22 November 2023

Another Opening, Another Show: December 2023

So we come to the end of another year, at least as far as the calendar is concerned; for most performance groups, it's nearing halfway through the season, & of course Time itself is an arbitrary construct. Philosophizing aside, there's a lot going on this month (especially among choruses & baroque music specialists; very few solo instrumentalists, though!), almost all of it linked to the holidays in some way; I started to put such things in a separate section but soon realized it would be easier to put the non-holiday events separately (I ended up not doing that either, though I did pull out Messiahs, meaning full performances not just excerpts, & Nutcrackers, meaning danced ones, though there are at least two performances this month of the Ellington / Strayhorn jazzed up suite). After all, holiday performances can be a liminal space, & a play or concert that isn't full-on Deck the Halls could be something festive that will lift your spirits, & I'm sure I'm not the only one who could use with some spirit-lifting this year.

Here's an unclassifiable event to help move on from this year & usher in the next: on New Year's Eve, The Asian Art Museum will host the 38th Annual Japanese New Year Bell-Ringing Ceremony; here's the description from their site (where you can also get a ticket if you'd like to ring the bell yourself): "Ring in the New Year by taking a swing at a 2,100-pound, 16th-century Japanese temple bell. Led by Reverend Gengo Akiba, this inspiring ceremony will include a purification ritual and chanting of the Buddhist Heart Sutra. Visitors will have an opportunity to ring the bell to leave behind any unfortunate experiences, regrettable deeds, or ill luck from the year. The bell will be struck 108 times to usher in the New Year and curb the 108 mortal desires (bonno) that, according to Buddhist belief, torment humankind."

Theatrical

Theater of Yugen presents two short kyōgen plays (in English), Fukuro Yamabushi (The Owl Mountain Priest), & Act 2 of Ben Jonson's Volpone, a new Kyogen adaptation by Lluís Valls (part of a full-length adaptation in development), on 1 - 3 December at NOHSpace.

New Conservatory Theater Center presents the musical Ruthless! (book & lyrics by Joel Paley, music by Marvin Laird, directed by Dyan McBride, musical direction by Joe Wicht, choreographed by Staci Arriaga), which sounds like a combination of All About Eve, The Bad Seed, & Macbeth, from 1 December through 7 January; for a perhaps more traditional holiday show, NCTC is presenting Katya, A Holiday Spectacular, featuring J Conrad Frank as Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, from 20 to 22 December.

BroadwaySF presents Mamma Mia!, the ABBA musical, at the Golden Gate Theater from 5 to 10 December; I saw the movies a few years ago, & they were fun, though maybe not as much fun as I'd hoped.

ACT's annual production of A Christmas Carol, adapted by Carey Perloff & Paul Walsh & directed by Peter J Kuo, runs at the Toni Rembe Theater (formerly the Geary Theater) from 6 to 24 December.

BroadwaySF presents A Drag Queen Christmas at the Curran Theater on 9 December.

BroadwaySF brings Aaron Sorkin’s Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, directed by Bartlett Sher & starring Richard Thomas, to the Golden Gate Theater from 12 to 17 December.

Theater Rhinoceros presents Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory, performed by Sandra Schlechter & directed by Rica Anderson, on 13 December.

The Lorraine Hansberry Theater presents Soulful Christmas, with musical direction by Yvonne Cobbs & stage direction by Margot Hall, at Fort Mason 14 to 17 December.

​BroadwaySF presents Million Dollar Quartet Christmas, featuring 1950s rock, at the Curran Theater from 15 to 17 December.

The African-American Shakespeare Company presents its annual Cinderella, directed by Sherri Young, at Herbst Theater from 15 to 17 December.

Guys & Dolls will be running at San Francisco Playhouse through 13 January 2024.

Sex, Camp, Rock N' Roll, a "musical, cabaret fantasy" starring Ryan Patrick Welsh, will be presented by Shotgun Players at the Ashby Stage on 5, 18, & 19 December.

