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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Daisy S.\nMusicians: Luis Eduardo Bellorín\, Chris W
 hitley\, Kumiko Sakamoto\, and Bridget Pasker\n\nYou will not forget this 
 evening of epic music in a large and beautiful community space in San Fran
 cisco.\n\nSome stories:\n.........\n#1\nIt's 1946.  Dmitriy Shostakovich h
 as just had his Symphony no. 9 censured by Soviet authorities.  He has wri
 tten a new string quartet\, the haunting and challenging No. 3.  For its p
 remiere\, most likely so that he would not be accused of "formalism" or "e
 litism\," Shostakovich renames the movements in the manner of a war story:
 \n\n1. Blithe ignorance of the future cataclysm\n2. Rumblings of unrest an
 d anticipation\n3. Forces of war unleashed\n4. In memory of the dead\n5. T
 he eternal question: Why? And for what?\n\n.........\n\n#2\nIt's 1980. In 
 twenty years\, NASA will commission you to take sounds of space and weave 
 them into music. This sounds will come from plasma wave receivers flown on
  a variety of Milky Way spacecraft over a period of 40 years.  That is yet
  to come: for now\, you are writing Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collect
 or.  It is an improvisational piece\, inspired by a whimsical idea: each d
 ay\, a dream collector collects the dreams of all the planet's sleepers\, 
 and redistributes them again next day. You write the composition for the K
 ronos Quartet\, your new collaborators. It is in Dorian mode\, in fourteen
 -beat modules (because seven!). They players choose the modules they are i
 nspired to play.\n\n.........\n\n"For only now have I learnt to write quar
 tets\; and this you will notice\, I fancy\, when you receive them."  -- Lu
 dwig van Beethoven.\n
LOCATION:South of Market\, San Francisco
SUMMARY:Blithe ignorance of the future cataclysm
URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/3318-blithe-ignorance-of-the-future-ca
 taclysm
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