Sep 30 - Walden's fiscal year ends
On September 30, Walden’s fiscal year ends. Help us close the year by helping us raise as many dollars as possible.
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A Celebration of The Walden School
September 20, 3:00 – 5:30 pm
A celebration of The Walden School
Peter Pap Oriental Rug Gallery
470 Jackson Street, San Francisco
Please join us in San Francisco for an afternoon benefit concert and reception. Featuring a performance by Cello String Quartet, hors d'oeuvres from Penny Eng, and wine from Grigch Hills Estate and Ridge, all in celebration of The Walden School. RSVP by September 17 to events@waldenschool.org or phone Amy Bryan, Director of Development & Alumni Relations, at 415-692-3840. You may pay at the event, donate online, or mail payment to:
31A 29th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110.
If you are unable to attend, we still welcome your support.
Composer-in-Residence Presentation: Nathaniel Stookey
First commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony at age 17, Nathaniel Stookey has gone on to collaborate with many of the world's great orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Manchester's venerable Hallé: Orchestra, where he was composer-in-residence under Kent Nagano. Stookey's concerto for two violins and strings, Double, was commissioned to represent the year 1999 in the millennial Festival of 999 Years of Music in Sheffield, England, and has since been released on Albany records. In 2006, the San Francisco Symphony commissioned, premiered, and recorded The Composer Is Dead, a sinister guide to the orchestra with narration by Lemony Snicket. "Having created a furor in the United States" ( Hamburger Abendblatt ), the work has since been performed by over 100 orchestras on four continents, and according to BBC commentator Norman Lebrecht, is one of the five most performed classical works of the 21st century, worldwide. His latest orchestral work, Mahlerwerk, commissioned by NDR-Sinfonie (Hamburg) for the final concert of their centennial Mahler cycle, was premiered under Christoph Eschenbach before an audience of 10,000. The Schleswig-Holsteiner Zeitung describes this "crazy puzzle" as an "intelligent, musically very appealing, even exhilarating homage to Gustav Mahler." Stookey's most recent work, String Quartet No. 3 'The Mezzanine' — commissioned and premiered by the Kronos Quartet in 2013 — received critical acclaim for its "wealth of puckish inventions, including an offbeat rhythmic groove that morphs into a tenderly sardonic waltz, and a slow hymn whose harmonies grow and expand in surprising directions" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
Urban Raga Trio
Urban Raga Trio: Nocturne Project
Nocturne is inspired by the North Indian concept that certain ragas express the mood, pathos, and experience of night. This project will synthesize vocabulary from Indian night ragas, western classical nocturne compositions, and contemporary improvisations to create a cross-cultural and dynamic form of night music. Within the context of American creative music, Nocturne evokes abstract themes such as the meditation of a world at rest; night terrors conjured by the imagination; and the slow cadence of blue light melting into darkness.
Urban Raga Trio consists of saxophonist Aakash Mittal, guitarist Matt Fuller, and percussionist Rajna Swaminathan. The concert is FREE and open to the public, and will take place in Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall.
Walden School Open House
Come visit Walden and get a glimpse of what makes this program so special! Featuring a showcase of student performances, faculty demonstrations, ensemble rehearsals, and a special performance by visiting artist, Aakash Mittal and the Urban Raga Trio.
Light appetizers and refreshing beverages will be served.
Spektral String Quartet performs Beethoven Op. 132, Steve Reich Different Trains
The Walden School and Monadnock Music are co-presenting the Spektral String Quartet in what is sure to be an electric concert of quartet masterworks. FREE and open to the public, followed by a reception in the Schoolhouse on the campus of the Dublin School. The concert takes place in the Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall.
“…a spine-tingling interpretation … hands down one of the most impressive performances of the year.”
-TimeOut Chicago
“…vitalizing [the Chicago] scene in a big way”
-The Chicago Tribune
“…leading the charge toward progressive, high-caliber contemporary classical music”
-The Chicago Reader
“The Spektral ensemble has a special knack for finding a satisfying balance of style, soul and seriousness.”
-Chicago Classical Review
Spektral String Quartet with Tim Munro, flutes
Every summer, Walden faculty are commissioned by The Walden School and a visiting ensemble. In 2014, eight faculty composers (Loretta Notareschi, Marguerite Ladd, Osnat Netzer, Sky Macklay, Alex Christie, Ian Munro, Ted Moore, and Caroline Mallonée) will have world premieres of their music performed on what promises to be an incredible concert of newly created music.
This concert is FREE and Open to the Public!
Find out more about Chicago Symphony flutist Tim Munro here.
Find out more about the Spektral Quartet here.
“…a spine-tingling interpretation … hands down one of the most impressive performances of the year.”
-TimeOut Chicago
“…vitalizing [the Chicago] scene in a big way”
-The Chicago Tribune
“…leading the charge toward progressive, high-caliber contemporary classical music”
-The Chicago Reader
“The Spektral ensemble has a special knack for finding a satisfying balance of style, soul and seriousness.”
-Chicago Classical Review
Indiegogo Campaign
Help us put the SING back in fundrai-SING!
Join our Indiegogo campaign, May 15th - June 27th, and support the 2014 Young Musicians Program Chorus.
At The Walden School, choral singing is the glue that binds us. All faculty, staff, students, and members of the administration participate in several choral groups, as well as the all-school chorus. This special facet of the Young Musicians Program brings everyone together in the same room, at the same time, working on the same activity. Memories of a lifetime are made in chorus.
Help support this unparalleled program and join our campaign today. And please spread the word! Check our Indiegogo page regularly for updates.
Walden Wins Again
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript writes of Walden receiving the 2014 CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award.
JCC/Walden School Holiday Parties
Attention alumni, parents, faculty, staff, donors and friends! Walden holiday parties are coming to a city near you. For more information, visit the Walden alumni website at www.handoverhand.org. Hope you will be able to celebrate the holidays with us!