John Waters brings his annual one-man Christmas show, A John Waters Christmas - Let's Blow \It Up, to the Great American Music Hall on 30 November.

Operatic

Before the Nutcracker takes over the War Memorial Opera House, you can catch the last two performances of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at the San Francisco Opera on 5 & 9 December (there is also a performance, sort of, on 1 December, billed as The Elixir of Love Encounter, in which only Act 1 of the opera is performed & then you're supposed to go to a party in the lobby; personally I don't really get the appeal, especially as the opera's most famous aria is in the second half. But then I am not really a Party Person. Maybe if they want detachable Act Ones, the Walkure Experience is coming our way?).

The Future Is Now, in which the current group of Adler Fellows will perform operatic arias & scenes, will take place on 2 December at Herbst Theater with Ramón Tebar conducting, but as with the Merola presentations this summer, & unlike the San Francisco Opera mainstage productions, the website does not allow you to choose your own seat, which I find inexplicable in 2023. I suppose if you're picky about where you sit (I am, very much so) you could call the Box Office at (415) 864-3330, or you could just do something else with your time & money because WHAT THE HELL IS THIS I DON'T NEED MORE COMPLICATIONS IN MY LIFE.

Philharmonia Baroque will perform Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, conducted by John Butt & featuring Nicole Heaston as Dido, Matthew Brook as Aeneas, Nardus Williams as Belinda, & Allison Cook as the Sorceress, on 2 December (two performances, afternoon & evening) at First Congregational in Berkeley.

On 5 December at the Berkeley City Club, Berkeley Chamber Performances presents the world premiere of Einstein at Princeton, a chamber opera by Allen Shearer & Claudia Stevens, with the Strata Trio & Trio Solano; the opera focuses on the women in Einstein's life during his final years at Princeton; in addition to the opera, the Strata Trio will also perform works by Mozart & Bartók.

Choral

Pacific Edge Voices will perform Canciones de Luz – Songs of Light, a holiday program concentrating on Spanish works, featuring "Argentinian, Basque and Mexican works in Spanish and Indigenous languages from across the Americas and beyond, and the music will include drums, guitar, harpsichord and more!"; that's 3 December at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco & 8 December at First Congregational in Berkeley.

The International Orange Chorale gives us Holidays with a Twist, its first-ever holiday concert, on 1 December at Christ Church in Berkeley, 2 December at Saint Matthew's Lutheran in San Francisco, & 10 December at the 222 in Healdsburg.

Sacred & Profane offers Reflections of Peace, featuring explorations of inner & outer peace from Josquin des Prez, Arvo Pärt, Trevor Weston, Amy Beach, Knut Nystedt, Fredrik Sixten, Martin Åsander, Ken Burton, Karin Rehnqvist, Nick Weininger, Sanford Dole, & Kirke Mechem, & that's 1 December at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley, 2 December at Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal in San Francisco, & 3 December at Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa.

New Chorus Director John Keene leads the San Francisco Opera Chorus in concert at the Taube Atrium Theater on 8 December (seating is general admission).

Old First Concerts presents Light and Love from the Ragazzi Boys Chorus, Silicon Valley, led by Kent Jue, on 10 December.

Valérie Sainte-Agathe leads the San Francisco Girls Chorus, with special guest Sam Reider, in folk songs of the world, on 11 December at Davies Hall.

The Golden Gate Men's Chorus offers Star of Wonder, featuring "shimmering winter anthems, joyful carols, and sentimental holiday classics" on 14, 16, 17, & 19 December at Saint Matthew's Lutheran in San Francisco (near Mission Dolores).

Old First Concerts presents the Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco, led by Matthew Otto, in their annual Carols by Candlelight concert on 15 December.

Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble performs its annual Wintersongs concerts on 15 - 16 December at Saint Paul's in Oakland & 17 December in San Francisco at Old First Church.

