Monday night's concert at Herbst Theatre was a memorable beginning to our 40th Anniversary Season - here's what some of our reviewers had to say about it.
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle:
One of the many ways of categorizing music is based on the relative importance it gives to motion - does the music take an active approach to rhythm, or is it content to stand still?
The five pieces on Monday's program by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players covered that gamut pretty well, beginning in near-stasis and gradually working up to a frenzy of activity. And the more the music moved, the more interesting and rewarding it became...
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The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) began their 40th Anniversary Season last night at Herbst Theatre with a program entitled Points in Recent History. Presumably the “recent history” was that of SFCMP itself, although the “points” did not appear to have been selected with any historical narrative in mind; and two of them could be said to occupy the “margins” of history, one at either end...
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Aaron Gervais, composer:
SFCMP kicked off its 40th season with a characteristically eclectic program that reminded me why the concert producer has been able to draw loyal subscribers for decades. The pieces on the program showed an appreciation for the phenomenon of the concert as a social event belonging to a specific community, and the concert reflected the eclectic spirit of American new music...
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