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Remotely…
The Quartet is now successfully connecting remotely to rehearse in preparation for upcoming performances. Results improve each session, and, after a year’s public hiatus, the band is poised to present new and recent works to you. Very soon we’ll resume in-person rehearsals and will even play to a live audience in San Francisco in July. Upcoming events will also include rebroadcasts of archival material and streaming of a concert video we’ll create in early June for online viewing.
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Rova on the Air Series Continues
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Rova:Arts has initiated an ongoing monthly series, streaming shows from the Rova archives as well as newly recorded performances for virtual viewing. The series will continue as venues gradually reopen, enabling you to experience Rova music without leaving home. Many of the broadcasts will premiere on a Thursday at 7 PM Pacific Time and will be available throughout that weekend. For these, the Thursday broadcasts at 7 PM will be followed by live Q+A sessions with Rova members and you. As we expand the series to include more recent events, the format will vary. Currently scheduled events are FREE!
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Thursday, May 20, 7PM PDT
Rova on the Air 2: Orkestrova Live at the 2005 Tampere Jazz Happening
To view the video performance when it is streamed, follow this link: https://youtu.be/rpnHYJhhEaM
Recorded live at the Tampere Jazz Happening, Nov. 6, 2005 and produced by Timo Lehtinen for the Jazz Is Happening TV series and the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
The initial airing on Thursday, May 20 at 7PM PDT will be followed by a live Q+A with Rova. After that, the Finnish TV broadcast will be available for viewing through Sunday May 23.
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Rova plus:
Natsuki Tamura - trumpet
Verneri Pohjola – trumpet
Ilmari Pohjola - trombone
Markku Veijonsuo - trombone
Satoko Fujii - piano
Antti Lötjönen - bass
Akira Horikoshi - drums
This concert was one of 3 festival appearances that Rova played in Europe with the trio of Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura, and Akira Horikoshi in fall 2005. The big band music performed in Europe was originally written by Fujii and Steve Adams for a Rova:Arts produced concert in San Francisco in 2002, and later released on the CD, An Alligator in Your Wallet. On the tour we filled out the band with local musicians from Switzerland, France, and then Finland, and rehearsed the music together on the day of the concert. The results were fantastic, with all players getting right into the heart of the music.
This documentary, produced by the Finnish Broadcasting Company in 2006, includes 3 pieces in their entirety. Satoko’s “A Lion in Your Bag” is first and features Larry Ochs. Steve’s “Survival (in Five Acts)” follows, with solos by Verneri Pohjola, Ochs, Raskin and Adams. Last is Satoko’s “An Alligator in Your Wallet”, with a solo by Ackley followed by a trumpet duo by Verneri and Natsuki, and a trombone duo by Olmari and Markku. The video concludes with excerpts from Satoko’s “A Zebra on Your Roof” and Steve’s piece “Chuck”.
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Friday June 18 and Sunday June 20, 7:00 PM
Rova on the Air 3, Set 1 and Set 2: Rova Saxophone Quartet Live
Free live-streamed concerts!!
2 separate one-set concert performances streamed from the Center for New Music: Set 1 on Friday June 18 and Set 2 on Sunday June 20 at 7:00. Don’t miss this first opportunity to witness Rova in action in 18 months! The quartet will premiere new works, and present pieces from our upcoming CD, The Circumference of Reason, to be released in September.
The link for viewing will be sent separately closer to the date of the show, and listed at Rova.org.
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Thursday July 29 – Sunday August 1, 7:00 PM
Rova on the Air 3: Carla Kihlstedt’s Pandæmonium
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Rova commissioned Carla Kihlstedt for a work that she called Pandæmonium, which premiered at the Other Minds Festival 15 in 2010. Rova was joined by narrator-actors Matthias Bossi and Joan Mankin. Kihlstedt's inspiration and the texts used in the work came from the book, Pandæmonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886 by Humphrey Jennings. All excerpts from the book were sourced from letters, articles, diaries, literature, and scientific studies about the industrial age, as experienced from 1660-1886.
The video recording of the 2010 show will stream all weekend, with a Q&A session live with Rova following the Thursday night screening.
The link for viewing will be sent separately closer to the date of the show, and listed at Rova.org.
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Rova Live In-Person Concert!
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Saturday July 24, 7:30 PM
Rova Live at Bird & Beckett Books, SF
Live onstage at the bookstore! Limited seating.
Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
San Francisco 94131
https://birdbeckett.com/events/ongoing-series/
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New Rova CD: The Circumference of Reason
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A new Rova CD, The Circumference of Reason, will be released by ESP-Disk’ later this year. The recording features all new works by Rova members, including our most recent collective effort, “NC-17”. It will be our first CD since In Transverse Time, released in 2018 to coincide with our 40th anniversary. Watch this space for the release date and complete details about Rova’s latest recording.
http://www.espdisk.com/
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New Larry Ochs – Donald Robinson CD – A Civil Right
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Ochs – Robinson Duo
A Civil Right
ESP 5052
Ochs-Robinson Duo Live Concerts
Saturday May 15, 7:30 PM
Live-stream performance from Bird & Beckett
(no live audience)
https://birdbeckett.com/ochs-robinson-5-15-21/
Saturday June 12, 4:00 PM
Live onstage outdoors
The Back Room
1984 Bonita Avenue
Berkeley
Celebrating their just-released CD from ESP-Disk
https://backroommusic.com/events-1/2021/6/12/don-robinson-amp-larry-ochs-outdoors
Friday June 25, 7:00 PM
Live-stream performance from Center for New Music
(no live audience)
One set celebrating the new CD release on ESP
https://centerfornewmusic.com/event/larry-ochs-don-robinson-duo/
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Sunday May 23, 7:30 PM
Live-stream performance from Bird & Beckett
(no live audience)
Thurston Moore-Marshall Trammell-Bruce Ackley Trio + Wobbly
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Marshall Trammell image, Agatha Urbaniak, UK
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Join us for this 1-time special event:
Opening set: Wobbly – solo electronics
Thurston Moore - guitars
Marshall Trammell, Music Research Strategist - percussion
Bruce Ackley - saxophones
For all Bird & Beckett Live Stream Events:
View the live stream on Bird & Beckett’s
YouTube channel and Facebook page
$20 suggested donation or pay what your economics allow at this link
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Sunday May 23, 2:00 PM
Performance: Shoko Hikage performs Music for Koto
https://sfpl.org/events/2021/05/23/performance-shoko-hikage-performs-music-koto
Acclaimed musician Shoko Hikage performs traditional and contemporary music for koto. This virtual performance, sponsored by San Francisco Public Library, will feature works by Yatsuhashi Kengyo, Hyo-shin Na, Tadao Sawai and Jon Raskin. She will perform Raskin’s solo composition for improvisation, in the blur of time. Click on the link above to register for the live-streamed event.
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Sunday ‘Mayhem’ 23, 3:00 – 7:00 PM
duo B. Experimental Band 'Open Studio' Live Online Performance
on KFJC 89.7 FM, hosted by Max Level
The duo B. Experimental Band (dbXB), co-led by Bay Area improviser/composers Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis, invites KFJC listeners into their online improvisation workshop, with a four-hour continuous performance showcasing compositions and structured improvisations by the ensemble's members, created specifically for making music in an online environment. Mezzacappa (bass) and Levis (drums) have been co-leading the large ensemble since December of 2018. In 2020, once Covid made rehearsing and performing in person impossible, dbXB moved online and has been convening weekly for community improvisation workshops. The ensemble uses software and a private server to connect the performers in (almost) real time.
The 18-piece lineup features a stellar lineup of Bay Area players, including Rovas Jon Raskin and Steve Adams.
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About Rova:Arts
Rova:Arts, formed in 1986 to support the activities of Rova, has been instrumental in producing local projects and advancing an ongoing cultural exchange between local Bay Area artists and the international scene through its Rovaté concert series. These events, made possible by funding to Rova:Arts, have engaged Bay Area musicians and composers—as well as musicians from around the world. Rova:Arts projects are often reproduced in other parts of the world, thereby bringing the work to a broader audience. Also, many Rova:Arts events have been recorded, resulting in releases which have been enthusiastically celebrated.
Click here to find out more and to Join Rova:Arts. If you are interested in getting involved in a more hands-on-way, feel free to contact us. Thanks for being part of the art.
Bandcamp! Bandcamp!
We’re now offering both new and impossible to find Rova recordings and other points of interest on our Bandcamp page. Be sure to check out recordings there, including, Saxophone Special, No Favorites, as well as, for example, the long out-of-print 1990 recording Long on Logic that we are making available as a CD download for the first time.
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