Chanticleer tours its annual Christmas concert around many local towns; they will be in the Bay Area on 17 December at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, 19 December at First Church in Berkeley, & 23 December at Saint Ignatius in San Francisco.

Cal Performances presents the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday Spectacular on 17 December in Zellerbach Hall.

Vocalists

On 3 December at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Catherine Cook & Rhoslyn Jones, with pianist Alex Katsman, give a faculty vocal recital including pieces by Copland, Handel, Heggie, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, & others. 

Lieder Alive! presents mezzo-soprano Alice Chung with pianist Peter Grünberg (& special guest Paul Yarbrough on viola) performing the Brahms Liebestreu, Sapphische Ode, Feldeinsamkeit, Zwei Gesänge, Opus 91, D’amour l’ardente flamme from Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, & Mahler's Rückert-Lieder at the Noe Valley Ministry on 10 December.

Kiki & Herb (Justin Vivian Bond & Kenny Mellman) bring their Christmas cabaret to the Castro Theater on 15 December, as part of their national O Come Let Us Adore Them tour.

Messiah

Jonathan Cohen conducts the San Francisco Symphony in Messiah with soloists Joélle Harvey (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), & Michael Sumuel (bass) on 8 - 9 December at Davies Hall.

Jeffrey Thomas leads the American Bach Soloists in their annual performance of Messiah at Grace Cathedral, featuring Mary Wilson (soprano), Eric Jurenas (countertenor), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), & Jesse Blumberg (baritone), on 14 - 15 December.

Urs Leonhardt Steiner leads the Golden Gate Symphony in their annual Sing It Yourself Messiah, with soloists Michelle Cipollone (soprano), Crystal Philippi (mezzo-soprano), Meté Tasin (tenor), & Bradley Kynard (baritone), on 17 December at the Clock Tower in Benecia & 18 December at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Orchestral

The San Francisco Symphony has its usual array of holiday-themed concerts (all programs at Davies Hall): Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads Deck the Hall, an eclectic array of classic & newish holiday music, including sing-alongs, on 3 December; Daniel Stewart leads the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra in Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf, with narrator Tom Kenny, along with other popular Christmas pieces, on 10 December (matinee); Mariachi Sol de México® de José Hernández give us a Merry-achi Christmas on 10 December (evening); Gail Deadrick leads the Symphony & vocalists Oleta Adams, Peabo Bryson, Jennifer Holliday, Ruben Studdard, & the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (directed by Terrance Kelly) in The Colors of Christmas on 13 - 14 December; Edwin Outwater is conductor & co-emcee, along with Peaches Christ (the other co-emcee), Bianca Del Rio (drag performer), Nikola Printz (mezzo-soprano & aerialist), Renée Lubin (vocalist), Sister Roma (drag performer), Dylan Mulvaney (vocalist), Rory Davies and Michael Phillis (from the cast of Baloney), & the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in Holiday Gaiety on 15 December; Lawrence Loh guides A Charlie Brown Christmas – Live!, an enactment of the beloved Peanuts TV special, along with various other Christmas pieces, on 20 -23 December; & Edwin Outwater leads members of the Symphony in Holiday Brass on 21 December.

On 9 December at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Vinay Parameswaran leads the SFCM Orchestra in Rossini's Overture to Semiramide, Mary Kouyoumdjian's Walking With Ghosts (with Jeff Anderle, for whom the concerto was written, on bass clarinet), & the Beethoven 3, the Eroica.

Omid Zoufonoun conducts the Oakland Symphony in their annual Let Us Break Bread Together holiday concert, this year featuring songs associated with the late, great Tina Turner; & that's 10 December at the Paramount Theater.

New Century Chamber Orchestra, led by violinist Daniel Hope, joined by trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary (making her American debut) & Jesse Barrett on English horn, give us Christmas Ornaments, a program including Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #3, his Violin Concerto #1, Corelli's Concerto grosso in G minor, Opus 6, #8, Christmas, Johann B G Neruda's Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major, Aaron Copland's Quiet City, & a medley of traditional Christmas carols arranged by Paul Bateman, & that's 15 December at First Congregational in Berkeley, 16 December at Saint Stephen's Episcopal in Tiburon, & 17 December at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco.

