Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  6/4/2013

End Date:

  6/4/2013

Start Time:

  8:00 PM

End Time:

  10:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Curious Flights presents:

Curious Flights Presents `A Britten Celebration`

DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, June 4
8:00pm-10:00pm

LOCATION:
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street
San Francisco, CA, 94102
415-503-6275
http://www.sfcm.edu

COST/REGISTRATION:
$10-$15.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/367340

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.curiousflights.com
Email: info@curiousflights.com
Phone: 415-640-3165
Contact: Brenden Guy

DESCRIPTION:
Curious Flights celebrates Benjamin Britten`s centennial on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 with a program showcasing some of the composer`s rarely performed works. Marin Symphony Music Director Alasdair Neale will lead the West Coast Premiere of Britten`s Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, with Brenden Guy as soloist.

The early sketches for this concerto, written in 1941 and intended for American clarinetist Benny Goodman, were impounded by U.S. Customs and as a result, the concerto was never completed. In 1990, eminent British composer Colin Matthews revived and orchestrated the complete sketch of the first movement, before creating a three-movement representational concerto in 2007 based on sketches from two separate incomplete works written by Britten during the same time.

Tenor Brian Thorsett will perform Canticle III Op. 55: Still Falls the Rain alongside Kevin Rivard, Co-Principal Horn of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Principal Horn of the San Francisco Ballet, and pianist Ulysses Loken. In March 2010, Mr. Thorsett and Mr. Rivard performed Britten`s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with New Century Chamber Orchestra, with Lisa Hirsch of San Francisco Classical Voice writing that Thorsett brought "a rare combination of virtues to the work: a strikingly beautiful lyric tenor voice and the kind of musical intelligence that was characteristic of Pears` singing" and adding that "Rivard matched Thorsett in all this variety and beauty, and brought to the difficult horn part sovereign confidence and virtuosity."

Britten - Movement for Wind Sextet
Valinor Winds

Britten - Phantasy Quintet in F minor
Friction Quartet

Britten - Canticle III, Op. 55: Still Falls the Rain
Brian Thorsett, tenor
Kevin Rivard, horn
Ulysses Loken, piano

Britten, Matthews - Movements for a Clarinet Concerto
Curious Flights Symphony Orchestra
Alasdair Neale, conductor
Brenden Guy, clarinet

About Curious Flights:
Curious Flights is a new concert series presenting new and rarely performed classical works. Serving as a platform to breathe new life into forgotten works, Curious Flights provides audiences with an opportunity to experience interesting new music written by composers that are already well known those that are perhaps more obscure and contemporary composers living and working today.

Location:

  San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Room:

Address:

  50 Oak Street

Phone:

  415-640-3165

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA