Join the SFCO and two acclaimed choirs, San Francisco’s stellar Volti and the amazing young singers of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir for the world premiere of Michael Gilbertson’s final commission as our BMI Composer-in-Residence. Denial, set to both ancient and contemporary texts, is a powerful meditation on climate change and our current political deadlock. Opening our program is Vaughan-Williams rapturous and beautiful The Lark Ascending, featuring our illustrious concertmaster Robin Sharp. And closing the program, and our season, is Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, one of his most popular and exciting works.
Program:
Ralph Vaughan-Williams The Lark Ascending
Robin Sharp, violin
Diana Woolner The Fire Cycle
Volti
Michael Gilbertson Denial; 2019 commission and
World Premiere
Volti & Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir
Frank Ticheli Earth Song
Volti
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Concerts
Friday, April 22, 2022, 7:30pm
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 7:30pm
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto
Sunday, April 24, 2022, 3:00pm
First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Season Sponsor
Supporting Government Organizations
Supporting Foundations
Myrtle L. Atkinson Foundation
Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation
Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
Bernard Osher Foundation
Raymond Family Foundation
Sam Mazza Foundation
Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation