We have a terrific concert this weekend, conducted by one of the top Band guys in California - Tim Smith, Director of Bands at Cal State East Bay for 22 years.
Details below. Hope you can make it!
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band presents
An Enduring View
Guest Conductor Professor Timothy M. Smith, California State University, East Bay
8 pm, Saturday, March 17
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 678 Portola Dr. (near Twin Peaks), SF
Information: www.sflgfb.org; 415-255-1355
Admission Free
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band performs a plea for peace, Et in Terra Pax, as the finale of An Enduring View, the first concert of its 2007 Community Concert Series. An Enduring View presents a range of powerful pieces that explore our mortality and what it means to endure.
Guest Conductor Timothy M. Smith has served as Professor of Music and Director of Bands at California State University, East Bay for 22 years, and was recently named California Music Educators Association Bay Section’s Outstanding Music Educator of 2006.
Reception and photography exhibition hosted by A Woman’s Eye Gallery and Ebenezer Lutheran Church follows the concert.
Program includes:
· Endurance by Timothy Mahr tells the tale of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who were stranded on the ice of Antarctica from 1914 to 1916 and survived.
· Urban Scenes by Andrew Boysen, Jr., is a 5-part tone poem, reflecting the daily rush and hassle we endure.
· Et in Terra Pax was written by Belgian composer Jan van der Roost in 1998 for the town concert band in Vlamertinge, a Belgian town along the WWI battlefront that was frequently bombed and the site of a military cemetery from that war. This striking work includes the reading of “Sonnet” – a poem articulating the senseless loss of war written by young English poet Charles Hamilton Sorley not long before he himself was killed on a WWI battlefield.
· Stars by Jay Dawson captures our wonder at the vastness and brilliance of the universe.
· Caccia and Chorale, the last composition by Clifton Williams, explores the frantic “chase” that drives our modern lives, followed by the stately chorale, which calls us to stop and examine our lives.
· A View of the World by Brian Balmages celebrates the life and youthful spirit of a young band student, frozen in time when his life ends early.
For more information on this concert or the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the Official Band of the City of San Francisco, go to www.sflgfb.org.
To sign up for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band electronic newsletter, go to launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/...mband/.
Details below. Hope you can make it!
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band presents
An Enduring View
Guest Conductor Professor Timothy M. Smith, California State University, East Bay
8 pm, Saturday, March 17
Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 678 Portola Dr. (near Twin Peaks), SF
Information: www.sflgfb.org; 415-255-1355
Admission Free
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band performs a plea for peace, Et in Terra Pax, as the finale of An Enduring View, the first concert of its 2007 Community Concert Series. An Enduring View presents a range of powerful pieces that explore our mortality and what it means to endure.
Guest Conductor Timothy M. Smith has served as Professor of Music and Director of Bands at California State University, East Bay for 22 years, and was recently named California Music Educators Association Bay Section’s Outstanding Music Educator of 2006.
Reception and photography exhibition hosted by A Woman’s Eye Gallery and Ebenezer Lutheran Church follows the concert.
Program includes:
· Endurance by Timothy Mahr tells the tale of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who were stranded on the ice of Antarctica from 1914 to 1916 and survived.
· Urban Scenes by Andrew Boysen, Jr., is a 5-part tone poem, reflecting the daily rush and hassle we endure.
· Et in Terra Pax was written by Belgian composer Jan van der Roost in 1998 for the town concert band in Vlamertinge, a Belgian town along the WWI battlefront that was frequently bombed and the site of a military cemetery from that war. This striking work includes the reading of “Sonnet” – a poem articulating the senseless loss of war written by young English poet Charles Hamilton Sorley not long before he himself was killed on a WWI battlefield.
· Stars by Jay Dawson captures our wonder at the vastness and brilliance of the universe.
· Caccia and Chorale, the last composition by Clifton Williams, explores the frantic “chase” that drives our modern lives, followed by the stately chorale, which calls us to stop and examine our lives.
· A View of the World by Brian Balmages celebrates the life and youthful spirit of a young band student, frozen in time when his life ends early.
For more information on this concert or the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the Official Band of the City of San Francisco, go to www.sflgfb.org.
To sign up for the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band electronic newsletter, go to launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/...mband/.
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