ADORNO Gallery Sessions "The Avant-Garde and Beyond"

Sat, May 6
7pm
FREE

The ADORNO Ensemble will host a podcast show to be lead by radio host
and writer Todd Spencer. Spencer has been widely heard on NPR's
Living on Earth and the California Report, and is contributer to
Salon.com and Rollingstones.com. The May 6th show, "The Avant-garde
and Beyond" will be a live performance by ADORNO with an artist talk
on the European Avant-garde music and its many departures. The
program will feature a variety of music from the European avant-
garde composer Arnold Schoenberg to the Blues style of American
composer Derek Bermel and the Peruvian-influenced music of composer
Gabriela Lena Frank. As special guest, Ms. Frank will join ADORNO and
Spencer to talk about her extensive work in blending Peruvian
traditional music with western composition. Frank's current work
includes collaborations with renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and
the Silk Road Project, the Kronos Quartet, and the Chamber Music
Society at Lincoln Center.


The show will discuss the varying degrees of diversions from the
avant-garde style and what composers are discovering as their
inspiration in the 21st century. Audiences attending the live concert
at Varnish can join in on the discussions with the artists as well as
engage with other listeners. For those that can not attend, the
concert will be recorded live to be hosted as a podcast on ADORNO's
website, where people locally and world-wide can listen and post
messages relating to the show.

Additionally, Varnish is also celebrating its 3rd anniversary with
their exhibit "3 to the 3rd". An artist from the gallery will also
join in on the show's discussion. As always, ADORNO's Gallery
Sessions are FREE.

Venue:

Varnish Fine Art Gallery
77 Natoma St.
San Francisco
415-222-6131
http://varnishfineart.com

77 Natoma St. (Between 1st and 2nd St.) in SF SOMA

Additional Info:

415-682-9946
http://www.adornoensemble.org