One Found Sound offers Holiday Pop Rox, hosted by OFS member Jesse Barrett, who will be joined by drag performers Nicki J & Obsidienne Obsurd in a program of what they promise are our favorite holiday tunes, along with "immersive visual experiences" by filmmaker Max Savage, on 9 December at Little Boxes Theater in San Francisco.

Jory Fankuchen leads the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of Sumi Tonooka's Sketch at Seven, along with the Schumann Cello Concerto in A Minor (with soloist Sara Flexer) & the Schubert 9, The Great C Major, & that's 29 December at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco, 31 December at First Congregational in Berkeley, & 1 January 2024 at First United Methodist in Palo Alto.

Chamber Music

The San Francisco Symphony has a chamber music concert, featuring Alexander Barantschik (violin), Peter Wyrick (cello), & Anton Nel (piano & harpsichord) playing pieces by Bach & Schubert on 3 December at the Legion of Honor.

On 5 December, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music hosts Chamber Music Tuesday with the Esmé Quartet; the quartet will be joined by Conservatory students to perform works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, & Tchaikovsky (Souvenirs of Florence).

On 7 December at the Uzay Gallery in San Francisco, the Friction Quartet will combine new & old in a program featuring music by Phillipe de Vitry, Tielman Susato, Pérotin, Trey Spruance, Arvo Pärt, & Ottorino Respighi.

Pianist Ian Scarfe joins with violinist Antoine van Dongen, violist Ben Simon, & cellist Samsun van Loon (all of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra) to play Beethoven's first String Trio & the Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, & that's 4 December at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.

On 17 December in Davies Hall, a chamber ensemble from the San Francisco Symphony will perform works by Mozart, Brahms, Arnold Bax, & Aleksey Igudesman.

Instrumentalists

San Francisco Performances presents the Beijing Guitar Duo, performing music by Franck, Debussy, Fauré, Granados, Albéniz, & Piazzolla at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco on 2 December.

Early / Baroque Music

Paul Flight, leader of the California Bach Society, has compiled a Christmas narrative from works by Johann Rosenmüller, & you can hear it 1 December at Saint Gregory of Nyssa in San Francisco, 2 December at All Saints' Episcopal in Palo Alto, & 3 December at Saint Mark's Episcopal in Berkeley.

As part of its ongoing series on Jews & Music, Philharmonia Baroque, led by Francesco Spagnolo (Jews & Music Scholar in Residence), Richard Egarr (harpsichord & conductor), & Valérie Sainte-Agathe (choral director) will perform selections from Salamone Rossi's Hashirim Asher Li-Shlomo (The Songs of Solomon), along with music by Monteverdi, including the lament from L’Arianna, & that's 4 December at the Green Room of the Veterans Building in the War Memorial complex.

Philharmonia Baroque brings us Six Centuries of Christmas, led by Richard Egarr, with seasonal music from Sweelinck, Vivaldi, John Tavener & John Taverner, Johann Pachelbel, Theodore Pachelbel, Biber, Schmelzer, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Giovanni Gabrieli, & Andrea Gabrieli, along with a world premiere from Roderick Williams, & that's 7 December at Herbst Theater, 8 December at Bing Concert Hall at Stanford, & 9 December (matinee & evening) at First Congregational in Berkeley.

Jeffrey Thomas leads the American Bach Soloists in A Baroque Christmas, featuring the Christmas sections of Messiah as well as other pieces by Handel & Charpentier's Midnight Mass, with vocal quartet Mary Wilson (soprano), Eric Jurenas (countertenor), Steven Brennfleck (tenor), & Jesse Blumberg (baritone), on 13 December at Grace Cathedral.

Cal Performances brings us the Tallis Scholars with a Christmas program, While Shepherds Watched, centering on a mass by Clemens Non Papa, as well as pieces by Victoria, de Cristo, Croce, Obrecht, & Philips, at First Congregational in Berkeley on 13 December.

Voices of Music presents Entertainment for Elizabeth, "Renaissance music from the court of Elizabeth I, including music by William Byrd for his 400th anniversary", featuring Voices of the Viol & soprano Molly Netter, on 15 December at First United Methodist in Palo Alto, 16 December at Saint Mark's Lutheran in San Francisco, & 17 December at First Congregational in Berkeley.

Jeffrey Thomas & his American Bach Soloists bring us a Baroque New Year's Eve at the Opera, with soprano Maya Kherani & bass-baritone Christian Pursell singing arias from operas by Handel, Graun, & Rameau, & that's, of course, 31 December, at Herbst Theater.

Jazz, Latin, Folk, Roots, & Blues

Bruce Cockburn appears at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on 1 December.

Melba's Kitchen, "the all women big band celebrating Black musical geniuses Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams, and their friends", will be joined by pianist Tammy Hall to perform a festive program at Freight & Salvage on 7 December; there will be swing-dance lessons before the performance, & the dance floor will be open.

Cal Performances presents keyboardist Matthew Whitaker at Zellerbach Playhouse on 8 December.

The Third Annual Black Women's Roots Festival, hosted by Viveca Hawkins & featuring The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, Mary Stallings, Kito Kamili, Miko Marks, & Alecia Harger, will take place at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on 10 December.

The band Mr Sun will perform their version (sometimes faithful, sometimes inspired by) the Ellington / Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite on 13 December at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.

Old First Concerts presents Golden Bough (Margie Butler, Paul Espinoza & Kathy Sierra) performing Christmas in a Celtic Land on 16 December.

The Christmas Jug Band, featuring "musical holiday wackiness", will perform at Freight & Salvage on 19 December.

Violinist / composer Mads Tolling & The Mads Men are having a Cool Yule CD Release concert, featuring holiday tunes from Nordic & American pop traditions, on 20 December at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.

Local Latin band Mario y su Timbeko will be hosting a Holiday Dance Party on 22 December at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley.

SF Jazz has a solid line-up of holiday-type shows: Pink Martini featuring China Forbes does its cosmopolitan Christmas thing from 28 November to 3 December; drummer Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O appears on 8 December; trumpeter Etienne Charles presents a Creole / Caribbean Christmas on 9 December; Los Angeles ensemble Tres Souls performs Latin-style holiday music on 9 December; trumpeter Jonathan Dely plays Wynton Marsalis's Crescent City Christmas Card on 14 December; the Klezmatics perform music from their album Happy Joyous Hanukkah on 14 December; singer Halie Loren performs songs from her album Many Times, Many Ways: A Holiday Collection on 15 December; the Spanish Harlem Orchestra offers "a night of holiday fun with a dash of salsa picante" on 15 December; pianist Adam Shulman, along with John Wiitala on bass & James Gallagher on drums, pay tribute to Vince Guaraldi's music for A Charlie Brown Christmas on 16 December (there's a family matinee in the morning with members of the San Francisco Girls Chorus as special guests & then matinee & evening performances); guitarist & singer George Cole & his trio performs music from Nat "King" Cole's The Magic of Christmas on 16 - 17 December; the Marcus Shelby New Orchestra, joined by vocalist Tiffany Austin, play the Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn jazz version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, along with other holiday music & Black spirituals, on 17 December; & then ring in the new year from 28 to 31 December with Monsieur Periné's blend of Django Reinhardt's French jazz manouche style with Latin American dance rhythms.

Dance

Cal Performances presents the Urban Bush Women in the Bay Area premiere of Hair & Other Stories, choreographed & directed by co-artistic directors Chanon Judson & Mame Diarra Speis, a "full-length dance-theater work exploring race, identity, and concepts of beauty through the lens of Black women’s hair" & you can experience that 1 - 3 December at Zellerbach Playhouse.

