Cain Schulte Gallery’s New Address

Cain Schulte Gallery has moved to a new address:

714 Guerrero Street (@ 19th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: 415.543-1550
Email: info@cainschulte.com
Hours: Thursdays & Fridays: 1 to 5; other times by appointment

Be sure to catch their new upcoming new exhibits!

Calendar 2009/2010:
San Francisco:
March 20th - April 25, 2009
Will Marino: “Paperwork: from Bees to Black Holes“, wound paper sculptures.
Opening for the artist: Friday March 20, 5:30 to 8:30 pm
April t.b.a.: Art talk brunch with Will Marino.
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May 1st- June 5, 2009
Aaron White: “French New Wave“, co-curated by Jon Joseph.
Opening for the artist: 5:30 -8:30pm; plus Live Performance!
Aaron White’s show will feature a variety of mixed media works on panel, canvas, and paper, and will include a live performance by this artist, during which he will paint our garage door! Don’t miss this one!
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June 12 - July 25, 2009
Diane Althoff: “A Measure of Art”, works on canvas.
Opening: June 12, 5:30 to 8:30 pm
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CAIN SCHULTE CONTEMPORARY ART BERLIN, Opening Fall 2009:
Planned is a series of short exhibitions, introducing our American artists:
October 2009:  Don Porcella, pipe cleaner sculptures and encaustics
November 2009: Henry Jackson, drawings and paintings
December 2009: Aaron White, mixed media paintings
January 2010: Justin Quinn /Linda Karshan
February 2010: Rex Ray, works on canvas and Klari Reis

Review of Woman’s Work at the Greenwich House Music

From the New York Times, read about Woman’s Work which featured a performance by pianist Jenny Lin of works by Gabriela Ortiz, Laura Schwendinger, Rozalie Hirs, Tzu-Ling Sarana Chou, Laura Kaminsky, and Julia Wolfe. go to New York Times

Economic Stimulus by Frank Oteri

The economy and the arts… read “Economic Stimulus” by Frank J. Oteri from February 2009 on New Music Box

David Lang wins Music Pulitzer

Bang on a Can composer David Lang wins 2008 Pulitzer. Go to NPR Music

Gallery Sessions: Elastic Band NEW!

ELASTIC BAND
January 16, 2008 7pm

Works by the Beatles, Stockhausen, Berio, Friedman, and Yoko Ono
Recorded Live at Cain Schulte Gallery
San Francisco, CA

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In 1966, Paul McCartney of the Beatles took time to explore the avante-garde scene and discovered the electronic music of Stockhausen and Berio. Later John Lennon (with influence from wife Yoko Ono) turned to these same avant-garde composers for such works as “Revolution No. 9″. This experimental approach was first heard on the Beatles’ early psychedelic-influenced track Tomorrow Never Knows, the final track of their 1966 studio album “Revolver”. The use of tape loops, electronically altered sound, as well as new recording techniques raised the bar in popular recording and opened new and exciting vistas of creative expression that are still reverberating today.

ADORNO pays tribute to this early convergence of the avant-garde and popular genres in a program of works by the Beatles, Stockhausen, and Berio, interspersed with some special performance art created by Yoko Ono. Artistic director Cynthia Mei brings into conversation composer Joel Phillip Friedman to discuss the major influences of composers such as Stockhausen and Berio in the music of the Beatles. ADORNO also performs Friedman’s four movement work, Elastic Band, synthesizes Stravinsky, Mozart, jazz-funk, and Ringo Starr. Friedman, who has extensively taught courses on music of the Beatles at Swarthmore College, Santa Clara University, and Stanford. The concert opens with an arrangement by Joel of  Tomorrow Never Knows from the Beatles’ “Revolver” album for the ADORNO Ensemble.

Program:

Tomorrow Never Knows (arrangement by Joel Friedman) for Flute, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, drum set, and keyboards
Composer Joel Friedman speaks with Artistic Director Cynthia Mei
Artisic Director Cynthia Mei speaks with ADORNO violinist Graeme Jennings
Luciano Berio Duetti for 2 violins
Yoko Ono “Breathe Piece” (not in recording)
Yoko Ono “Sweep” (not in recording)
Dr K Sextet for flute, viola, cello, clarinet, percussion, keyboard
Yoko Ono “Breathe Piece”(not in recording)
Yoko Ono “Pulse Piece” (not in recording)
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Right Durations” for circa 4 players
Luciano Berio “Sequenza” for Solo Flute
Karlheinz Stockhausen “Japan”
Yoko Ono “Breathe Piece” (not in recording)
Yoko Ono “Painting to Shake Hands” (not in recording)
Yoko Ono “Clock Piece”
Joel Freidman “Elastic Band” for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Clarinet, percussion (4 movements)

Bang on a Door (no)

APRIL 24 8pm

Knuth Hall - San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco

ADORNO pays tribute to New York’s renowned new music group “Bang on a Can”. Join us for “Bang on a Door(no)” with works by David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Evan Ziporyn, plus San Francisco’s own Dan Becker, Ryan Brown, and a premiere of a new work by Jonathan Russell.

