Last April I was so excited that the San Francisco Symphony had included Morton Feldman in their 2010–2011 season that I wrote an extended appreciation of Feldman’s music based on a selection of some of my favorite recordings. I observed that, over the course of his career as a composer, Feldman came to work with increasingly longer durations. So I began with “Structures,” a string quartet he composed in 1951 that is only five minutes long, worked my way through “Rothko Chapel,” the work which Principal Viola Jonathan Vinocour will perform next month with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and is on the half-hour scale, and progressed through to Feldman’s 90-minute “Trio” for piano trio.
The next sfSoundSeries concert, which will take place on January 29 in the Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, will provide an excellent opportunity to get to know Feldman through the “middle ground” of this durational scale. The highlight of the evening will be Feldman’s “Clarinet and String Quartet,” which is 45 minutes long. The clarinet soloist will be Matt Ingalls.
The concert will also feature the premiere of “Liquid Remains,” a new work for thirteen players by Christopher Jones, one of the “core” performers in sfSoundGroup. The group will also perform a free improvisation at the end of their program. The Jones premiere will be preceded by Anton Webern’s Opus 22 quartet, a two-movement composition scored for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone, and piano.
This concert will only be performed once on January 29 at 8 PM in the Concert Hall of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Admission is $15 with a special $8 rate for the underemployed. Tickets may be purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets. Further information may be found on an event page on the sfSound Web site.
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