San Francisco Performances presents Dawn Upshaw with Gilbert Kalish and Sō Percussion
Herbst Theatre
Veterans' Building, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4522 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 26, 2017

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CRUMB: Winds of Destiny; SHAW: New Work (Bay Area Premiere)

Revised: BRYCE DESSNER: Music for Wood and Strings SHAW: Narrow Sea (Bay Area Premiere) CRUMB: Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV)

[7:02 PM; Melanie Smith moderates a talk with composer Caroline Shaw and members of Sō Percussion, Josh Quillen and Eric Cha-Beach]
[talk ends 7:17 PM]

[7:31 PM lights down, announcements from Melanie Smith, Sō Percussion out]

1. [7:32 PM] Bryce Dessner (b. 1976): Music for Wood and Strings (2013), time-reduced version, performed by Sō Percussion
   [work ends 7:45 PM]
   [7:45 PM Jason Treuting talks a bit as the stage hands prep things for the next work]

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982): Narrow Sea (2017, Bay Area Premiere)

1. [7:49 PM] Wayfaring Stranger
2. [7:53 PM] Interlude
3. [7:57 PM] Infinite Day
4. [8:01 PM] I Stand
5. [8:05 PM] Going Home
   [set ends 8:m PM]

George Crumb (b. 1929): Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV, 2004): Songs of Strife, Love, Mystery and Exultation: A Cycle of American Civil War Songs, Folk Songs, and Spirituals

[8:30 PM lights down, band out]

1. [8:31 PM] Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
2. [8:39 PM] When Johnny Comes Marching Home
3. [8:46 PM] Lonesome Road
4. [8:50 PM] Twelve Gates to the City
5. [8:53 PM] De Profundis: A Psalm for the Night-Wanderer (Instrumental Interlude)
6. [8:56 PM] All My Trials (Death’s Lullaby)
7. [9:02 PM] Go Tell it on the Mountain!
8. [9:07 PM] The Enchanted Valley
9. [9:12 PM] Shenandoah
   [show ends 9:19 PM; applause and bows; curtain call; no encore tonight]

• Gilbert Kalish: piano;
• Dawn Upshaw: soprano vox;

Sō Percussion

• Eric Beach: percussion;
• Josh Quillen: percussion;
• Adam Sliwinski: percussion;
• Jason Treuting: percussion.

I was somewhat disappointed to realize beforehand that tonight's program repeats works I've heard relatively recently – the Dessner at SFJAZZ and the Crumb at Stanford (check that!), but considerably less so now that the event is over: the works all fit together pretty well, making a powerfully moving evening of new classical music.

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Program Notes

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