San Francisco Contemporary Music Players present the second SFCMP Players Show of the 2013-14 season, featuring harpist Karen Gottlieb accompanied on percussion by Artistic Director Steven Schick and Andrew Myerson (of local duo The Living Earth Show).
The Players Show is a new occasional concert series that casts a spotlight on our ensemble members and their various musical activities around the Bay Area with informal, pop-up events. The ground rule in putting together the Players Show is that SFCMP musicians share the kinds of activities, collaborations, and repertoire they are exploring in their careers and in the Bay Area, and let them curate an hour-long concert. SFCMP sees these events as another way to bring listeners — from the deeply devoted, to the casual, to the total newcomer – into the arc of new-music creation, performance, and appreciation.
Also on the program: a solo performance by Mills College MFA student Stephan Haluska, who seeks to “push the harp into new territories by extending the harp’s vocabulary” and a performance by Oakland harpist Destiny Muhammad (a.k.a. The Harpist from the Hood) with bass and drums. Her self-described genre ‘Celtic to Coltrane’ is “cool and eclectic with a touch of storytelling to round out the sonic experience.” Gottlieb, with Schick and Myerson, will perform Lou Harrison’s Music for Harp.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 – 7:30 p.m. Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street
Tickets $15 at the door ($10 for CNM members).