Community Music Center singers, numbering nearly 90, from CMC’s Older Adult Choir Program, New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus, Anything Goes Chorus, Coro de Cámara, as well as voice students, faculty, and staff are taking the stage in Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form on February 2nd and 3rd at the San Francisco Symphony. The singers will be joined by ABD Production’s Skywatchers singers as the community chorus, singing the penultimate section of Kahane’s oratorio on income inequality and the precarity of housing.
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, CMC faculty member who teaches voice, flute, and conducts Older Adult Choirs and Coro de Cámara, recruited CMC students for Kahane’s piece. Martha is directing the singers in preparation for their performances.
Led by conductor Edwin Outwater and featuring mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form is an unflinching narration of the fear, humiliation, and insurmountable obstacles associated with being unhoused in America. The oratorio’s rich libretto highlights the humanity behind a crisis that affects us all. Conrad Tao opens the program with George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, a follow-up to Rhapsody in Blue that weaves jazz with classical form and suggests America’s endless capacity for invention and change.
Prior to the concert, three local nonprofits will be in the Davies Symphony Hall lobby to share information about their activities in the homeless services and housing insecurity space: Compass Family Services, HomeRise, and San Francisco SafeHouse. Arrive early to learn more about and support these incredible organizations.
Read an interview with Gabriel Kahane here.
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30pm
Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
San Francisco Symphony is offering the CMC community 25% off of tickets to emergency shelter intake form for all sections excluding Loge, Side Box, Premier Orchestra, and Center Terrace. Use the code CMC25. The promo code must be applied before selecting your seats.
ARTISTS:
Edwin Outwater, Conductor
Conrad Tao, Piano
Alicia Hall Moran, Mezzo-sporano
Chorus of Inconvenient Statistics: Kristen Toedtman, Gabriel Kahane, Holcombe Waller
Community Music Center Choir, led by Martha Rodríguez-Salazar
Skywatchers Ensemble
San Francisco Symphony
Community Music Center singers, numbering nearly 90, from CMC’s Older Adult Choir Program, New Voices Bay Area TIGQ Chorus, Anything Goes Chorus, Coro de Cámara, as well as voice students, faculty, and staff are taking the stage in Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form on February 2nd and 3rd at the San Francisco Symphony. The singers will be joined by ABD Production’s Skywatchers singers as the community chorus, singing the penultimate section of Kahane’s oratorio on income inequality and the precarity of housing.
Martha Rodríguez-Salazar, CMC faculty member who teaches voice, flute, and conducts Older Adult Choirs and Coro de Cámara, recruited CMC students for Kahane’s piece. Martha is directing the singers in preparation for their performances.
Led by conductor Edwin Outwater and featuring mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, Gabriel Kahane’s emergency shelter intake form is an unflinching narration of the fear, humiliation, and insurmountable obstacles associated with being unhoused in America. The oratorio’s rich libretto highlights the humanity behind a crisis that affects us all. Conrad Tao opens the program with George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, a follow-up to Rhapsody in Blue that weaves jazz with classical form and suggests America’s endless capacity for invention and change.
Prior to the concert, three local nonprofits will be in the Davies Symphony Hall lobby to share information about their activities in the homeless services and housing insecurity space: Compass Family Services, HomeRise, and San Francisco SafeHouse. Arrive early to learn more about and support these incredible organizations.
Read an interview with Gabriel Kahane here.
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30pm
Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
San Francisco Symphony is offering the CMC community 25% off of tickets to emergency shelter intake form for all sections excluding Loge, Side Box, Premier Orchestra, and Center Terrace. Use the code CMC25. The promo code must be applied before selecting your seats.
ARTISTS:
Edwin Outwater, Conductor
Conrad Tao, Piano
Alicia Hall Moran, Mezzo-sporano
Chorus of Inconvenient Statistics: Kristen Toedtman, Gabriel Kahane, Holcombe Waller
Community Music Center Choir, led by Martha Rodríguez-Salazar
Skywatchers Ensemble
San Francisco Symphony
Lovers Lane: Amor para la Misión
Saturday February 11th from 12-6pm
Balmy Alley SF (off 24th between Treat & Harrison)
Free
CMC is proud to join this year’s Lovers Lane festival in Balmy Alley this February. Come say hello to at the CMC table, where students from our Mission District Young Musicians Program will be doing musical demonstrations, and enjoy a vibrant neighborhood event and support community artists and vendors, featuring oldies, art, games, food, drinks, kids activities, live painting, lowriders, local vendors & more!
Balmy Alley is located off of 24th Street parallel to Treat Ave and Harrison Street between 24th & 25th Streets
Stay tuned for more details!
CMC Vocal Workshop
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
8:00–9:30pm Online
CMC Voice Faculty Martha Rodríguez-Salazar and Clif Payne will lead a virtual workshop and masterclass to give coaching to CMC voice students on music they’re working on this quarter. In order to give each participant time for their performance and feedback, space is limited to 8–10 students (depending on repertoire).
Students interested in participating should sign up by January 31—talk to your voice teacher or use the invite link in your email.
Vocal students are also encouraged to audit and join the audience to support their fellow CMC singers.
Contact Voice Department Chair Ellen Shea with any additional questions.
