Wendy Whelan with Brian Brooks and Brooklyn Rider at Herbst Theatre, November 30, 2017

San Francisco Performances presents the Bay Area premiere of Some of a Thousand Words
featuring Wendy Whelan, with Brian Brooks and Brooklyn Rider
Herbst Theatre
Veterans' Building, San Francisco War Memorial Performing Arts Center, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102-4522 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, November 30, 2017

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Music will include works by John Luther Adams, Tyondai Braxton, Philip Glass, and pianist Evan Ziporyn, and a new work from Brooklyn Rider’s own Colin Jacobsen

[7:34 PM lights down, announcements, Eric Jacobsen out alone in back]

1. [7:39 PM] 1st Movement: Jacob Cooper: Arches, for solo cello
2. [7:50 PM] 2nd Movement: Tyondai Braxton: ArpRec1
3. [7:58 PM] 3rd Movement: Colin Jacobsen: BIT
   
   4th Movement: Two excerpts from John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
4. [8:12 PM] Maclaren Summit
5. [8:18 PM] Looking Towards Hope
   
   First Fall (duet); music: Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima)
6. [8:25 PM] 1957: Award montage
7. [8:28 PM] November 25: Ichigaya
8. [8:30 PM] Grandmother and Kimitake
9. [8:34 PM] 1962: Body building
10. [8:36 PM] Blood Oath
11. [8:38 PM] Mishima – Closing
    [show ends 8:40 PM]

[8:46 PM] post-performance Q&A with Whelan, Brooks and Brooklyn Rider, moderated by Brad Rosenstein
[9:08 PM] Q&A ends

• Brian Brooks: dancer, choreographer;
• Wendy Whelan: ballet dancer;

Brooklyn Rider

• Nicholas Cords: viola;
• Johnny Gandelsman: violin;
• Colin Jacobsen: violin;
• Eric Jacobsen: cello.

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• Program Notes
• Janice Berman posted a review of the show on SFCV.
• Sue Gilmore posted a tease of a promo article with the Mercury News.
• Maxine Marshall posted a super-brief promo article about the show at SFGate that includes a few nice rehearsal photos.

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2017 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2017 event list! ☸ On to the next event!