Week Three

WM. BRIAN LITTLE CONCERT – BUCOLIC BESTIARY
Friday, August 13, 6:00 pm – Wine tasting and appetizers; 7:00 pm Concert
Channing Sculpture Garden

Special Guest: Alan Alda

The friends and family of Brian Little invite you to enjoy a special musical evening with Alan Alda along with wines from Channing Daughters under our tent at the Channing Sculpture Garden. We’ll encounter Debussy’s famous faun, dreaming suggestive dreams, in a chamber arrangement made for connoisseurs who frequented a private musical society founded by Schoenberg. A “pet chatterbox” comes alive—thanks to San Francisco composer-and-pianist Stephen Prutsman—in a work for piano four-hands. To conclude, we open the doors of Saint-Saëns’ menagerie of lions and tortoises and kangaroos and their kin, in an irresistible interweaving of spoken and musical story-telling.

Program

DEBUSSY
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
STEPHEN PRUTSMAN
Sarah’s Band and Her Pet Chatterbox for Two Pianos (2006)
SAINT-SAËNS
Carnival of the Animals

Artists

Marya Martin, John Snow, Romie de Guise-Langlois, Juliette Kang, Jessica Lee,
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Eric Bartlett, Donald Palma, Pedja Muzijevic, Gilles Vonsattel,
Ayano Kataoka