Concert News & Program

 

 

You are invited to join us for

 

 2005 Chrysalis Concerts 

 

Saturday, December 3rd, 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 4th, 4 p.m.

 

Chrysalis New Music Studio

 

(SOMA between Harrison and Folsom, Fifth and Sixth.)

 

Come experience the resonance of live music in just intonation.

 

These concerts will feature music composed by Cris Forster

for seven original acoustic instruments, played by the Chrysalis Ensemble. 

Joining the ensemble for these concerts are five musicians who have participated in our internship program, funded by a generous grant from the

Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.

 

The music comes from two of Cris Forster’s large works. 

The first is Song of Myself: Intoned Poems of Walt Whitman. 

Mr. Forster will intone four of the Whitman poems, accompanied by

ensemble musicians playing Chrysalis and Harmonic/Melodic Canon.

 

The second featured work is

Ellis Island/Angel Island: A Vision of the American Immigrants. 

Excerpts to be performed include solo pieces for Glassdance,

Diamond Marimba, and Just Keys, (a piano tuned in just intonation),

as well as two ensemble pieces. One of these is the premiere of a Quartet featuring Glassdance, Just Keys, Bass Canon, and Bass Marimba, recently completed by Cris Forster for the Chrysalis Ensemble.

 

$10.00 general admission

      $8.00 seniors and students

 

Since seating at the Chrysalis New Music Studio is limited,

we are asking concert-goers to make reservations in advance by

 

sending an email to info@chrysalis-foundation.org.

 

Please include your name, the number of people attending, the preferred performance date, and a contact phone number or email.

 

(Your personal contact information is safe with us.)

 

We will include you on our guest list,

and you may pay for your tickets at the door.

 

Tickets will be available at the door by reservation only.

 

 

 

 

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Dear Reader,

 

          Since July 2002, more than 250,000 visitors have logged on to www.chrysalis-foundation.org.  Your interest has encouraged us to plan a self-publication of Cris Forster's manuscript Musical Mathematics: A Practice in the Mathematics of Tuning Instruments and Analyzing Scales.  To accomplish this task, we will be applying to organizations and individuals for grants.  Our goal is to publish a complete and unabridged first edition of 500 copies, with a retail cost of $90.00 per book.  If you would like more information on Mr. Forster's 1300-page manuscript, please visit our Musical Mathematics page, which shows the Table of Contents of this work. 

 

          If you would like to see Musical Mathematics in print, please write to us so that we may include your emails and letters in our grant applications.  Kindly let us know whether you are a musician, student, teacher, professor, instrument builder, etc., and indicate any institutional affiliations you may have.  Your name and email address will only appear in confidential grant applications.  We will honor anyone's wish to remain anonymous.

 

Please send your email to:

 

info@chrysalis-foundation.org

 

or send your letter to:

 

The Chrysalis Foundation

1459 18th Street, PMB #137

San Francisco, CA 94107

 

          Thank you for your interest and support of the Chrysalis Foundation book publication project.

 

The Board of Directors