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Welcome  Tonight  Earplay  returns  to  glorious  Herbst  Theatre  to  open  our  32nd  season.    Our  focus  composer  for  this  season  is  Toru  Takemitsu,  and  we  are  very  grateful  to  the  Japan  Foundation  of  Los  Angeles  for  their  generous  support  of  this  concert.    In  the  beautiful  acoustics  of  Herbst  we  commemorate  the  50th  anniversary  of  Takemitsu’s  November  Steps,  the  lynchpin  piece  that  launched  his  international  stardom  in  the  world  of  western  classical  music.    Tonight  Brenda  Tom  plays  his  youthful  Romance  for  solo  piano,  his  first  published  work,  and  Tod  Brody  performs  his  Air  for  solo  flute,  his  last  published  work.    In  addition,  we'll  hear  vibrant  chamber  music  by  American  composers,  including  the  world  premiere  of  Earplay  commission  Fray  by  Laurie  San  Martin  and  Earplayer  Peter  Josheff’s  Sextet,  complementing  Takemitsu’s  legacy  of  extraordinary  music  created  by  extraordinary  composers  and  played  by  extraordinary  players.      We  hope  you  will  join  us  for  a  pre-­‐concert  conversation  with  composers  Peter  Josheff  and  Laurie  San  Martin.    And  please  linger  after  the  concert  to  chat  with  composers,  Earplayers,  and  Earplay  board  members  over  refreshments  and  a  glass  of  wine.    Thanks  to  your  enthusiastic  support,  Earplay  will  continue  to  commission  exciting  new  works  and  to  present  passionate  performances  of  vibrant,  bold  new  music.    And  spread  the  word:  don’t  miss  Earplay’s  next  concert  on  March  20,  2017  at  ODC  Theater,  and  please  don't  forget  to  bring  a  friend!    

— Earplay  Board  of  Directors    

   Board of Directors Terrie  Baune,  musician  representative  Bruce  Bennett  Mary  Chun,  conductor    Richard  Festinger  Larissa  Koehler  May  Luke,  co-­‐chair  Stephen  Ness,  secretary/treasurer  Ellen  Ruth  Rose  Laura  Rosenberg,  co-­‐chair    

Staff Lori  Zook,  executive  director  Terrie  Baune,  scheduler  Renona  Brown,  accountant    David  Ogilvy,  sound  recordist  Ellen  Ruth  Rose,  artistic  coordinator   Advisory Board Chen  Yi  Richard  Felciano  William  Kraft  Kent  Nagano  Wayne  Peterson  

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 Monday,  January  30,  2017  at  7:30  p.m.  

Herbst  Theatre  

Earplay Season 32: Air, Wind, Water

Concert 1: Air

 Earplayers

 Terrie  Baune,  violin  Tod  Brody,  flutes    

Mary  Chun,  conductor  Peter  Josheff,  clarinets  Thalia  Moore,  cello  Ellen  Ruth  Rose,  viola  Brenda  Tom,  piano  

   

Pre-­‐concert  conversation  at  6:45  p.m.:  Bruce  Christian  Bennett,  moderator  

with  composers  Peter  Josheff  and  Laurie  San  Martin  

   

 Please  power  down  your  cellphone  before  the  performance  (do  not  just  silence  it!).    No  photography,  videography,  or  sound  recording  is  permitted.      Programs  are  subject  to  change  without  notice.  

 Earplay’s  season  is  made  possible  through  generous  funding  from  the  Aaron  Copland  Fund  for  Music,  the  Alice  M.  Ditson  Fund  of  Columbia  University,  the  Ann  and  Gordon  Getty  Foundation,  the  William  and  Flora  Hewlett  Foundation,  the  Japan  Foundation  Los  Angeles,  the  Ross  McKee  Foundation,  San  Francisco  Grants  for  the  Arts,  the  Zellerbach  Family  Foundation,  and  generous  donors  like  you.  

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Program Toru Takemitsu Romance (1948-­‐1949)  

Brenda  Tom    

Elena Ruehr Blackberries  (2007)  Peter  Josheff  Thalia  Moore  Brenda  Tom    

Laurie San Martin Fray (2016)  World  premiere;  Earplay  commission  in  three  movements  Terrie  Baune  Ellen  Ruth  Rose  Thalia  Moore    

Toru Takemitsu Air  (1995)  Tod  Brody    

INTERMISSION  

Tonia Ko Plush  Earth  in  Four  Pieces  (2014)  West  Coast  premiere  I.  Part      II.  Jewel      III.  Part      IV.  Mud    Terrie  Baune  Brenda  Tom    

Peter Josheff Sextet  (2010-­‐2012)  in  two  movements  Tod  Brody  Peter  Josheff  Terrie  Baune  Ellen  Ruth  Rose  Thalia  Moore  Brenda  Tom  Mary  Chun  

