A CONCERT CELEBRATING THERICH HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLEFOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

FRIDAY, SEPT 24, 20108 PM · FREE ADMISSIONat Ebenezer/HerChurch Lutheran678 Portola Drive, San FranciscoPOST-CONCERT RECEPTION

SAN FRANCISCOLESBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND

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FLUTE / PICCOLOTaka AokiRuth KeysJason LeBrunLia MetzSteven MillerGreg PotterRobert Strouf

CLARINETPatrick BurtonLee FranckeDouglas HallKathy HennigDoug LitwinDanessa MillerDonella OlsenMarti PhillipsChauncey RoachDavid Tucker

BASS CLARINETRick Rowland

CONTRA-ALTO CLARINETJeff Bowles

OBOEKeith SklowerStardust

BASSOONBarbara JonesLeigh Korn

ALTO SAXOPHONEGuy DanusScott Schelp

TENOR SAXOPHONEBuddy Symes

BARI SAX & PIANOPatty Cummings

FRENCH HORNKathleen FlanaganTyler FongRodney LinebargerBruce SinorMichael WongJonathan Young

EUPHONIUMMax KogutKevin Tam

TRUMPETHeidi BeelerBradley ConnlainSue LeonardiGinnie PadgettMike SeseJulie Ann Yuen

TROMBONEGary BarberBilly GreenDaniel Weinstein

TUBAMike Mehr

PERCUSSIONJune BonacichSally Canjura-ClaytonLinda HitchcockMark SaccomanoCynthia SeagrenNeila WatersLinda Werner

band roster

DAY T I M E S HOWS FO R K I D S O F A L L AG E S

Saturday, December 1 1: 2:30 PM · Sunday, December 12: 11 AM + 3 PM

GAY-la! An Evening of Naughty NauticalsBURLESQUE · COCKTAILS · “MIDNIGHT” BUFFET · DANCING

Saturday, December 1 1 · 7 PMYerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St at 3rd, SFwww.DanceAlongNutcracker.org BOX OFFICE: 415 978-2787

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Les Misérables, Selections. . . . . . . . . . . . .CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERGARR. WARREN BARKER (1987)

We Are The Ones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Singers of the Street with friends from MCC-SF’s Worship & Praise Team and Morning Choir

Dry Your Tears, Afrika (from Amistad). . . . . . . . . . . JOHN WILLIAMS (1997)Singers of the Street with friends from MCC-SF’s Worship & Praise Team and Morning Choir

A Movement for Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARK CAMPHOUSE (1992)

Lincoln Portrait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AARON COPLAND (1942)

Matt Prather, narrator

I N T E RM I S S I ON

Freedom Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER HIGDON (2000)

Trail of Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES BARNES (1990)

Morning Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID MASLANKA (1997)

March of the Women Marines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LOUIS SAVERINO (1943)

program

POEM BY BARNARD DADIÉ,ADAPTED BY AUDREY SNYDER

TRANS. WALTER BEELER

Matt Prather Currently a member of the San Francisco Gay Menʼs Chorus and theGolden Gate Menʼs Chorus, Matt canʼt remember a time when performing wasnʼt aprimary focus in his life. For the past 32 years, Mattʼs bass-baritone voice has narratedpublic service announcements, airport-subway recordings and automated telephonesystems (which he also designs), sung and acted opera, operetta and musicaltheatre, been part ofvarious choruses, and even helped him in the Great HusbandHunt. Mattʼs choral/orchestral compositions and arrangements have been performedby Seattle Menʼs Chorus, Sacramento Menʼs Chorus, Denver Menʼs Chorus, CincinnatiMenʼs Chorus, Seattle Womenʼs Chorus, Twin Cities Gay Menʼs Chorus, and the SanFrancisco Gay Manʼs Chorus. He is delighted and honoured to be making his debutperformance with the SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band tonight.

