Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation

Sunday, April 3, 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:
Beat Furrer, Spur (1988)
For piano and string quartet.
Guest conductor, moderator: Sara Jobin.

Beat Furrer has a gift for bringing audiences to the edge of their seats. In Spur, repetitive figures layer over one another, starting and stopping abruptly in a virtuosic flurry of extended techniques. Suspenseful, frenetic, delicate, and almost psychedelic at times, the music builds and releases, dropping us when we least expect it. The Swiss-born Furrer, founder of the influential ensemble Klangforum Wien, is one of the great compositional voices in Europe today.

$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: Prohelvetia, the Swiss Arts Council; and the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco.