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Sfcmp Performances At The Crossroads Series Guerrilla Sounds: Julius Eastman’s Legacy at SFJAZZ Center
Courtesy of SFCMP Media | Posted on March 20, 2019
Where
SFJAZZ Center
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
866.920.5299
When
Fri, May 10, 2019
5:30 pm
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Musicians
Myra Melford
pianoAbout
In our at the CROSSROADS Series, we celebrate together the work of legacy composers alongside cutting-edge voices from across generations: By meeting at these generational crossroads we reveal how the latest works are grounded in timeless questions.
Inspired by Julius Eastman’s politically powerful and sonically persuasive works, we launch into our cross-generational "at the CROSSROADS Series" with two major commissions. One is a new work by Sidney Corbett, an American composer living in Germany best known for his theatrical and emotionally powerful compositions. Also featured is an SFCMP commission from Bay Area composer, pianist, and improviser Myra Melford, featuring herself as improvising piano soloist with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. SFCMP will premiere a new piece by exciting Brazilian-Californian composer Fernanda Aoki Navarro, while LJ White offers his own version of the interplay between freedom and structure in a work for solo violin and electronics. SFCMP also sponsors its 3rd Annual SF Search for young composers—this time writing for trios of players drawn from the instrumental forces for Myra Melford’s premiere and inspired by the works of Eastman—to complete the multi-generational portrait....