Chamber Music in San Francisco at Noe Valley Ministry

Brass Over Bridges is presenting an evening of chamber music with an open beer & wine bar at Noe Valley Ministry on Friday, April 22nd at 7pm.

This concert and commission have been made possible by the generous contributions of InterMusic SF’s Musical Grant Program www.intermusicsf.org. This concert features works exclusively by women, and includes an open beer & wine bar (for 21+), free snacks, non-alcoholic beverages, and a silent auction.

Purchase tickets here.

Funds raised will support Brass Over Bridges’ efforts in providing free educational concerts in schools, free community performances, and in advancing compositional diversity in classical music through commissioning new works.

We’ve received generous donations for our silent auction from SF Giants, Oakland A’s, House of Air, SF MOMA and many more.

See the prizes in our silent auction…

The evening features music inspired by poetry…

including our world premiere of Julie Barwick’s “Paths,” a four-movement work inspired by poems from four different bay area writers:

Constant Change (constant change figures by Lyn Hejinian)
Bridge, Sea (The Long View by Randall Mann)
Alone, Entwined (Random Thoughts Deep at Night by Yee of Taishan)
Trade Paths (Deer Trails by Kim Shuck)

Other works on our concert inspired by poetry are:

Dale Trumbore’s In the Light of Late November. This piece was originally written for choir, but suits the brass quintet beautifully. It is based upon Barbara Crooker’s poem “Praise Song,” which praises the transformative beauty of late fall into winter and reflects upon it as a metaphor for our lives. Hear a beautiful choral performance of the work here.

Barbara Strozzi’s madrigal Silentio nocivo or Harmful Silence, is based upon poetry by her father, Giulio Strozzi. The poem upon which this choral work is based implores one to express their feelings of love, as opposed to suffering through their self-imposed silence. Read the poem and find recordings here.

Reena Esmail’s second movement of her work Khirkiyaan, reflects upon a couplet of poetry: “When the shoe bites / Then it becomes difficult to navigate through the world / And when the shoe stops biting / Then it becomes difficult to navigate through time.” For more information on this work, visit Esmail’s website.

Other music includes Copperwave by Joan Tower, a performance of Esmail’s Khirkiyaan in its entirety, The Five Chairs by Marti Epsten, and Jennifer Higdon’s Fanfare.

See you there!

This program will also be presented at Las Positas College in Livermore, CA on April 23 at 7pm.