March 30, 2009
Homage to French and Italian Spectralists at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Great black-and-white photographs have an integrity of texture that color would only obscure. In a program titled “Moving pictures, picture music,” the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players subsumed orchestral color for contrast, exploring a wealth of shades from ephemeral to nitty-gritty.
Alessandro Solbiati’s 2006 Sestetto à Gérard (Sextet for Gerard) played gossamer phantasms—ghost tones and muted strings—against the solidity of bass clarinet warmed by flute....