11/5, This Is What It Means – LCCE and the SF Girls Chorus (San Francisco)

LEFT COAST AT THE CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL: CALIFORNIA VOICES

“This Is What It Means”

LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS

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.

Program includes:

Ursula Kwong-Brown – “I see you, I hear you”

Gabriela Lena Frank – “Picaflor from Two Mountain Songs”

Gabriela Lena Frank – “Canto para California”

Lisa Bielawa – “Forest” from “Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser”

Nicolas Lell Benavides – “A bird came down the walk” (Pathways mentor)

Gabriella Smith – “Carrot Revolution”

Pauline Oliveros – “Tree/Peace”

Caroline Shaw – “Dolce cantavi”

Hildegard of Bingen – “O Virtus Sapientiae”

Sarah Gibson – New Commission TBA WORLD PREMIERE

Gabriela Lena Frank – “Zapatos de chincha”

Reena Esmail – “The love of thousands”

This concert is generously sponsored by Susan Shalit and Mary Logger.

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.

$15.00-$35.00.

Presented by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

https://www.leftcoastensemble.org/left-coast-events-calendar/2023/11/5/voices-sf 415-617-5223