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Program Notes Romance  (1948-­‐1949)  by  Toru  Takemitsu  for  piano    Romance  (1949)  was  composed  when  Takemitsu  was  only  nineteen  and  is  his  earliest  surviving  piano  work.  Marked  Adagio  sostenuto,  nobile  e  funebre,  this  short  piece  might  initially  sound  as  if  it  had  been  written  by  a  French  Impressionist  dabbling  with  Eastern  exoticism.  Rather,  quite  the  opposite,  it  is  an  Eastern  composer  dabbling  with  French  Impressionism.  Though  that  is  far  too  trite.  Listening  with  a  more  sensitive  ear,  we  hear  Japanese  music  expressing  itself  beautifully  in  a  Western  paradigm,  and  it  may  be  partly  this  quiet  tension  that  captures  one's  interest.    The  phrasing  follows  more  the  breath  than  the  heartbeat.  The  melodic-­‐harmonic  world  is  born  out  of  a  minor  pentatonic  mode  that  you  might  hear  in  music  for  shakuhachi  flute.    A  somber,  forlorn  character  of  the  music  is  sustained  through  most  of  the  piece.  The  eruption  of  a  marcato,  fortissimo  section  approaching  the  end  of  the  piece  breaks  the  calm  and  exposes  the  intensity  of  the  underlying  tension  that  had  been  present  since  the  beginning.  This  section  concludes  with  a  stark  "anti-­‐climax",  octave  As  played  piano  subito  in  both  hands  at  the  extreme  ends  of  the  keyboard.    Romance  then  ends  with  a  varied  reprise  of  the  opening  fading  away  with  a  quietly  tolling  sonority.      

—  B.  B.    

◆    Toru  Takemitsu  was  born  in  Tokyo  on  October  8th,  1930.  His  musical  language  is  born  out  of  a  synthesis  of  varied  styles  and  influences  ranging  from  traditional  Japanese  music  to  Western  classical  and  avant-­‐garde  music.  He  came  to  international  attention  when  Igor  Stravinsky  hailed  his  Requiem  for  Strings  (1957)  as  a  masterpiece.  His  success  abroad  was  consolidated  over  

the  following  decade  with  such  scores  as  November  Steps  (1967),  a  commission  from  the  New  York  Philharmonic  that  broke  new  ground  by  including  indigenous  Japanese  instruments  within  a  Western  symphony  orchestra.    

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Takemitsu  began  composing  as  a  teenager  after  serving  as  a  conscript  in  the  Japanese  military  at  the  end  of  World  War  II.  Later  in  his  life  he  recalled,  "I  began  [writing]  music  attracted  to  music  itself  as  one  human  being.  Being  in  music  I  found  my  raison  d'être  as  a  man.  After  the  war,  music  was  the  only  thing.  Choosing  to  be  in  music  clarified  my  identity."    During  the  American  post-­‐war  occupation  of  Japan,  Takemitsu  was  employed  by  the  U.S.  Armed  Forces,  but  then  became  ill.  Hospitalized  and  bed-­‐ridden,  he  took  the  opportunity  to  listen  to  as  much  Western  music  as  he  could  on  the  U.S.  Armed  Forces  Network.  French  music  held  a  special  attraction,  especially  the  work  of  Debussy  and  Messiaen,  whose  influence  can  be  detected  right  from  his  earliest  scores.  While  deeply  affected  by  his  study  of  Western  music,  he  simultaneously  felt  a  need  to  distance  himself  from  the  traditional  music  of  his  native  Japan.  He  explained  much  later  that  for  him,  Japanese  traditional  music  "recalled  the  bitter  memories  of  war."    One  might  also  hear  the  influence  of  Webern  in  Takemitsu's  use  of  silence,  and  hints  of  Cage's  musical  philosophy,  though  his  overall  style  is  always  uniquely  his  own.  Takemitsu  believed  in  music  as  a  means  of  ordering  or  contextualizing  everyday  sound  in  order  to  make  it  meaningful  or  comprehensible.  His  philosophy  of  "sound  as  life"  inspired  the  incorporation  of  natural  sounds  in  his  music,  as  well  as  his  desire  to  both  juxtapose  and  attempt  to  reconcile  opposing  elements,  such  as  Orient  and  Occident,  sound  and  silence,  and  tradition  and  innovation.    With  the  formation  of  the  Jikken  Kobo  (Experimental  Workshop)  to  promote  and  perform  mixed-­‐media  art  works,  Takemitsu's  career  really  began  to  take  off.  At  the  forefront  of  musical  experimentation  during  the  1960s  and  early  1970s,  he  explored  the  use  of  improvisation,  graphic  notation,  unusual  combinations  of  instruments,  and  even  recorded  sounds  in  his  composition.  He  subsequently  composed  in  a  more  approachable  but  hardly  less  individual  idiom  that  fuses  an  essentially  Japanese  ethos  with  Western  technique.  Although  he  wrote  the  scores  for  almost  a  hundred  films  (such  as  Kurosawa’s  acclaimed  Ran)  and  published  twenty  books,  his  reputation  rests  largely  on  his  extensive  catalog  of  orchestral  and  chamber  music.  He  passed  away  in  Tokyo  on  February  20th,  1996.      

—  B.  B.    

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Blackberries  (2007)  by  Elena  Ruehr  for  clarinet,  cello,  and  piano    

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Blackberries  is  titled  after  a  poem  written  by  my  daughter  Sophie  at  age  10.  The  piece  was  written  for  the  Eero  Trio.  

—  E.  R.    

Blackberries  by  Sophie  Ruehr  

 My  hands  fumble  with  the  sticky  berries  as  I  plunk  them  into  the  small  container.  My  little  fingers  come  to  a  juicy  ripe  berry,  I  stick  it  into  my  mouth  as  quickly  as  I  can  before  my  mother  or  father  can  see.  My  sneakiness  does  not  help  me  for  the  purple  juice  is  all  over  my  lips,  cheeks,  and  chin.  The  sun  is  high  up  in  the  summer  sky,  and  no  clouds  roam.  The  wind  is  meager  as  it  tosses  my  long  hair.  The  marsh  reeds  and  bog  behind  the  black  berry  bushes  is  invisible.  The  Cape  Cod  air  is  sweet  with  salt  and  ocean  scents.  A  sea  gull  cries  above  the  marsh,  looking  for  oysters  to  pry  open.  Another  bird,  a  hawk  perhaps,  circles  an  area  not  far  from  where  I  stand.  The  cattails  whip  about  as  suddenly  the  wind  becomes  a  rush.  My  mother  calls,  and  I  scurry  out  of  the  brambles,  trying  not  to  get  pricked  by  a  sharp  thorn.  I  come  to  my  bike  and  we  set  off  down  the  dirt  road  to  our  little  cottage  some  ways  away.  

