Rhapsody: Music by Women Composers
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The concert will be live-streamed on YouTube for free (donations welcome): https://centerfornewmusic.com/event/rhapsody-music-by-women-composers-e4tt/
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San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
Following up on E4TT’s wildly successful concert of music by women composers at the start of the year, E4TT will begin 2021 on a similar note on January 30 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco with the group's most diverse concert ever, “Rhapsody: Music by Women Composers.” The program features two reprises of music from E4TT's COVID-foreshortened season, “Matrix”(2020),by beloved Bay Area composer Elinor Armer (b. 1939), also for soprano and piano, and set to texts by two other Bay Area icons, Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) and Rella Lossy (1944-1996) and "Rest These Hands" by Anna Clyne, plus works by Tania Leon, Jessie Montgomery, Missy Mazzoli, Claudia Montero, Caroline Shaw, Vivian Fung, Marti Epstein, Jennifer Higdon and the remarkable Polish composer, Grazyna Bacewicz: www.E4TT.org/rhapsody.html
"Matrix” (2020) by beloved Bay Area composer Elinor Armer (b. 1939), set to texts by Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018) and Rella Lossy (1944-1996); "Tumbao" for solo piano by Cuban-American composer Tania León (b. 1943); "Rhapsody No. 1" (2014) for solo violin by Metropolitan Opera/ Lincoln Center Theater New Works composer Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981); Buenos Aires in Tres by multiple-Latin Grammy winner Claudia Montero (1983); In manus tuas for solo cello by 2013 Pulitzer Prize composer Caroline Shaw (b. 1982); “Echo Dash” for violin and piano by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962); etudesby 2020 Guggenheim fellow Marti Epstein (b. 1958); plus works by Canadian composer Vivian Fung (b. 1975), Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980), 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives composer Anna Clyne (b. 1980), and Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969). More info: www.E4TT.org/rhapsody.html