“Bang on a Can” is an influential group of musicians/composers that began a signature movement in contemporary music, where they redefined new music on their own terms. The founders Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, fresh out of the Yale School of Music, arrived in New York City in the early 80’s, only to discover that the music world had been fractured into tiny, isolated communities, each with its own style and subgenre and venue and audience. Anyone who didn’t fit into one of these categories was faced with a seemingly insurmountable challenge. “Bang on a Can” was formed, first as a marathon concert and eventually as an ensemble, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, so that listeners could encounter a melding of categories: minimalism, rock, written and improvised music, world music, noise, live performance, and electronica. Read more

ADORNO at Switchboard

Be sure to catch ADORNO at the “Genre-defying” music fest on March 29th with Switchboard at the Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. The group will join a star-studded line-up of artists including Pamela Z, Edmund Welles, Melody of China, and Paul Dresher.

For more information, visit:

Switchboard Music website

March & April with ADORNO

Hello ADORNO friends,

Welcome to our March/April issue of Pith Music Magazine. The group will be performing at the popular Switchboard Music Festival on March 29th. It is an honor for us to be joined by some of the most innovative musicians all gathering together in San Francisco for an eclectic music marathon. We’ll follow this concert with “Bang on a Door (no)” on April 24th at Knuth Hall at SF State University. Please read on about our featured composers for the exciting upcoming April concert, which is curated by ADORNO’s clarinetist Jeff Anderle.

Enjoy, and we hope to see you all soon.

Cheers,

Cynthia Mei

Artistic Director

Jonathan Russell

ADORNO is excited to premiere a new work by composer/clarinetist Jonathan Russell. Jon also performs regularly with ADORNO’s clarinetist Jeff Anderle in their bass clarinet duo, Sqwonk. An active artist in the San Francisco Bay Area, he also cofounded the Switchboard Music Festival, presenting “an eclectic, genre-crossing/-breaking/-bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores.”

A uniquely creative and versatile musician, composer and clarinetist Jonathan Russell is active in a wide variety of music, from classical to experimental to klezmer to church music, and has composed for ensembles ranging from orchestra to bass clarinet quartet to rock band. His work stretches the boundaries of contemporary classical music, opening it up to the sounds and attitudes of the other musical traditions that surround it. His music, while deeply connected to the best of the classical tradition, is passionately concerned with the sounds and ideas of today’s world. He has received commissions from ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony, Empyrean Ensemble, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and performances from numerous other ensembles and performers, including the Berkeley Symphony, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, the BluePrint Project, the new music bands FIREWORKS, Capital M, and Oogog, and pianists Sarah Cahill, Lisa Moore, and Lara Downes. In the 2007 New Ariel Competition, Russell’s piano piece Metamorphosis #1 was chosen to be professionally recorded for release on the Capstone record label by acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Jacob. His orchestral composition Essay was the winner of the 2002 Lee Highsmith Orchestral Composition Competition, and received Honorable Mention in the 2003 Minnesota Orchestra Reading Competition. Upcoming projects include commissions from the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Adorno Ensemble, Classical Revolution, and pianist Matthew McCright.
Also active as a performer on clarinet and bass clarinet, Jonathan is a member of the heavy metal inspired Edmund Welles bass clarinet quartet and the Balkan/klezmer/experimental band Zoyres. He also plays in, composes for, and is a founding member of the Sqwonk bass clarinet duo, and freelances in the Bay Area as a classical, contemporary, and klezmer clarinetist.
Jonathan teaches composition at San Francisco Conservatory’s Adult Extension and Preparatory divisions, serves as Music Director at First Congregational Church, San Francisco, writes for the online San Francisco Classical Voice, and has served on the Music Theory faculty at San Francisco Conservatory’s collegiate division. He has a B.A. in Music from Harvard University and an M.M. in Music Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His composition teachers have included Dan Becker, Elinor Armer, Eric Sawyer, John Stewart, and Eric Ewazen.

Links:

Jonathan Russell

Sqwonk

Dan Becker

ADORNO will perform Dan Becker’s Keeping Time, a work commissioned by Other Minds Festival in 2008, and premiered by the group. Dan received his D.M.A., M.M.A., and M.M. in Composition from Yale University, and his B.M. from the Conservatory. His teachers include Jacob Druckman, Elinor Armer, Martin Bresnick, Louis Andriessen and Terry Riley. Awards and grants include those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, ASCAP, the Jerome Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Common Sense Composers’ Collective, an eight-member SF/NYC-based composers’ group that has collaborated with such ensembles as the Meridian Arts Ensemble, the New Millennium Ensemble, Twisted Tutu, the Dogs of Desire Ensemble, Essential Music and the American Baroque period instrument ensemble. CDs of works by the collective can be found on the CRI and Santa Fe New Music labels. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Music Center.

Links

Dan Becker

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