ODC revives its annual holiday performances of The Velveteen Rabbit, directed & choreographed by KT Nelson, from 2 - 10 December at the Yerba Buena Center.

Kathy Mata Ballet's Winter Holiday Showcase will be held at the ODC Theater on 10 December.

Smuin Ballet revives The Christmas Ballet from 14 to 24 December at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco.

Nutcrackers

Ming Luke leads San Francisco Symphony in selections from the Nutcracker with dancing by Troupe Vertigo on 5 - 6 December at Davies Hall.

City Ballet San Francisco, headed by Galina Alexandrovna, presents The Nutcracker 9 - 10 December at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Ballet performs The Nutcracker, music by Tchaikovsky & choreography by Helgi Tomasson, at the Opera House from 13 to 30 December.

The Oakland Ballet presents Graham Lustig’s Nutcracker with live accompaniment from the Oakland Symphony & the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir at the Paramount Theater on 16 - 17 December.

BroadwaySF presents Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet, part of an international tour, at the Golden Gate Theater on 19 December.

The puppeteers of Oakland's Fairyland join with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra for Nutcracker Sweet, featuring highlights from the story, & you can see that 25 November at the Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco, 26 November at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, & 26 November at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto.

Art Means Painting

The Contemporary Jewish Museum has two shows opening this month, both on 7 December (running until 28 April 2024): First Light: Rituals of Glass and Neon Art "features artworks in neon, glass, and plasma, large-scale sculptures, and installations that invite you to learn about fascinating scientific processes, and inspire deeper contemplation of the role of light in our quest to understand our place in the universe" & Radiant Practices: Illuminating Jewish Traditions, a "collection of Jewish ritual objects, from menorahs to memorial candles, that offer insights into practices that draw on light to uplift Jewish holidays, lifecycle moments, and spiritual spaces."

BAM/PFA opens two MATRIX exhibits this month, both on 13 December: Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza explores the Argentinian's clay sculptures, & Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing, a video installation using "makeup and costuming derived from both drag performance and Cantonese and Peking opera."

Two new exhibits are opening on 21 December at the Asian Art Museum this month: Japanese Ink Paintings, in which "Highlights from the collection illustrate how Japanese artists from the 15th to the early 17th century engaged with Chinese ink painting styles" & Japanese Tastes in Chinese Ceramics, in which "Exquisite Chinese and Chinese-influenced ceramics from the Kyoto National Museum demonstrate the importance of Chinese art to Japanese tea culture." In connection with their current exhibits, particularly The Heart of Zen, the Museum will host Life in a Zen Temple: Lecture, Zazen, and Tea with Abbot Kobori Geppo on 9 DecemberZazen and Lecture on Life in a Zen Temple with Abbot Kobori Geppo on 10 December (Zazen is a method of meditation).

Cinematic

Special screenings at BAM/PFA this month include Snow and the Bear by director Selcen Ergun, Victims of Sin from Emilio Fernández (if you miss this one on 14 December at BAM/PFA, you can catch it at the Roxie in San Francisco on 16 December), & Werckmeister Harmonies from Béla Tarr; & an exciting new film series launches: Yasujiro Ozu: The Elegance of Simplicity, a "selected retrospective" starting on 3 December & running through 25 February 2024.

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival holds its annual Day of Silents on 2 December at the Castro Theater, with a terrific line-up (all accompanied by live music): a program of early cartoons, the Lubitsch / Pola Negri The Wildcat, Valentino in The Eagle, Anna May Wong in Pavement Butterfly, Harold Lloyd's iconic Safety Last!, & William Powell in Forgotten Faces (I feel I should issue a trigger warning about the Lloyd; if you have any sort of height anxiety, you're going to want to skip this one).

On 12 December the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco presents a restored version of the 1920 German film, The Golem: How He Came into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), with live accompaniment by guitarist Gary Lucas, playing his original score for the film.

On into the new year. . . .

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