This Is What It Means - LCCE and the SF Girls Chorus (Berkeley)

LEFT COAST AT THE CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL: CALIFORNIA VOICES

This Is What It Means

LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS

Left Coast and the San Francisco Girls Chorus team up to present a program which centers the voices of Californian women composers at the California Festival.

We interweave instrumental and vocal works by Pauline Oliveros, Gabriela Lena Frank, Reena Esmail, Gabriella Smith, Lisa Bielawa, and Ursula Kwong-Brown with the music of Nicolas Lell Benavides, Caroline Shaw, and Hildegard von Bingen. The two ensembles join forces to premiere a new work written for the occasion by Sarah Gibson.

Program includes:

Ursula Kwong-Brown - "I see you, I hear you"

Gabriela Lena Frank - "Picaflor" from "Two Mountain Songs"

Gabriela Lena Frank - "Canto para California"

Lisa Bielawa - "Forest" from "Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser"

Nicolas Lell Benavides - "A bird came down the walk" (Pathways mentor)

Gabriella Smith - "Carrot Revolution"

Pauline Oliveros - "Tree/Peace"

Caroline Shaw - "Dolce cantavi"

Hildegard of Bingen - "O Virtus Sapientiae"

Sarah Gibson - New Commission TBA WORLD PREMIERE

Gabriela Lena Frank - "Zapatos de chincha"

Reena Esmail - "The love of thousands"

This concert is generously sponsored by Susan Shalit and Mary Logger.

$35.00.

Presented by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble