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BluePrint
BluePrint 2009-2010
Crosscurrents… where arts converge
Nicole Paiement, Artistic Director
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Streaming Illusions
October 10, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Concert Hall
Text and music come powerfully together in Allen Strange’s King of Handcuffs, a fantasy about escape artist Harry Houdini, and Darius Milhaud’s La mort d’un tyran, with a speaking chorus denouncing political tyranny. Fiery musical dialogs also permeate John Adams’ clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons, and Ronald Caltabiano’s Concertini.
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Souls Adrift
November 14, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Concert Hall
A first time collaboration between BluePrint and the American Conservatory Theater, this concert presents the rarely-performed complete version of Igor Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, with actors and dancers.
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SPECIAL EVENT: WOZZECK
January 29-31, 2010, 8:00 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Ensemble Parallèle presents the California premiere of John Rea’s chamber orchestra version of Alban Berg’s haunting opera Wozzeck, a dark tale of a poor soldier driven to madness and murder by the oppressive conditions of his existence.
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Flowing Shadows
February 20, 2010, 8:00 p.m., Concert Hall
Shadow puppeteers will join the New Music Ensemble in Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe’s Nourlangie, for guitar and ensemble, with acclaimed guitarist and SFCM faculty member David Tanenbaum as soloist. Not to be missed is the full version of Edgard Varèse’s ground-breaking Déserts, as well as works by Lembit Beecher and Lou Harrison.
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Homage to Conrad Susa
March 13, 2010, 8:00 p.m., Concert Hall
The premiere of the revised final version of renowned opera composer and longtime SFCM faculty member Conrad Susa’s opera The Love of Don Perlimplin, a story of love and loss at turns comedic and tragic.
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