Photo by Steve Ness
Earplay is winding up its 29th season on May 19, a concert preceded by a "New Music & YOU" presentation on May 15.
To begin with the latter, it offers Vera Ivanova, 2013 Earplay Aird composition prize winner, in conversation with Earplay host Bruce Bennett. The event is in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design, at the museum, 893B Folsom St. It is free for MP+D members and Earplay subscribers, for others, admission is $12, tickets available at the door.
The Monday concert, in the ODC Theater has a fancy title, "originality really means being true to one's self," and it offers premieres by John MacCallum and Reynold Tharp, the 2011 Three Studies in Uneven Meters by the above-mentioned Ivanova, and the rarely-performed Eleven Echoes of Autumn by George Crumb.