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 Composer  Elena  Ruehr  says  of  her  music  “the  idea  is  that  the  surface  be  simple,  the  structure  complex.”  An  award  winning  faculty  member  at  MIT,  she  has  also  been  a  Guggenheim  Fellow  and  a  fellow  at  Harvard’s  Radcliffe  Institute  and  composer-­‐in-­‐residence  with  the  Boston  Modern  Orchestra  Project,  which  performed  and  recorded  her  major  orchestral  works  (O’Keeffe  Images,  BMOP  Sound)  as  well  as  the  opera  Toussaint  Before  the  

Spirits  (Arsis).  Three  of  her  six  string  quartets  were  commissioned  by  the  Cypress  String  Quartet,  who  have  recorded  How  She  Danced:  String  Quartets  of  Elena  Ruehr.    Her  quartets  have  also  been  performed  by  the  Biava,  Borromeo,  Lark,  ROCO  and  Shanghai  string  quartets.    Her  other  recordings  include  Averno  (Avie  with  the  Trinity  Choir,  Julian  Wachner  conducting),  Jane  Wang  considers  the  Dragonfly  (Albany),  Lift  (Avie),  and  Shimmer  (Metamorphosen  Chamber  Ensemble  on  Albany).    Her  work  has  been  described  as  “sumptuously  scored  and  full  of  soaring  melodies”  (The  New  York  Times),  and  “unspeakably  gorgeous”  (Gramophone).    Her  website  is  elenaruehr.com.  

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Fray  (2016)  by  Laurie  San  Martin  for  violin,  viola,  and  cello  World  premiere;  Earplay  commission  in  three  movements    Last  spring,  while  listening  to  Terrie,  Ellen  and  Thalia  read  through  undergraduate  compositions,  I  felt  a  pang  of  nostalgia.  I  had  worked  closely  with  these  three  musicians  while  co-­‐directing  the  Empyrean  Ensemble  from  2001-­‐2009.  So  when  Ellen  approached  me  a  few  weeks  later  about  writing  a  piece  for  Earplay,  I  was  delighted  for  the  opportunity.  I  even  had  old  sketches  that  I  had  created  in  years  past  for  a  playful  piece  that  would  juxtapose  three  distinct  personalities.  These  past  few  months  turned  out  to  be  a  challenging  time  for  getting  any  kind  of  work  done,  including  writing  music.  I  stole  some  time  away  from  my  internet  browser,  however,  and  gradually  pieced  together  this  project.  It  turned  into  something  much  darker  and  more  amorphous  than  what  I  had  intended.  Fray  is  in  three  brief  movements.  Without  giving  too  much  away,  I  would  say  that  that  this  piece  is  about  exploring  disparate  moments,  sounds,  and  ideas,  and  investigating  what  direction  these  fragmentary  shreds  of  music  might  take.  Many  of  the  loose  ends  from  the  first  two  movements  come  together  in  the  last  movement.  However,  not  everything  is  resolved.  There  is  a  sense  of  the  stitching  being  left  loose  at  the  end  of  the  piece.    

—  L.  S.  M.    

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Laurie  San  Martin  writes  music  that  creates  a  compelling  narrative  by  exploring  the  intersection  between  texture  and  line.  Critics  have  described  her  music  as  exuberant,  colorful,  forthright,  high  octane,  tumultuous,  intricate,  intense  and  rumbly.  She  writes  concert  music  for  chamber  ensembles  and  orchestra  

but  has  also  written  for  theater,  dance  and  video.  Her  music  has  been  performed  across  the  United  States,  Europe  and  Asia.  Most  recently  she  has  enjoyed  writing  for  virtuoso  soloists  including  violinists  Hrafnhildur  Atladottir  and  Gabriela  Díaz,  percussionists  Chris  Froh  and  Mayumi  Hama,  Haleh  Abghari  (soprano),  Yi  Ji-­‐Young  (Korean  gayageum)  and  David  Russell  (cello).    Laurie  has  worked  with  numerous  ensembles  including  the  San  Francisco  Contemporary  Music  Players,  Berlin  PianoPercussion,  Left  Coast  Chamber  Ensemble,  eighth  blackbird,  SF  Chamber  Orchestra,  the  Lydian  Quartet,  Magnetic  South  Ensemble,  Washington  Square  Contemporary  Chamber  

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Players,  and  others.  Recipient  of  the  2016  Guggenheim  Fellowship,  she  has  also  received  awards  from  the  Fromm  Foundation,  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Letters,  League  of  Composers-­‐ISCM,  the  International  Alliance  for  Women  in  Music,  and  the  ASCAP  Morton  Gould  Young  Composer’s  Awards.  As  a  composition  fellow,  she  has  attended  the  MacDowell  Colony,  the  Montalvo  Artist  Residency,  Yaddo,  Atlantic  Center  for  the  Arts,  Norfolk  Contemporary  Chamber  Music  Festival,  and  the  Composers  Conference  at  Wellesley  College.    Laurie  holds  a  Ph.D.  from  Brandeis  University  in  Theory  and  Composition.  She  has  taught  at  Clark  University  and  is  currently  Professor  of  Music  at  the  University  of  California,  Davis.  Her  music  can  be  found  on  the  Left  Coast  CD  San  Francisco  Premieres,  released  in  2005,  and  a  recent  Ravello  CD  Tangos  for  Piano  performed  by  Amy  Briggs.    Her  website  is  lauriesanmartin.com.    

