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Contemporaneousis an ensemble of 25 musicians whose mission is to bring to life the most transformative music by living composers through performances, commissions, recordings, and educational programs. Described as"exact and detailed, but also lively and openly dancing"(The New York Times) and"leading new music towards its better self"(I Care If You Listen), Contemporaneous particularly champions the creation of large-scale works and “dream projects,” which composers might not otherwise have opportunities to realize due to scale.

Contemporaneous

A Return to Live Music: day-long outdoor piano concert at Crowden Music Center on Sunday, May 9th!

Crowden Music Center

HEAR | TOGETHER is a celebration of the return of live music safely, in the open air, and the diverse range of pianists and composers in the Bay Area. Presented by a consortium of nonprofits — <a href="https://jonwinet.wixsite.com/alternating-currents" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alternating Currents</a>, <a href="https://www.crowden.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crowden Music Center</a>, <a href="https://www.contemporaneous.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Contemporaneous</a>, <a href="https://www.gardenofmemory.com/about-new-music-bay-area/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">New Music Bay Area</a>, and <a href="https://www.rossmckeefoundation.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Ross McKee Foundation</a> — the event will be an outdoor showcase for remarkable Bay Area pianists and composers and Crowden students, culminating in the brilliant two-hour solo piano piece by Bay Area composer Dylan Mattingly, titled Achilles Dreams of Ebbets Field. Hear | Together will be an all-day piano extravaganza, from 10am to 7 pm, offering audiences a safe opportunity to hear concerts in person. Each pianist will perform a 45-minute set, with 15-minute breaks (the exception being Mattingly’s two-hour piece, to be performed by pianist Robert Fleitz). Listeners, all socially distanced and masked, can hear a range of music, from the Brazilian jazz of Marcos Silva to Indian-American composer Reena Esmail played by Allegra Chapman, from American songbook standards performed by Tammy Hall to Nigerian composer Fred Onovwerosuoke’s playful Etudes with pianist Monica Chew. Sarah Cahill will premiere a new piece, Humanitas, by composer Frederic Rzewski. Special guests include vocalist Leberta Lorál and dancer Robert Dekkers. Crowden students will kick off the day of performances with an hour of solo and chamber music. This event will provide a rare chance to hear live music, outdoors, by a diverse range of some of the Bay Area’s finest pianists and composers. Tickets for this event are free! If you would like to support the artists involved, please visit <a href="https://www.contemporaneous.org/donate" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.contemporaneous.org/donate</a> and your contribution will support fees for the performers! Any contribution will support Alternating Currents, Contemporaneous, Crowden Music Center, and New Music Bay Area.To reserve your ticket: please click "Select a Time" on the right and register for each set you would like to attend! See the schedule below for set listings.To ensure the safety of performers and audience members, all attendees are required to wear masks for the duration of each performance. All tickets must be reserved in advance; no walk-ins will be allowed in compliance with state and county COVID safety guidelines. Proof of vaccination or negative results of a COVID-19 test within three days will also be required and must be provided at the gate.HEAR | TOGETHERSchedule for the day:10 am: Crowden students and faculty ———11 am-1pm : Monica Chew Book 1 of Etudes by Fred Onovwerosuoke selections from Elena Kats-Chernin's Unsent Love Letters Liz Dormanworks by Timo Andres, Scarlatti, and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre———1 pm-3pm :Tammy Hall and Leberta Lorál original compositions American songbook standards “The Nearness of You” and “Blue Divine”- an original by Tammy Hall (with Leberta Lorál) Marcos Silva ———3 pm-5pm :Allegra Chapman selections from J.S. Bach’s Partita in G Major, BMW 829 Reena Esmail Rang de Basant selections from Harry Burleigh’s From the Southland selections from Grazyna Bacewicz’s 10 Studies for Piano Dylan Mattingly ImprovisationsSarah Cahill selections from Frederic Rzewski’s Humanitas (world premiere)Mary Watkins’ Summer DaysMargaret Bonds Troubled WaterPaul Dresher’s Two Entwined———5 pm-7 pm Robert Fleitz Dylan Mattingly: Achilles Dreams of Ebbets FieldTo read more about each of the participating artists in HEAR | TOGETHER, click <a href="https://jonwinet.wixsite.com/alternating-currents/hear-together-performers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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