Join us for Sonic Harvest 25 to mark Aaron Copland's 125th birthday! Sunday, November 16, 7:30 at Berkeley Piano Club.
We welcome guest composers Ursula Kwong-Brown and Martin Rokeach, and are pleased to announce that Dan Flanagan has joined the contributing directors of Sonic Harvest.
A quick description of the concert while we are redoing this site:
Ann Callaway’s Tasmanian Blue will be premiered by Dan Flanagan, violin; Jeffrey LaDeur, piano, and horn TBA.
An aria “Well, Mr. Diary” from Martin Rokeach’s oratorio Bodies On the Line: the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike will be performed by tenor Chad Somers and pianist Jeffrey Sykes.
Dan Flanagan, violin and Jeffrey LaDeur, piano will perform Dan’s Nue aux Cheveux Roux: Hommage à Henner, (after the paintings of Jean-Jacques Henner) and will premiere Ursula Kwong-Brown’s Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory (after the painting by Georgia O'Keefe).
Dan offers two of his works for violin solo, An Animated Street in Autumn (after the painting by Jean-François Raffaëlli) and Hymn (after a drawing by Camille Pissarro).
Allen Shearer offers the premiere of an opera on a libretto by Claudia Stevens titled What Aaron Copland Said, with Chad Somers as Roy Cohn, Jason Sarten as Joseph McCarthy, the composer as Aaron Copland, and Claudia Stevens as narrator. With Jeffrey Sykes, piano.
Admission is $25 general, $15 students, payable at the door by cash or check.
Berkeley Piano Club, at 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley, is wheelchair accessible.
We welcome guest composers Ursula Kwong-Brown and Martin Rokeach, and are pleased to announce that Dan Flanagan has joined the contributing directors of Sonic Harvest.
A quick description of the concert while we are redoing this site:
Ann Callaway’s Tasmanian Blue will be premiered by Dan Flanagan, violin; Jeffrey LaDeur, piano, and horn TBA.
An aria “Well, Mr. Diary” from Martin Rokeach’s oratorio Bodies On the Line: the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike will be performed by tenor Chad Somers and pianist Jeffrey Sykes.
Dan Flanagan, violin and Jeffrey LaDeur, piano will perform Dan’s Nue aux Cheveux Roux: Hommage à Henner, (after the paintings of Jean-Jacques Henner) and will premiere Ursula Kwong-Brown’s Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory (after the painting by Georgia O'Keefe).
Dan offers two of his works for violin solo, An Animated Street in Autumn (after the painting by Jean-François Raffaëlli) and Hymn (after a drawing by Camille Pissarro).
Allen Shearer offers the premiere of an opera on a libretto by Claudia Stevens titled What Aaron Copland Said, with Chad Somers as Roy Cohn, Jason Sarten as Joseph McCarthy, the composer as Aaron Copland, and Claudia Stevens as narrator. With Jeffrey Sykes, piano.
Admission is $25 general, $15 students, payable at the door by cash or check.
Berkeley Piano Club, at 2724 Haste Street, Berkeley, is wheelchair accessible.
A Little About Sonic Harvest
Now in its 25th year, Sonic Harvest delivers vital new works combining music, poetry, and drama as well as instrumental chamber music. Contributing Directors Ann Callaway, Dan Flanagan, Peter Josheff, Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens present new and recent work to be performed in the annual fall festival, in which they often appear as performers along with some of the finest singers, instrumentalists and conductors in the Bay Area. Admission is affordable. Programs include guest composers and embrace a range of styles. All concert items, whether complete works or portions of a work in progress, are given expert, polished performances before enthusiastic audiences. Many listeners return year after year, eager to partake of the current “crop” of pieces. Sonic Harvest is the longest-standing new music series in Berkeley.
Sonic Harvest is a fiscally-sponsored affiliate of InterMusic SF, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for those who create, share, and love the art of small ensemble music.
Sonic Harvest is a fiscally-sponsored affiliate of InterMusic SF, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for those who create, share, and love the art of small ensemble music.