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Air  (1995)  by  Toru  Takemitsu  for  flute  Takemitsu’s  last  work    Takemitsu's  last  composition,  Air  for  solo  flute  (1995),  was  dedicated  to  the  great  Swiss  flutist  Aurèle  Nicolet  on  the  occasion  of  his  70th  birthday.  Joining  the  choir  of  great  musicians  to  leave  us  in  2016,  Nicolet  passed  away  just  after  his  90th  birthday  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.    The  work  opens  with  an  impressionistic,  introductory  passage  emphasizing  the  pitch  A  like  a  recitation  tone.    A  clearly  articulated  four-­‐note  motif  recurs  throughout  the  piece  in  various  guises.  The  mood  soon  becomes  more  introverted,  with  little  sighing  figures  and  an  occasional  flighty  gesture.    Unlike  his  other  works  for  flute,  which  frequently  employ  all  manner  of  extended  techniques,  Takemitsu  limits  the  use  of  extended  techniques  in  this  piece  to  flutter-­‐tongue  and  a  few  "bent"  notes.    An  extended  lyricism  pervades  the  work  until  we  hear  the  final  statement  of  the  motif  repeated  boldly  twice  at  the  end,  each  at  an  equal  dynamic  level.  It  is  as  if  the  distant  echo  of  the  opening  motif  were  a  second  voice  that  has  found  its  way  to  the  fore.  

— B.  B.    

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Toru  Takemitsu’s  biography  appears  above.    

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Plush  Earth  in  Four  Pieces  (2014)  by  Tonia  Ko    for  violin  and  piano  West  Coast  premiere  I.  Part      II.  Jewel      III.  Part      IV.  Mud    

The  day,  a  compunctious  Sunday  after  a  week  of  blizzards,  had  been  part  jewel,  part  mud.  In  the  midst  of  my  usual  afternoon  stroll  through  the  small  hilly  town  attached  to  the  girls'  college  where  I  taught  French  literature,  I  had  stopped  to  watch  a  family  of  brilliant  icicles  drip-­‐dripping  from  the  eaves  of  a  frame  house.  So  clear-­‐cut  were  their  pointed  shadows  on  the  white  boards  behind  them  that  I  was  sure  the  shadows  of  the  falling  drops  should  be  visible  too.  But  they  were  not.  

 This  evocative  opening  of  the  short  story  The  Vane  Sisters  by  Vladimir  Nabokov  is  the  entire  poetic  compass  of  my  work  Plush  Earth  in  Four  Pieces.  I  was  interested  in  the  dichotomy  presented  in  "part  jewel,  part  mud"  and  used  each  word  as  titles  of  the  individual  movements.  The  Part  movements  (I  &  III)  are  more  abstract  —  simply  a  "part"  for  the  duo  to  play  —  but  they  also  depict  a  "coming  apart"  of  the  material  over  the  course  of  their  short  durations.  Jewel  reminisces  on  the  blizzards;  Mud  begins  there  but  anticipates  evaporation  of  meltwater.  Although  the  four  movements  are  distinct  in  character,  they  share  many  musical  objects  and  gestures,  exploring  various  aspects  within  Nabokov’s  "compunctious  Sunday".  I  translated  his  vivid  imagery  of  a  spring  thaw  to  a  single  transformation  occurring  over  the  four  movements:  sharp,  pointed  articulations  melt  away  into  a  sound  world  that  is  fluid  and  almost  languid.  

—  T.  K.    

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The  music  of  Tonia  Ko  has  been  lauded  by  The  New  York  Times  for  its  "captivating"  details  and  "vivid  orchestral  palette."  Her  interests  in  texture  and  physical  movement  play  into  a  larger  theme  of  interdependency  between  visual  art  and  music.    For  the  2016-­‐2017  season,  Tonia  was  guest  composer  at  Clarion  Concerts  in  Columbia  County  and  The  Process  Series  at  UNC  Chapel  Hill.  She  was  also  commissioned  by  

clarinetist  Chen  Halevi  for  the  CEME  Festival  in  Tel  Aviv  and  Young  Concert  

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Artists,  writing  for  oboist  Olivier  Stankiewicz.  Future  projects  include  collaborations  with  The  Rhythm  Method  string  quartet  and  University  of  Kansas  Wind  Ensemble.    Tonia’s  music  has  been  performed  by  ensembles  such  as  Minnesota  Orchestra,  Volti,  New  York  Youth  Symphony,  Flux  Quartet,  orkest  de  ereprijs,  Eastman  Wind  Ensemble,  New  Morse  Code,  and  Sō  Percussion.  She  has  been  featured  at  nief-­‐norf  Summer  Festival,  Aspen  Music  Festival,  Tanglewood  Music  Center,  Shanghai  New  Music  Week,  and  Santa  Fe  Chamber  Music  Festival.  Tonia  has  received  awards  from  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Letters,  BMI,  Composers  Now,  International  Alliance  for  Women  in  Music,  as  well  as  residencies  at  Copland  House,  Djerassi,  Kimmel  Harding  Nelson  Center,  and  Atlantic  Center  for  the  Arts.  She  is  currently  represented  by  Young  Concert  Artists,  Inc.  as  2015-­‐2017  Composer-­‐in-­‐Residence.    Her  own  explorations  as  an  artist  have  sparked  interdisciplinary  connections  —  most  prominently  Breath,  Contained,  an  ongoing  project  using  bubble  wrap  as  a  canvas  for  both  art  and  sound.  Tonia  is  currently  a  doctoral  candidate  at  Cornell  University  where  she  studied  with  Steven  Stucky  and  Kevin  Ernste.  Born  in  Hong  Kong  and  raised  in  Honolulu,  she  received  previous  degrees  from  Indiana  University  and  the  Eastman  School  of  Music.    Her  website  is  toniako.com.    

