Music of D'Arcy Reynolds To Be Performed in Two San Francisco-Area
Concerts - Cloven Dreams for Orchestra on May 14 and Ten Day Miner
for Concert Band on May 18
The music of California-based composer D'Arcy Reynolds will be heard
in two upcoming concerts in the San Francisco area:
Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 7:30 PM - Cloven Dreams for Orchestra
will be performed by the San Francisco School of the Arts Orchestra at
the school's Theatre, 555 Portola Drive in San Francisco, California.
For more information about this concert, please contact the School at
415-695-5700 or visit them online at http://www.sfsota.org.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 at 6:30 PM - Ten Day Miner for Concert Band
will be performed by the Magnolia Intermediate Gold Band at Cottage
Hill Elementary School Auditorium, 22600 Kingston Lane in Grass Valley,
California. The piece was written in conjunction with a San Francisco
American Composers Forum Community Engagement Grant. For more information
about this concert, please contact the School at 530-268-2808 or visit
them online at http://www.pleasantridge.k12.ca.us/magnolia.
Both of these concerts are free and open to the public.
Cloven Dreams was commissioned by Tessa Brinckman & the East/West
Continuo of Portland, Oregon after visiting Helen Martins' Owl House
in South Africa in the Summer of 2002. The programmatic work in three
sections is based on African field recordings from the 1940's, as well
as the inspiration provided by photographs from This is My World which
charts Martins' life in South Africa. The orchestral version of the
work was created as part of the composer's residency at the San Francisco
School of the Arts.
The composer has recently returned from an extended visit to South
Africa and kept a detailed online trip weblog that can be read at
http://www.sequenza21.com/reynolds.html or
http://www.darcyreynolds.com/southafrica.html.
D'Arcy Reynolds is a well-known composer on the West Coast where her
compositions have been premiered at numerous concert halls and music
festivals. She has written works for orchestra, chamber orchestra,
chorus, chamber ensemble, voice and piano. Recent premieres include her
string quartet "Cloven Dreams", performed by Tessa Brinckman & the
East/West Continuo in Portland, Oregon, "Elegy" by the San Jose Chamber
Orchestra, "21" for piano, and "The Past Keeps Changing", performed at
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. In recognition
for her outstanding work, D'Arcy has won several grants from such
prestigious organizations as the American Composers Forum, the American
Music Center and Meet the Composer. Visit her website at
http://www.darcyreynolds.com/.
For more information about D'Arcy Reynolds, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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