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Monday, March 26, 2012 | 7 PM
Music and Conversation with Michael Tilson Thomas
Greene Space
Program
In a live video webcast from WQXR’s performance venue, The Greene Space, WQXR’s David Garland and Q2 Music's Nadia Sirota will host an evening with Michael Tilson Thomas, with featured guests John Adams and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. The event will be webcast live on Q2 Music, broadcast live on 105.9 FM in New York and with live video streaming on wqxr.org/q2music/.
Related Activities:
Q2 Music’s month-long programming will also include pieces by American Maverick composers, with introductions to their works by composers David Del Tredici, Michael Gordon, Phil Kline, David Lang, Angelica Negron, Ingram Marshall, Missy Mazzoli, and Steve Reich; interviews from the WQXR and WNYC archives with iconic Maverick composers such as John Cage, Lukas Foss, Meredith Monk, and Terry Riley; insights about the music from MTT; and curated playlists from prominent composers and musicians outside the standard Western Classical tradition. Programming will be hosted by guest hosts including Mary Rowell, former ETHEL String Quartet violinist, and Joel Sachs, conductor of The New Juilliard Ensemble; Professor of Music History, Chamber Music, and New Music Performance at The Juilliard School; and biographer of Henry Cowell. Specialty shows with American Mavericks guests, American Mavericks videos, and videos from MTT will be hosted on the WQXR/Q2 Music site as well.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | 8 PM
San Francisco Symphony
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Performers
- San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor - St. Lawrence String Quartet
·· Geoff Nuttall, Violin
·· Scott St. John, Violin
·· Lesley Robertson, Viola
·· Christopher Costanza, Cello - Joan La Barbara, Vocalist
- Meredith Monk, Vocalist
- Jessye Norman, Soprano
- Jesse Stiles, Electronics
- Yuval Sharon, Stage Director
Program
- CAGE Song Books
- COWELL Synchrony
- JOHN ADAMS Absolute Jest for String Quartet and Orchestra (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the San Francisco Symphony, with support from the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Works of Music.)
- VARÈSE Amériques
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The San Francisco Symphony begins its American Mavericks residency at Carnegie Hall with a spectacular, ground-shaking ode to our country from the 1920s by a Frenchman who found creative sustenance right here in the Big Apple and the New York premiere of John Adams’s Absolute Jest.
Also on the program is music from John Cage’s enigmatic Song Books with Jessye Norman, Meredith Monk, and Joan La Barbara. Imagine video screens pulsing with images that reinforce action. Envision three houses with cut-away walls, revealing the three divas. They explore three Cage worlds: one of theater, one populated by avant-garde French composer Erik Satie and Dada icon Marcel Duchamp, and another of Cage's idol Henry David Thoreau. The action is directed by Yuval Sharon, who has staged productions with New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, and many other companies. But no two performances are the same, for the singers act on the moment’s inspiration, guided by Cage’s prompts. “Leave the stage by going up (flying) or by going down through a trap door,” Cage directs in one number. “Return in the same way wearing an animal’s head.” “Breathe as though you had lost your voice.” Prepare for fractured settings from Thoreau: “Wasps are building summer squashes, saw a fish hawk, when I hear this both bushes and trees are thinly leaved.”