◆    Sextet  (2010-­‐2012)  by  Peter  Josheff    for  flute,  clarinet,  violin,  viola,  cello,  and  piano  in  two  movements    Sextet  is  one  of  my  favorite  of  my  own  compositions.  It  followed  a  long  period  of  writing  vocal  music  (including  spoken  voice)  that  culminated  in  the  chamber  opera  Inferno  (2006-­‐2008,  produced  in  2009).  Anyone  who  has  ever  written  (or  participated  in  the  production  of)  an  opera  knows  that  there  are  a  huge  number  of  moving  parts,  both  compositionally  and  collaboratively.  Composing  the  Sextet  after  this  was  a  retreat  to  a  safe  haven;  chance  to  breathe  and  to  think  private  thoughts.    Starting  with  a  text  provides  ready-­‐made  material  for  composition.  If  one  is  faithful  to  the  words,  melodies  and  rhythms  can  appear  almost  as  if  by  magic  and  the  larger  forms  that  lie  slumbering  within  the  text  can  spring  into  being  with  very  little  difficulty.  Composing  purely  for  instruments  without  this  head  start  is  a  bit  like  falling  into  the  deep  end  of  the  pool:  one  must  learn  to  swim  on  one's  own.    

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Working  on  the  Sextet  calmed  many  of  my  insecurities  about  writing  abstract  music  and  nudged  me  further  along  the  path  toward  being  at  ease  with  my  own  voice.    My  most  recent  work,  The  Dream  Mechanic,  Four  Poems  by  Carol  Vanderveer  Hamilton,  for  woman's  spoken  voice,  tenor  and  chamber  orchestra,  will  be  premiered  by  the  San  Francisco  Chamber  Orchestra,  Ben  Simon,  director,  on  February  24,  25,  26  in  San  Francisco,  Palo  Alto,  and  Berkeley.  

 —  P.  J.  

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Peter  Josheff,  clarinetist  and  composer,  is  a  founding  member  of  Sonic  Harvest  and  of  Earplay.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Contemporary  Music  Players,  the  Empyrean  Ensemble,  and  the  Eco  Ensemble.  He  performs  frequently  with  Opera  Parallèle,  the  San  Francisco  Chamber  Orchestra,  and  Melody  of  China,  and  has  worked  with  many  other  groups  including  West  Edge  Opera,  the  Ives  Collective,  the  Paul  Dresher  Ensemble,  Composers  Inc.,  and  sf  Sound.  

 Peter  has  composed  instrumental  and  vocal  music,  opera  and  pop  songs,  as  well  as  music  for  dance  and  theater.  Crazed  Loner,  his  singer/songwriter  project,  had  its  public  debut  in  October  2016.  His  latest  work,  The  Dream  Mechanic,  Four  Poems  by  Carol  Vanderveer  Hamilton,  commissioned  by  the  San  Francisco  Chamber  Orchestra,  will  be  premiered  in  February  2017.  Peter's  recent  compositions  include  Big  Brother  (2014)  for  solo  piccolo,  premiered  by  Tod  Brody  with  Earplay;  Ground  Hog  Day  (2014)  for  clarinet  and  string  quartet,  premiered  by  the  Farallon  Quintet;  Europa  and  The  Bull  (2014),  a  chamber  oratorio  commissioned  and  premiered  by  the  Mary  Holmes  Festival  at  UC  Santa  Cruz;  The  Cauldron  (2013),  commissioned  and  premiered  by  tenor  Brian  Thorsett;  Waiting  (2012),  commissioned  and  premiered  by  Earplay;  Nautical  Man  Nautical  Man  (2011),  an  album  of  pop  songs;  Sutro  Tower  in  the  Fog  (2011),  commissioned,  premiered  and  recorded  by  the  Bernal  Hill  Players;  Sextet  (2010),  premiered  by  Sonic  Harvest;  and  Inferno  (2008),  a  chamber  opera  produced  by  San  Francisco  Cabaret  Opera  in  2009.    

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Earplayers  

In  addition  to  being  a  member  of  Earplay,  Terrie  Baune  (violin)  is  co-­‐concertmaster  of  the  Oakland-­‐East  Bay  Symphony,  concertmaster  of  the  North  State  Symphony,  and  a  former  member  of  the  Empyrean  Ensemble.  Her  professional  credits  include  concertmaster  positions  with  the  Women’s  Philharmonic,  Fresno  Philharmonic,  Santa  Cruz  County  Symphony,  and  Rohnert  Park  Symphony.  A  

member  of  the  National  Symphony  Orchestra  for  four  years,  she  also  spent  two  years  as  a  member  of  the  Auckland  Philharmonia  Orchestra  of  New  Zealand,  where  she  toured  and  recorded  for  Radio  New  Zealand  with  the  Gabrielli  Trio  and  performed  with  the  New  Zealand  Symphony  Orchestra.      

