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Sunday, November 24 · Friday, December 6 · Saturday, December 7

Letter from the Cofounder

Get to Know Us

Dear Audience,

I am so happy to share this program with you! Meghan, Dana, Jose, Cooper and I have been working on it for the better part of the year so it feels amazing to finally have our plans come to fruition! This is such an interesting subject full of musical and literary interactions. On top of an amazing subject, we have also commissioned TWO works by Cooper and José to further illustrate the theme of the cycle. Thank you for making this possible and Happy Holidays!

-- Leah

Cofounder of Insight Chamber

About the Salons

St. Francis Wood Salon Nov. 24 2:30 pm

The St. Francis Wood Salon at 1365 Portola Drive, hosted by Udi and Guy Ledergor, was designed by architect George Ikeda in the 1970s as part of the St. Francis Wood residential park established in 1912. On heavily-forested land remote from downtown San Francisco, the Mason-McDuffie Company sought to create a residence park that embodied the highest ideals of early twentieth century landscaping and architecture. The "City Beautiful" movement, popularized by heralded landscape architect and planner Daniel Burnham, influenced the community plan. Landscape features meant to be "reminiscent of the loveliest gardens of the Italian Renaissance" ornamented the grounds, including an elaborate gateway and two fountains on the main arterial, St. Francis Boulevard. The famed landscape firm Olmsted Brothers laid out the curvilinear street plan. John Galen Howard acted as the first supervising architect, designing the elaborate lampposts, brick-diamond sidewalks, entryway pillars, and the main gate and first fountain. Henry Gutterson soon succeeded Howard, and designed the monumental upper fountain and numerous houses over the next three decades.

The house on 1365 Portola Drive went through several owners and design updates, including its "Chinese Palace" phase, which included a fish pond in its backyard, to its current modern family home design.

Blue Painted Lady Dec. 6 & 7 7:30pm

The Blue Painted Lady is generously hosted by George Patrick Horsfall. Although classical chamber music will be a new experience in this iconic home, this evening's concert continues the tradition of supporting the arts established many years ago by George and his mother, Catherine. For many years the Horsfall's have welcomed Broadway touring companies for evenings of music, warmth and welcome to artists on the road.
Starting in 1993 and well into the new millennia, the Horsfalls also produced and directed a series of sold-out and well-reviewed Cabaret performances of the Great American Songbook, at the Kensington Park Hotel and at the Plush Room at the York hotel
The Blue Painted Lady, #712, is the third home of the row, that was completed, (of seven), by Matthew Kavanagh in 1892-1895. It is arguably, the most intact of these famous homes with regards to original detail. As you listen to the gorgeous music tonight, you will be surrounded by the paintings, rugs and furniture, collected by the Sheehan, Horsfall and Rogers families over the last 173 years in San Francisco. Thank you for being a part of this new page in our home's history.

Program
November 24 · December 6 · December 7

Clair de lune

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Erlkönig

Guided Listening

Louis Spohr (1784-1859)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Intermission

Music, When Soft Voices Die

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

Sappho

World Premieres

José Vargas b. 2001

Cooper Grosscup b. 1994

Gestille

Sehnsucht

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

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Clair de lune

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Your soul is a chosen landscape
Bewitched by masquers and bergamaskers,
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fanciful disguises.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L’amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n’ont pas l’air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Singing as they go in a minor key
Of conquering love and life’s favours,
They do not seem to believe in their fortune
And their song mingles with the light of the moon,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau,
Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

--Paul Verlaine

The calm light of the moon, sad and fair,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
Tall and svelte amid marble statues.

Translations by Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)

Erlkönig

Guided Listening

Louis Spohr (1784-1859)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

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November 24 · December 6 · December 7

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)