Venue:

First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco
8:00 pm
7:15 pm, pre-concert talk

 Program:

Melissa Hui, San Rocco (1991)
Alfred Schnittke, Hymns I-IV, for cello and instruments (1974-1979)
Dmitri Shostakovich,Sonata for Viola and Piano (1974)

 Featuring:

San Francisco Chamber Singers
Stephen Harrison, cello
Abel/Steinberg Duo

Urs Leonardt Steiner, guest conductor (Hui)

This unusual program of Music for the Spirit will be performed in collaboration with the San Francisco Chamber Singers.  We present Schnittke's brooding Hymns featuring cellist Stephen Harrison surrounded by a phalanx of tympani, harpsichord, bassoon, bells, harp, and bass. Also, Shostakovich's Sonata for Viola and Piano, and Melissa Hui's choral evocation of a rustic chapel on the Mediterranean coast.
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