Fiesta de Tambores - San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

Fri, Jun 2
8 PM
FREE

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco =

International Arts Festival 2006 present

FIESTA DE TAMBORES, featuring music by leading Latin American composers

Friday, June 2 at 8 PM

Brava Theater Center (2781 24th St., San Francisco)

FREE admission; become an SFCO Association Member and get priority =

reserved concert seating

MORE INFO: (415) 248-1640 or www.sfchamberorchestra.org

PROGRAM: =

Gabriela Ortiz: "Altar de Ne=F3n" - US premiere
Tania Le=F3n: "sin normas ajenas"
Silvestre Revueltas: "Sensemaya" and "Homenaje a Federico Garc=EDa Lorca"


The acclaimed San Francisco Chamber Orchestra returns to the San =

Francisco International Arts Festival with an exciting program of =

music by leading Latin American composers. Percussionists are the =

stars of this concert; marimbas, timpani, and a wide variety of =

instruments will quicken your pulse and keep your feet tapping. =

Music by Gabriela Ortiz, Tania Le=F3n, and Silvestre Revueltas.

Gabriela Ortiz was born in Mexico City, where she studied composition =

with Mario Lavista at the National Conservatory of Music, and =

Federico Ibarra at the National University of Mexico. Ms. Ortiz's =

1995 work, Altar de Ne=F3n, was written originally for the percussion =

quartet Tambuco and Camerata de las Am=E9ricas (a Mexico City-based =

chamber orchestra) and is a seminal work in Ms. Ortiz's catalogue. =

While the work was composed in 1995 and Ms. Ortiz has gone on to have =

successful collaborations with American music institutions, Altar de =

Ne=F3n has never been performed in the U.S. SFCO's performance will be =

the US premiere of this work.

Tania Le=F3n, born in Cuba, is a vital personality on today's music =

scene and is highly regarded as a composer and conductor recognized =

for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts =

organizations. Ms. Le=F3n is currently featured on Univision's =

"Orgullo Hispano" series, which celebrates living American Latinos. =

Commissioned by the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture in 1994, Tania =

Le=F3n's sin normas ajenas ("without another's norms") finds common =

ground between an astringent atonal style, complete with dense =

counterpoint and wildly zigzagging melodic lines, and Caribbean =

rhythms. SFCO's performance will mark the Bay Area premiere of this =

work.

Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) was a Mexican violinist, conductor, =

and composer who helped to create an original Mexican music based on =

indigenous folk styles. Revueltas was a highly original musician =

whose career was cut tragically short by, in Simon Wright's words, =

his own "hard-living, self-destructive character." Sensemaya =

(chamber orchestra version) is his most celebrated and often- =

performed work, based on the Afro-Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen's =

namesake poem, subtitled "Chant to Kill a Snake." The complex and =

dramatic Homenaje a Federico Garc=EDa Lorca was composed as a tribute =

to the memory of the murdered Spanish poet.

The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra is one of the premiere ensembles =

on today's musical scene. The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra was =

founded by conductor Adrian Sunshine in 1953, and led by Edgar Braun =

for more than forty years until his retirement in 2002. In January =

2002, Maestro Benjamin Simon became SFCO's new Music Director. =

Maestro Simon ushered in a new era of musical excellence with dynamic =

programming choices, and implemented the innovative admission-free =

policy to make classical music accessible to everyone. To learn more =

about the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, please visit their =

website: www.sfchamberorchestra.org.

Venue:

Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St.
San Francisco
415-248-1640
http://www.sfchamberorchestra.org

Additional Info:
-assoc.com
415-248-1640
http://www.sfchamberorchestra.org