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SAN FRANCISCO COMPOSERS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Presents "Bring 'Em Back Alive!"
Celebrating our Twentieth Anniversary
Saturday, May 28, 2022 at 8 pm

Lakeside Presbyterian Church
201 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco, CA

PROGRAM

 

Hussein Al-Nasrawi

A Day at the California Academy of Sciences   notes   video

Lisa Scola Prosek

The Bells of Santo Stefano   notes

Soave Luna   video

Shauna Fallihee, Soprano

Lisa Scola Prosek is a graduate of Princeton University in Music Composition. Her teachers include Edward Cone, Milton Babbitt, Lukas Foss, and Gaetano Giani Luporini. Scola Prosek is the recipient of numerous grants, commissions and awards, including The NY Center for Contemporary Opera "Atelier" Award for The Lariat. Scola Prosek has composed and produced eight operas with librettos in Italian and English. In 2012, Daughter of the Red Tzar, written for acclaimed tenor John Duykers, premiered in San Francisco to capacity audiences, and is currently on the outreach season with Long Beach Opera. Lisa serves as General Manager and Director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, since 2001. Other awards have been from Theatre Bay Area, the LEF Foundation, The Argosy Contemporary Music Fund, Meet the Composer, the Hewlett Foundation, the American Composers Forum, The San Francisco Arts Commission, The Center for Cultural Innovation, The California Arts Council, the NEA and the Zellerbach Foundation.

Lisa Scola Prosek, Soprano

 Stardust

Wiggle   notes   video

John Beeman

Rogue River Canyon   notes

III. Day's End to Canyon Night
IV. Deep Canyon

Mark Alburger

Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392,
from The Decameron: Fifth Day
  notes   video

Novel III. Pietro Boccamazza runs away with Agnolella, and encounters a gang of robbers...
Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo, his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows...
Novel VIII. Nastagio degli Onesti, loving a damsel of the Traversari family, by lavish expenditure gains not her love...

Michael Cooke

Symphony No. 4 ("Deconstructing Beethoven")   notes

II. Allegretto   video

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PERFORMERS
 

Piccolo / Flute
Bruce Salvisberg
Martha Stoddard

Oboe / English Horn
Stardust

Clarinet / Bass Clarinet
Michael Kimbell
Tom Berkelman

Bassoon
Michael Cooke
Kat Walsh


Horn
Bob Satterford

Ukulele
Bruce Salvisberg

Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Lisa Scola Prosek

Percussion
Hussein Al-Nasrawi
Victor Flaviano
Lisa Scola Prosek


Violin I
Kristen Kline

Violin II
Kat Walsh

Viola
Harry Bernstein
Kat Walsh

Cello
Doug Machiz

Bass
John Beeman