Reminder: Harvey Milk Cantata Discussion @ Fri Jun 22 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Harvey Milk Cantata Discussion LESBIAN / GAY CHORUS OF SAN FRANCISCO and LICK WILMERDING CHORUSES present HARVEY MILK: A CANTATA World Premiere Featuring unreleased texts by Harvey Milk Friday June 22, 2012 6pm pre-concert talk Friday June 22, 2012 7pm Friday June 22, 2012 9pm San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 BOX OFFICE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/240004 Ticket Prices: $15-30 (advance tickets). $20 at the door. The Lesbian / Gay Chorus of San Francisco and Lick-Wilmerding High School Choruses sing the world premiere of Harvey Milk: A Cantata, a new choral work by Jack Curtis Dubowsky featuring unreleased texts by Harvey Milk. The 20 minute Harvey Milk for mixed chorus and piano was jointly commissioned by the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and Lick Wilmerding High School, with the cooperation of the Estate of Harvey Milk and the Harvey Milk Archives of the Scott Smith Collection of the San Francisco Public Library. Susan Goldstein, City Archivist of San Francisco, gave Conductor and Artistic Director William Sauerland full access to Milk's original papers, which yielded texts that have never been published before. Sauerland's research was assisted by Tim Wilson, the archivist of the Harvey Milk collection. Texts were compiled and edited by Sauerland and composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky. The final cantata text is entirely by Milk, culled from both well-known speeches as well as rare documents. The Estate of Harvey Milk granted special permission for the use of these texts. There will be two world premieres: June 22, 2012 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and July 9, 2012 at the GALA Choruses Festival in Denver, CO. In San Francisco, a pre-concert talk features San Francisco City Archivist Susan Goldstein, Harvey Milk Collection archivist Tim Wilson, composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, and conductor / artistic director William Sauerland. Harvey Milk was a community activist and the first openly gay man elected to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk successfully rallied the state against the homophobic Briggs Initiative, and was able to bridge disparate communities as well as labor groups. Milk served in the U.S. Navy, worked on Broadway, and earned the nickname "Mayor of Castro Street" in San Francisco where he ran a camera shop. Milk was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978. Milk's life has had a lasting influence upon civil rights and politics, and has inspired two biographies, two feature films, and an opera. http://www.annualprideconcert.org/ http://www.lgcsf.org http://www.jackcurtisdubowsky.com http://www.destijlmusic.com When Fri Jun 22 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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