Second round of the GOAT HALL PRODUCTIONS Fresh Voices XIV Festival of New Works: Taken, at San Francisco Community Music Center, again with
Helena Michelson's It Isn't Music That...,
John G. Bilotta's
Rosetta's Stone,
Richard Bagwell's
To Hell with Heroes,
Aldan Jenks's Ghost Songs,
Yvonne Freckman's
Close Encounters of the Hillbilly Kind, and
Mark Alburger's
Abducted by Aliens --
and a good time is
seemingly had
by
all...
Upon
return
from
the
merry-go-round
of west
and
east, begin Op. 229 -- Sex and the Species (troped on Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre) -- on the 121st day of summer, high 91 (71st 80-or-better, 33rd 90+), though quite spring-fall cool in the city, down three points to 69.