critics alike.

$10 general, $5 students/seniors.
Tickets are available with a subscription or at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Questions? Call 415-278-9566 or email info@sfcmp.org.

Funded in part by: the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Canada Council for the Arts.