Music and Conversation: Ronald Bruce Smith's "Four Movements"

Dec. 13, 2010 - PRLog -- CALENDAR LISTING:
WHO: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
WHAT: Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation – Ronald Bruce Smith’s Four Movements
WHEN: Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: ODC Dance Commons, 351 Shotwell St. at 17th, San Francisco
PRICE: $10 general, $5 students/seniors
TICKETS: At the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.
INFO: http://www.sfcmp.org, 415-278-9566

Ronald Bruce Smith’s Four Movements (for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, violin and cello) each contain distinct musical structures: shimmering Waves, a doleful Caoidh (Lament), a playful Scherzo, and November, utilizing evocative extended techniques.  Mr. Smith (b. 1961) teaches composition at Northeastern University in Boston.  He studied with Tristan Murail at IRCAM in Paris, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has been a visiting composer at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and an artist-in-residence at Canada’s Banff Center for the Arts.

The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation series is devoted to breaking down barriers between listeners and performers to enhance understanding and appreciation of new music. This piece will be performed on the following evening, February 28, at Herbst Theatre as part of the ensemble’s concert Tradition, Influence, Evolution.

This concert is underwritten in part by: the Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This season’s concerts are funded in part by: San Francisco Hotel Tax/Grants for the Arts Program; National Endowment for the Arts; the Canada Council for the Arts; Aaron Copland Fund for Music; Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, SACEM and the Florence Gould Foundation; the Fromm Music Foundation; Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation; William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Istituto Italiano di Cultura; the Ross McKee Foundation; the Ontario Arts Council; Bernard Osher Foundation; Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council; Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco; San Francisco Foundation; Wells Fargo Foundation; and many individual donors.

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The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, an ensemble of highly skilled musicians, has performed, commissioned and recorded innovative new music of exceptional interest since 1971. This is their 40th Anniversary Season of performances.