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E4TT's seventh multimedia collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music explores the meaning of home with four World Premieres (commissions by emerging composers Max Marcus, Max Tafoya, and Zoe Yost and the winner in the E4TT/SFCM Composition Department multimedia student composition competition), a visual montage of scenes from the U.S. set to four pre-existing responses to "America the Beautiful" by Tyson Gholston Davis, Reena Esmail, Jake Heggie, and Juri Seo, and music by Clarice Assad.

Performed by E4TT (Nanette McGuinness, soprano, cellist Megan Chartier, and pianist Margaret Halbig) joined by violinist Jessica Folsom

THREE COMMISSIONED WORLD PREMIERES

Duo for cello and piano by SFCM faculty and alum Max Marcus. Listen to his Incantations for Orchestra:

Piano trio by SFCM Composition student Max Tafoya. Listen to his Incantation of Blessedness:

A new work by emerging composer Zoe Yost for narrator, piano trio, and paintings. Listen to her Seven Scenes for String Quartet:

AND the winner of the E4TT/SFCM multimedia student composition competition

PLUS a visual montage of scenes from the U.S. set to four solo piano responses to America the Beautiful:

American Tableau(2021) by Tyson Gholston Davis (b. 2000):

America/Desh(2020) by Reena Esmail (b. 1983):

Undiscovered: America the Beautiful(2021) by Jake Heggie (b. 1960):

America the Beautiful - "sotto voce"(2020) by Juri Seo (b. 1981):

The Last Song(2010, arr cello and piano) by Clarice Assad (b. 1978):