Singers of the Street (S.O.S.) is a new choir for people who are homeless ordisadvantaged, and those who support them. Their first rehearsal was September 8thand tonight is their first public appearance. The mission of S.O.S. is to raise voices forjustice, healing and joy. Directed by Dr. Kathleen McGuire, S.O.S. is modeled on similar choirs operating in Australia and the UK. S.O.S. meets at 150 Eureka Street near18th Street in the Castro every Wednesday, 11 am - 1 pm, and a free lunch is provided.All are welcome! S.O.S. is supplemented tonight by members of the MetropolitanCommunity Church’s Choir of Many Names, directed by Ryan Connolly, and the MCCWorship and Praise Team directed by Stephanie Lynne Smith. For more informationabout S.O.S., visit: www.singersofthestreet.org.

Jadine Louie is a teacher, conductor, and performer’s coach. A proponent of thearts as a vital part of community health and a way to move from rhetoric or apathy toaction, she was named the Bay Guardian’s Best Justification for Music in the Schools.Conducting and coaching credits include: Team Band at the Chicago Gay Games,Oakland Civic Orchestra, Symphonic Tornado Wind Ensemble, All-City Honor Orchestra,SF Recreation Symphony, Swingfever Big Band, Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic,Golden Gate Opera, Women’s Community Orchestra, and Prometheus Symphony.

SFLGFB was founded in 1978 by Jon Sims at the height of Anita Bryant’s anti-gaycrusade. The world’s first openly gay music organization, the Band inspired the formationof lesbian and gay bands, choruses and performing troupes around the world. In addition to presenting free community concerts, the Band appears in civic eventsand parades year round. Find out more at www.sflgfb.org. If you’d like to join us as a musician or volunteer, please email us at sflgfb@sflgfb.org.

SPECIAL THANKS to all the volunteers and friends of the Band whohelped make this program possible! The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band isa 501(c)3 nonprofit, funded in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco HotelTax Fund and Jon Sims Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts.

Marines! We are the women members of a fighting corps.Marines! The name is known from burning sands to ice-bound shore.Marines! We serve that men may fight in air, on land, and sea.Marines! The eagle, globe and anchor carries on to make men free.

Disclaimer: The words above are the actual lyrics to the official march of the Marine Corps Women's Reserves. The views expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent SFLGFB or its affiliates.

A CONCERT CELEBRATING THERICH HISTORY OF THE STRUGGLEFOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

FRIDAY, SEPT 24, 20108 PM · FREE ADMISSIONat Ebenezer/HerChurch Lutheran678 Portola Drive, San FranciscoPOST-CONCERT RECEPTION

SAN FRANCISCOLESBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND

freedomdreams

FLUTE / PICCOLOTaka AokiRuth KeysJason LeBrunLia MetzSteven MillerGreg PotterRobert Strouf

CLARINETPatrick BurtonLee FranckeDouglas HallKathy HennigDoug LitwinDanessa MillerDonella OlsenMarti PhillipsChauncey RoachDavid Tucker

BASS CLARINETRick Rowland

CONTRA-ALTO CLARINETJeff Bowles

OBOEKeith SklowerStardust

BASSOONBarbara JonesLeigh Korn

ALTO SAXOPHONEGuy DanusScott Schelp

TENOR SAXOPHONEBuddy Symes

BARI SAX & PIANOPatty Cummings

FRENCH HORNKathleen FlanaganTyler FongRodney LinebargerBruce SinorMichael WongJonathan Young

EUPHONIUMMax KogutKevin Tam

TRUMPETHeidi BeelerBradley ConnlainSue LeonardiGinnie PadgettMike SeseJulie Ann Yuen

TROMBONEGary BarberBilly GreenDaniel Weinstein

TUBAMike Mehr

PERCUSSIONJune BonacichSally Canjura-ClaytonLinda HitchcockMark SaccomanoCynthia SeagrenNeila WatersLinda Werner

band roster

DAY T I M E S HOWS FO R K I D S O F A L L AG E S

Saturday, December 1 1: 2:30 PM · Sunday, December 12: 11 AM + 3 PM

GAY-la! An Evening of Naughty NauticalsBURLESQUE · COCKTAILS · “MIDNIGHT” BUFFET · DANCING

Saturday, December 1 1 · 7 PMYerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St at 3rd, SFwww.DanceAlongNutcracker.org BOX OFFICE: 415 978-2787

DANCE-ALONGNUTCRACKER AT SEA

®

SSaann FFrraanncciissccoo LLeessbbiiaann//GGaayy FFrreeeeddoomm BBaanndd’’ss 22OO11OO