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Tod  Brody  (flutes)  has  enjoyed  a  long  career  as  a  musician,  teacher,  and  administrator.    As  a  flutist,  Brody  is  well  known  to  California  audiences  as  a  chamber  musician  and  orchestra  player,  with  a  focus  on  contemporary  music.    As  flutist  with  Earplay,  Empyrean  Ensemble,  Eco  Ensemble,  and  the  San  Francisco  Contemporary  Music  Players,  he  has  performed  many  world  premieres,  and  has  been  extensively  recorded.    He  is  on  the  music  faculty  at  

the  University  of  California,  Davis,  where  he  teaches  flute  and  chamber  music.    Tod  was  recently  named  Executive  Director  of  the  Marin  Symphony.      

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“…  One  cannot  resist  the  charm,  energy  and  allégresse  that  was  displayed  on  the  podium  by  Mary  Chun.”  —  Le  Figaro,  Paris    A  fierce  advocate  of  new  work,  Mary  Chun  (conductor)  has  worked  with  many  composers  such  as  John  Adams,  Olivier  Messiaen,  Libby  Larsen,  William  Kraft,  and  Tan  Dun,  to  name  a  few.    At  the  

invitation  of  composer  John  Adams,  she  conducted  the  Finnish  chamber  orchestra  Avanti!    in  the  Paris,  Hamburg  and  Montreal  premiere  performances  of  his  chamber  opera  Ceiling/Sky  to  critical  acclaim.    Passionate  about  new  lyric  collaborations,  she  has  music-­‐directed  several  world  premieres,  including  Libby  Larsen’s  opera,  Every  Man  Jack;  Mexican-­‐American  composer  Guillermo  Galindo’s  Decreation:  Fight  Cherries,  a  multi-­‐

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media  experimental  portrait  of  the  brief  life  of  the  brilliant  French  philosopher  Simone  Weil;  Carla  Lucero’s  Wuornos,  the  tragic  true  tale  of  the  notorious  female  serial  killer;  and  Joseph  Graves’  and  Mort  Garson’s  Revoco.    In  2014  Mary  became  the  first  American  music  director  to  be  invited  to  China  to  premiere  Mandarin  language  versions  of  Broadway  hits  such  as  Avenue  Q,  How  to  Succeed  in  Business  Without  Really  Trying,  and  most  recently  Man  of  La  Mancha  in  Beijing  and  Shanghai.  Closer  to  home,  she  most  recently  conducted  Thomas  Ades'  controversial  opera  Powder  Her  Face  with  the  West  Edge  Opera  to  international  critical  acclaim.    Other  conducting  engagements  include  opera  tours  with  the  Kosice  Opera  throughout  Germany,  Switzerland  and  Austria  in  addition  to  concerts  in  Belgium  and  the  Czech  Republic.    She  has  also  been  invited  to  conduct  at  the  Hawaii  Opera  Theater,  the  Lyric  Opera  of  Cleveland,  Opera  Idaho,  the  Texas  Shakespeare  Festival,  Ballet  San  Joaquin,  West  Bay  Opera,  Pacific  Repertory  Opera,  Mendocino  Music  Festival,  West  Edge  Opera,  and  the  Cinnabar  Opera  Theater  where  she  is  Resident  Music  Director.    

◆    The  biography  of  Earplayer  Peter  Josheff  (clarinets)  appears  in  the  Program  Notes  section  above.  

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A  native  of  Washington  D.C.,  Thalia  Moore  (cello)  began  her  cello  studies  with  Robert  Hofmekler,  and  after  only  5  years  of  study  appeared  as  soloist  with  the  National  Symphony  Orchestra  of  Washington  at  the  Kennedy  Center  Concert  Hall.    She  attended  the  Juilliard  School  of  Music  as  a  student  of  Lynn  Harrell.      Ms.  Moore  has  been  Associate  Principal  Cellist  of  the  San  Francisco  Opera  Orchestra  since  1982  and  a  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Ballet  Orchestra  since  1989.    Moore  has  been  a  member  of  the  Empyrean  

ensemble  since  1999  and  has  made  recordings  with  the  group  of  works  by  Davidovsky,  Niederberger,  Bauer,  and  Rakowski.    As  a  member  of  Earplay,  she  has  participated  in  numerous  recordings  and  premieres,  including  the  American  premiere  of  Shintaro  Imai’s  La  Lutte  Bleue  for  cello  and  electronics.    

◆    Ellen  Ruth  Rose  (viola)  enjoys  a  varied  career  as  a  soloist,  ensemble  musician  and  teacher  with  a  strong  interest  in  the  music  of  our  times.    She  is  

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a  member  of  Eco  Ensemble,  Empyrean  Ensemble,  and  Earplay.    She  has  worked  extensively  throughout  Europe  and  has  performed  as  soloist  with  many  ensembles  and  at  many  festivals.    She  has  appeared  on  numerous  recordings,  including  a  CD  of  the  chamber  music  of  German  composer  Caspar  Johannes  Walter  —  featuring  several  pieces  written  

for  her  —  which  won  the  1998  German  Recording  Critics  new  music  prize.    Over  the  past  several  years  she  has  collaborated  with  and  premiered  works  by  numerous  Northern  California  composers,  including  Kurt  Rohde,  Edmund  Campion,  Aaron  Einbond,  Mark  Winges,  John  MacCallum,  Mauricio  Rodriguez,  Cindy  Cox,  Mei-­‐Fang  Lin,  Robert  Coburn,  and  Linda  Bouchard.  In  2003  she  created,  organized  and  directed  Violafest!,  a  four-­‐concert  festival  at  UC  Davis  celebrating  the  viola  in  solos  and  chamber  music  new  and  old,  including  premieres  of  pieces  by  Yu-­‐Hui  Chang  and  Laurie  San  Martin.    Rose  holds  an  M.Mus.  in  viola  performance  from  the  Juilliard  School,  an  artist  diploma  from  the  Northwest  German  Music  Academy  in  Detmold,  Germany  and  a  B.A.  with  honors  in  English  and  American  history  and  literature  from  Harvard  University.    Her  viola  teachers  have  included  Heidi  Castleman,  Nobuko  Imai,  Marcus  Thompson,  and  Karen  Tuttle.      She  is  on  the  instrumental  faculty  at  UC  Davis  and  UC  Berkeley  and  has  taught  at  the  University  of  the  Pacific,  the  Humboldt  Chamber  Music  Workshop,  and  the  Sequoia  Chamber  Music  Workshop.      

