'Mother and Child' (1943, arr. Timothy Holley) by William Grant Still (b.1895-1978). Performed at E4TT: Mothers & Daughters, Sunday, March 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m at Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez St., San Francisco.
E4TT is:
Nanette McGuinness, soprano
Anne Lerner, cello
Dale Tsang, piano
David Garner, composer
GUEST Artists:
Ilana Blumberg, violin and
Laura Reynolds, English horn
"Mothers & Daughters" Program:
Pre-concert composer talk.
"Matrix" for soprano and piano by Bay Area favorite Elinor Armer(b. 1939), set to poems by two other Bay Area icons, Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) and Rella Lossy (1944-1996).
"The Light Within the Dark" for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, and piano, by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner (b. 1954), to poems from Gripe Water by Gini Savage (1944-2018) and Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932).
"Mother Love" for soprano, violin, and piano to poems about Persephone and Demeter by Pulitzer-winning, U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove by emerging composer and recent SF Conservatory of Music graduate Brennan Stokes (b. 1990). PLUS "Rest These Hands" (2014) for solo violin by exciting Grammy-winning composer, based on a poem by her mother "Anna Clyne (b. 1980). "Mother and Child" (1942, arr. for cello and piano) by African-American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978). Ji-Dong-Nuo (2007) for piano by American Academy of Arts and Letters Chinese-American Chen Yi (b. 1953). Espenbaum from Die eichne Tuer for soprano, English horn, violin, cello, and piano by by E4TT composer and co-founder David Garner (b. 1954), from our upcoming 2020 release of "Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan.”
*"Mothers & Daughters" is made possible with funds from the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts and also by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Event: e4tt.org/mothers.html
Video Production : MisterWA.com
30 апр 2020
