This Is What It Means – LCCE & the SF Girls Chorus
$35 ($15 student, $5 Arts Access)
Gabriela Lena Frank — Two Mountain Songs ("II. Picaflor Esmeralda")
Gabriela Lena Frank — Canto para California
Lisa Bielawa — Vireo Canons and Chorale
Lisa Bielawa — Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser ("Forest")
Nicolas Lell Benavides — A bird came down the walk
Gabriella Smith — Carrot Revolution
Caroline Shaw — Dolce cantavi
Hildegard von Bingen — O Virtus Sapientiae ("O Strength of Wisdom")
Sarah Gibson — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
Gabriela Lena Frank — "Zapatos de Chincha" from Hilos
Reena Esmail — The Love of Thousands
Left Coast and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival.
We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolas Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.
Left Coast presents two programs as part of the inaugural California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, which is happening throughout the state from November 3-19th: "This Is What It Means" and "Art Song and Keyboard Music of California." We present more than twelve different Californian composers and span more than a century of music. How we listen to nature in a changing world is a current which runs through these concerts.
2 performances:
- Saturday, November 4, 7:30pm at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
- Sunday, November 5, 4pm at San Francisco Conservatory of Music