Tradition, Influence, Evolution

Monday, February 28, 2011 8:00 p.m.
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave. at McAllister, San Francisco
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:00 p.m.

Guest conductor, Donato Cabrera.
Special guests: Du Yun, Brian Current,
Ronald Bruce Smith.

Program: György Ligeti, Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982)
Du Yun, Vicissitudes, No. 1 (2002)
     David Tanenbaum, steel string guitar
Brian Current, Strata (2010, commission, world premiere)
Ronald Bruce Smith, new work (2010, commission, world premiere)

$30 General, $25 Senior, $10 Student
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Donato Cabrera, Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, conducts the ensemble in two world premieres, and a recent work by Chinese-American composer Du Yun, whose style is a frenetic hybrid of the traditional and the modern, East and West. György Ligeti’s masterpiece for violin, French horn, and piano will be performed by Roy Malan, Lawrence Ragent, and Julie Steinberg.

Funded in part by: the National Endowment for the Arts; the Aaron Copland Fund for Contemporary Music; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.