SFCMP rehearses Terry Riley's In CA collection of reviews from our April 4 concert:
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle:
A 40-year history as rich and diverse as that of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players isn't easily summed up in a single birthday program. But Monday's anniversary concert in Herbst Theatre covered at least a few of the bases, including pieces large and small...
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Stephen Smoliar, examiner.com:
Last night the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP) gave their 40th Anniversary Gala Concert in Herbst Theatre, celebrating their formation as a group on March 25, 1971...
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Looking ahead, our 2011-12 season has just been announced (and was mentioned on San Francisco Classical Voice) this week. There will be five concerts at Herbst Theatre, and five informal Contemporary Insights: Music and Conversation events at ODC Dance Commons. The season is entitled Zones of Intensity (a term coined by Edgard Varèse), and was programmed by newly-appointed Artistic Director and conductor Steven Schick with input from the musicians of the ensemble.
Highlights include: three world premieres commissioned by the ensemble from California-based composers Olly Wilson, Michelle Lou, and Edmund Campion; an hour-long piece by John Luther Adams; and significant works by Iannis Xenakis, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Salvatore Sciarrino, and others. In March 2012, Steven Schick will give the 20th anniversary performance of Brian Ferneyhough’s percussion solo Bone Alphabet, which was written for Schick and premiered by him in 1992.
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