Event Title:

Organization:

  Concert

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  12/8/2019

End Date:

  12/8/2019

Start Time:

  3:00 PM

End Time:

  4:30 PM

Event Info: 

  San Francisco Contemporary Music Players will host an event on Sunday, December 8, from 3-4:30 pm at The Women's Building in San Francisco's Mission District, featuring the U.S. premiere of a new work by composer Vivian Fung, with special guest artist Haruka Fujii. This event is a part of the Contemporary Players' annual In the Community series, which presents contemporary musical works in a fun, festive and welcoming atmosphere.

Vivian Fung, Bay Area resident and internationally renowned Canadian composer, has created a work with a strongly topical and urgent meditation about the beauty and importance of our natural resources. As California and the west coast continues to experience the effects of droughts and increasingly destructive wildfires, we pause for a moment of reflection, remembrance and communal gathering to consider the life-sustaining qualities of nature's most essential elemental force through Fung's recently composed piece for solo percussion, The Ice is Talking.

Premiered in the summer of 2018 at the Banff Centre in Alberta- itself situated in the midst of snow-capped mountain peaks and nearby retreating glacial flows in the Canadian Rockies- the piece utilizes taps and swishes on three blocks of ice 'to illustrate the beauty and fragility of our environment.' Augmented by electronic means, which might suggest in sideways fashion mankind's impact on the forces of nature, the piece weaves its thesis through the very act of performing on a medium that is ever so slowly melting away over the course of the performance itself.

We then open the door for group interaction and commentary through a communal piece called "How to (blank)," by composer and member of So Percussion Quartet Jason Hussein Treuting, where audience members are invited to join in creating music based in part on the day's news headlines (and, avid instrumentalists with portable instruments are invited to bring them!).

https://sfcmp.org/individual-tickets/?eid=34852

Location:

  The Women's Building

Room:

Address:

  3543 18th Street #8

Phone:

  415-633-8802

City:

  San Francisco

State/Province:

  CA