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Rhapsody: Music by Women Composers | E4TT

  • Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St San Francisco, CA (map)
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Continuing E4TT's series (sold-out last season!) of music by women composers with works by ten fabulous women composers of today, performed by McGuinness, Lerner and season guest pianist Halbig, with guest violinist Ilana Blumberg, and featuring: 

The World Premiere of a new song cycle, "Anemones," for soprano and piano by Canadian Call for Scores composer Emily Doolittle to texts by Bay Area poet Rachel Richardson

Two reprises from the COVID-shortened season: Bay Area composer Ursula Le Guin and Rella Lossy; and "Rest These Hands" (2014) for solo violin and spoken voice by 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Fellow Anna Clyneto a text by Colleen Clyne. (Listen to an interview with Armer from E4TT's summer 2020 "Meet the Artist" series.

PLUS works by NY Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Cuban-American composer Tania León ; Argentinean Latin Grammy winner Claudia Montero; 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Marti Epstein; 2013 Pulitzer Prize composer Caroline Shaw; "Echo Dash" (2013) by 2010 Pulitzer Prize composer Jennifer Higdon; Grammy winner Missy Mazzoli; Canadian 2012 Guggenheim Fellow Vivian Fung, and also by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. The concert will be available at no cost via livestream on the Center for New Music's YouTube and Facebook channels.