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Brenda  Tom  (piano)  has  performed  as  a  soloist  with  the  SF  Chamber  Orchestra,  the  California  Symphony,  the  Pittsburgh  Ballet  Orchestra,  I  Solisti  di  Oakland,  the  Sacramento  Symphony,  the  Fort  Collins  Symphony,  the  Diablo  Symphony,  the  Sacramento  Ballet  Orchestra,  and  the  San  Francisco  Ballet  Orchestra.    She  has  

recorded  with  PianoDisc,  China  Recording  Company,  Klavier  Records,  V’tae  Records,  and  IMG  Media.  She  has  served  as  principal  pianist  with  the  Sacramento  Symphony,  Symphony  Silicon  Valley,  San  Jose  Chamber  Orchestra,  Monterey  Symphony,  and  Santa  Cruz  Symphony,  and  has  performed  with  the  Sacramento  Chamber  Music  Association,  MusicNow,  Chamber  Music/West,  the  Cabrillo  Festival,  the  Festival  of  New  American  Music,  Music  in  the  Mountains,  Music  From  Bear  Valley,  and  the  Hidden  Valley  Music  Festival.    Ms.  Tom  graduated  from  the  San  Francisco  Conservatory  of  Music,  where  she  studied  with  Beatrice  Beauregard  and  Mack  McCray.    

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 Staff

 With  nearly  30  years  of  administration  experience,  Lori  Zook  (Executive  Director)  has  worked  with  non-­‐profit  arts  organizations  since  1991,  and  has  held  management  level  positions  –  with  an  emphasis  on  fundraising  –  since  1998.  Most  recently,  she  was  a  Development  Manager  at  Quinn  Associates,  a  firm  serving  small  to  mid-­‐sized  non-­‐profit  organizations  throughout  the  Bay  Area,  where  she  assisted  multiple  clients  with  grant  writing,  grants  management,  prospect  research,  and  strategic  planning.  While  there,  she  raised  millions  of  dollars  for  her  clients,  which  included  presenters,  music  ensembles,  dance  companies,  arts  education  providers,  and  complex  public-­‐private  partnership  organizations.    She  served  as  the  executive  director  of  Oakland  Opera  Theater  from  1998-­‐2005,  and  during  her  tenure,  the  company  expanded  its  season,  developed  an  administrative  infrastructure,  experienced  substantial  audience  growth,  and  successfully  began  fundraising.    She  also  co-­‐founded  the  company's  venue,  the  Oakland  Metro  in  2001.    Lori  served  on  the  City  of  Oakland’s  Cultural  Affairs  Commission  and  was  Acting  Chair  of  that  body.    Under  her  leadership,  the  commission  became  participants  in  the  Oakland  Partnership  and  the  East  Bay  Cultural  Corridor  project,  the  latter  involving  a  four-­‐city  partnership  to  develop  marketing  strategies.  She  has  served  on  arts  funding  panels  for  the  City  of  Oakland  and  the  Arts  Council  of  Silicon  Valley,  and  has  been  involved  in  several  arts  initiatives,  including  ArtVote,  Spokes  of  a  Hub,  and  the  Illuminated  Corridor.  

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Special Thanks    Bruce  Christian  Bennett  Ellen  Ruth  Rose  Karen  Rosenak  

Lawrence  Russo  Brenda  Tom

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 Takemitsu  sketch  for  A  Flock  Descends  into  the  Pentagonal  Garden    

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Donors    Earplay  sincerely  thanks  its  donors  for  their  generosity  and  for  their  continued  belief  in  the  importance  of  the  creation  and  performance  of  intriguing  new  music.  Please  join  us  by  giving  whatever  you  can,  we  can’t  do  it  without  you!    $10,000  +  William  &  Flora  Hewlett  Foundation  San  Francisco  Grants  for  the  Arts    $5,000  +  The  Ann  and  Gordon  Getty  Foundation    Lawrence  Russo    $1,000  +  Mary  Chun  The  Aaron  Copland  Fund  for  Music  The  Alice  M.  Ditson  Fund  of  Columbia  University  Richard  Festinger  Patricia  Glasow  Barbara  Imbrie  Japan  Foundation  /  Los  Angeles  May  Luke  Bari  &  Stephen  Ness  Joan  &  Arthur  Rose  Laura  Rosenberg  Thomas  J.  White  The  Zellerbach  Family  Foundation    $500  +  Brooke  Aird  Samela  Aird  Beasom  &  Mark  Beasom  Jane  Bernstein  &  Robert  Ellis  Raymond  &  Mary  Chun  Sally  &  Philip  Kipper  Rosalie  &  Ronald  Lowe  Ellen  R.  Rose  &  Mark  Haiman  Ann  M.  Squires  

 $100  +  Lary  Abramson  Mark  Applebaum  Chen  Yi  &  Long  Zhou  Winnie  &  Wayne  Chun  Patti  Noel  Deuter  Violet  and  Douglas  Gong  Karen  Gottlieb  Ellinor  Hagedorn  Joan  Huang  &  William  Kraft  Jean  Iams  Antoinette  Kuhry  &  Thomas  Haeuser  Ellen  B.  Lichenstein  &  Daniel  DiGallo  R.  Wood  Massi  Ralph  &  Elizabeth  Morrison  Daniel  P.  Scharlin  William  Schottstaedt  Anne  Steele  Lori  Zook    Other  generous  donors:  Katherine  Brody  Ellen  Harrison  Wendy  Niles  Sandra  and  Leonard  Rosenberg    Jeffrey  &  Jean  Stadelman              

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Join us  Send  email  to  [email protected]  to  join  our  mailing  list.    And  please  consider  supporting  the  cause  of  new  music  with  a  generous  donation!    Mail  your  tax-­‐deductible  check  to:  

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or  click  on  the  Donate  tab  at  earplay.org  to  donate  via  PayPal.    Earplay  is  a  501(c)(3)  nonprofit  organization.  

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Herbst Theatre

SAN  FRANCISCO  WAR  MEMORIAL  AND  PERFORMING  ARTS  CENTER    

HERBST  THEATRE    

Owned  and  operated  by  the  City  and  County  of  San  Francisco  through  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  War  Memorial  of  San  Francisco  

 The  Honorable  Edwin  M.  Lee,  Mayor  

 TRUSTEES  

 Thomas  E.  Horn,  President  

Nancy  H.  Bechtle,  Vice-­‐President  Belva  Davis  

Lt.  Col.  Wallace  I.  Levin  CSMR  (Ret.)  Gorretti  Lo  Lui  

Mrs.  George  R.  Moscone  MajGen  J.  Michael  Myatt,  USMC  (Ret.)  

Paul  F.  Pelosi  Charlotte  Mailliard  Shultz  

Vaughn  R.  Walker  Diane  B.  Wilsey  

 Elizabeth  Murray,  Managing  Director  

Jennifer  E.  Norris,  Assistant  Managing  Director            

   

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About Earplay

Mission  statement:  nurtures  new  chamber  music,  linking  audiences,  performers,  and  composers  through  concerts,  commissions,  and  recordings  of  the  finest  music  of  our  time.      

Founded  in  1985  by  a  consortium  of  composers  and  musicians,  Earplay  is  dedicated  to  the  performance  of  new  chamber  music.    Earplay  offers  audiences  a  unique  opportunity  to  hear  eloquent,  vivid  performances  of  some  of  today’s  finest  chamber  music.    Earplay  has  performed  over  500  works  by  more  than  300  composers  in  its  32-­‐year  history,  including  over  140  world  premieres  and  more  than  80  new  works  commissioned  by  the  ensemble.  This  season  will  reinforce  Earplay’s  unwavering  track  record  of  presenting  exceptional  music  in  the  21st  century.    Concerts  feature  the  Earplayers,  a  group  of  artists  who  have  developed  a  lyrical  and  ferocious  style.  Mary  Chun  conducts  the  Earplayers,  all  outstanding  Bay  Area  musicians:  Tod  Brody,  flute  and  piccolo;  Peter  Josheff,  clarinet  and  bass  clarinet;  Terrie  Baune,  violin;  Ellen  Ruth  Rose,  viola;  Thalia  Moore,  cello;  and  Brenda  Tom,  piano.    Individual  donations  are  vital  to  Earplay’s  success,  and  we  greatly  appreciate  your  generosity!      Visit  our  website  earplay.org    to  make  a  tax-­‐deductible  donation,  or  make  a  donation  tonight.    Together  we  can  keep  the  music  coming!      Earplay  560  29th  Street  San  Francisco,  CA  94131-­‐2239    Email:  [email protected]  Web:  earplay.org  

 Earplay  New  Chamber  Music    @EarplayNewMusic  

   

   

                                                                                       

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Earplay’s 2017 Season in San Francisco: Air, Wind, Water

Concerts  at  7:30  p.m.  

Pre-­‐concert  talks  at  6:45  p.m.    

Concert 1: Air  Monday,  January  30,  2017  

at  Herbst  Theatre  401  Van  Ness  Avenue  (at  McAllister),  San  Francisco  

Peter  Josheff:  Sextet  Tonia  Ko:  Plush  Earth  in  Four  Pieces  **

Elena  Ruehr:  Blackberries  Laurie  San  Martin:  Fray  *  †  

Toru  Takemitsu:  Air  Toru  Takemitsu:  Romance  

 Concert 2: Wind

Monday,  March  20,  2017  at  ODC  Theater  

3153  17th  Street  (at  Shotwell),  San  Francisco Linda  Bouchard:  Second  Survival  †  

Peter  Maxwell  Davies:  Economies  of  Scale  Jason  Federmeyer:  compressions  :  reflections  **  †  Toru  Takemitsu:  And  Then  I  Knew  ‘twas  Wind    

Stephen  Yip:  Insight  II  ††    

Concert 3: Water Monday,  May  15,  2017  

at  ODC  Theater  3153  17th  Street  (at  Shotwell),  San  Francisco

Kyle  Bruckmann:  new  work    *  Cindy  Cox:  Lift-­‐up-­‐over  sounding  *  John  Liberatore:  while  I  sleep  **    

Eric  Moe:  Tough  Songs  about  Death  *  †  Toru  Takemitsu:  Between  Tides  

  * World premiere ** West Coast premiere † Earplay commission †† 2016 Aird prize  

Earplay  560  29th  Street  

San  Francisco,  CA  94131  Email:  [email protected]  

Web:  earplay.org