Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Each Contemporary Insights event focuses on a single piece from the following Monday’s subscription concert.  Composers and musicians talk about the piece, and the musicians demonstrate parts of it.  After performing the work in its entirety, the musicians will elicit reactions, answer questions, and dialog with the audience. 

Share wine and hors d’oeuvres afterwards.

Sunday, December 7, 2008 4 pm
Presidio Interfaith Chapel, San Francisco

Program: Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans maître for mezzo-soprano, flute, guitar, viola and three percussion

Widely regarded as Boulez’s first masterpiece, this celebrated, rarely performed work uses familiar Western instruments to create Eastern sounds that would have been exotic to Boulez’s first audiences. Music Director David Milnes and the ensemble, along with guest mezzo-soprano Janna Baty, perform and discuss this piece in the beautifully designed and acoustically superb Presidio Interfaith Chapel.

Presidio Interfaith Chapel:
130 Fisher Loop, Presidio
www.sanfranciscoweddings.org

To guarantee your place at this event, please order on our tickets page or contact our office for a reservation by December 5. Seating is limited. Phone: 415-278-9566. Email: info@sfcmp.org.

Suggested donation: $10 per event.