Ensemble Signal with Steve Reich at Hertz Hall, January 29, 2017

Cal Performances presents a Steve Reich 80th BD Celebration featuring Ensemble Signal
Hertz Hall
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
7:00 PM, Sunday, January 29, 2017

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• Steve Reich: Runner (US premiere, Cal Performances co-commission)
• Double Sextet
• You Are (Variations)

[7:04 PM lights down, announcements from Matías Tarnopolsky]

1. [7:08 PM] Clapping Music (1972), performed by Steve Reich & Brad Lubman
   [work ends 7:11 PM; brief pause to set the stage for the next piece]

Quartet (2013), performed by Bill Solomon and Doug Perkins, vibraphones, and David Friend and Oliver Hagen, pianos

1. [7:12 PM] Fast »
2. [7:19 PM] Slow »
3. [7:24 PM] Fast
   [work ends 7:30 PM; long break to reconfigure the stage for the next work]

Runner (2016) (US Premiere, Cal Performances co-commission), performed by Ensemble Signal

1. [7:45 PM] Even Sixteenths »
2. [7:47 PM] Irregularly Accented Eighths »
3. [7:51 PM] Slow Ghanian Bell Pattern »
4. [7:54 PM] Irregularly Accented Eighths »
5. [7:57 PM] Even Sixteenths with breath pulses
   [set ends 8:01 PM; lots of applause, Reich joins the ensemble onstage, then all off]

• Caleb Burhans: viola;
• Greg Chudzik: contrabass;
• David Friend: piano;
• Isabel Hagen: viola;
• Oliver Hagen: piano;
• Kelli Kathman: flute;
• Will Knuth: violin;
• Jackie LeClair: oboe;
• Brad Lubman: conductor;
• Kevin McFarland: cello;
• Yuki Numata: violin;
• Courtney Orlando: violin;
• Doug Perkins: vibraphone;
• Lauren Radnofsky: cello;
• Christa Robinsion: oboe;
• Adrían Sandí: clarinet;
• Jessica Schmitz: flute;
• Bill Solomon: vibraphone;
• Ari Streisfeld: violin;
• Ken Thomson: clarinet.

[8:24 PM lights down, band out]

Reich: Radio Rewrite (2012)

1. [8:26 PM] Fast (based on Jigsaw Falling into Place) »
2. [8:31 PM] Slow (based on Everything in its Right Place) »
3. [8:34 PM] Fast (based on Jigsaw Falling into Place) »
4. [8:37 PM] Slow (based on Everything in its Right Place) »
5. [8:41 PM] Fast (based on Jigsaw Falling into Place)
   [work ends 8:45 PM; break to reconfigure the stage for the next work]

• Greg Chudzik: bass;
• David Friend: piano;
• Isabel Hagen: viola;
• Oliver Hagen: piano;
• Kelli Kathman: flute;
• Brad Lubman: conductor;
• Yuki Numata: violin;
• Courtney Orlando: violin;
• Doug Perkins: vibraphone;
• Lauren Radnofsky: cello;
• Adrían Sandí: clarinet;
• Bill Solomon: vibraphone.

[8:54 PM lights down, band out]

Double Sextet (2007), Brad Lubman, conducting.

1. [8:56 PM] Fast »
2. [8:59 PM] Slow »
3. [9:05 PM] Fast
   [set ends 9:12 PM; long stretch for applause, all off by 9:15 PM]

• David Friend: piano;
• Kelli Kathman: flute;
• Courtney Orlando: violin;
• Lauren Radnofsky: cello;
• Adrían Sandí: clarinet;
• Bill Solomon: vibraphone;

• Oliver Hagen: piano;
• Kevin McFarland: cello;
• Doug Perkins: vibraphone;
• Jessica Schmitz: flute;
• Ari Streisfeld: violin;
• Ken Thomson: clarinet.

[9:19 PM; Matías Tarnopolsky speaks with Steve Reich]
[Q&A Session ends 9:47 PM]

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

Jeff Kaliss posted a nice promo article about Steve Reich on SFCV.

Joshua Kosman posted a review of the show at SFGate. It was nice to read his insights, but I'm flumoxxed as to how he could describe Clapping Music as “unpredictable.”

Rebecca Wishnia posted a review for SFCV. I was surprised that she seemed to expect Radio Rewrite to be a more rocking piece: I guess that's evidence of the baggage of expectations!

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