This Is What It Means
Co-presentation with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble as part of the inaugural California Festival.
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 Nicolás 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:
Sarah Gibson - “This is What It Means,” World Premiere, co-commission by SFGC and LCCE
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
Nicolás 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”
Gabriela Lena Frank - Zapatos de chincha
Reena Esmail - “The love of thousands”
November 4th, 2023 at 7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
November 5th, 2023 at 4:00 PM
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102