November 9 and 10, 2007!! World Premiere of 8 works created by Common Sense Composers' Collective in collaboration with the Robin Cox Ensemble The Contemporary Arts Forum Chapala and De la Guerra St., Santa Barbara, California, $18 GenAdm/$13 CAF and Iridian Arts Members. The Ensemble will be performing the World Premieres of eight works (including two with video) written for the group by the Common Sense Composers Collective. The composers will attend an open rehearsal attend post-concert receptions, and participate in a round table discussion of compositional issues. They will also give lectures and hold individual lessons with composition students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. On November 10, Belinda Reynolds will conduct an afternoon session with high school students on the subject of creating new music. www.robincoxensemble.com www.myspace.com/robincoxensemble www.commonsense.org www.myspace.com/commonsensecomposerscollective TIC Released, February 2007 !! Special online savings here! "...reclaiming [new music] for future generations." - Frank Oteri Now you can make a tax-deductible contribution to Common Sense ONLINE !	About Common Sense "What we can use more of is Common Sense's infectious, eager energy and expert writing." -- Kyle Gann, Village Voice The Common Sense Composers Collective is a SF/NYC based collective of eight composers. Although well ‘pedigreed’, completing music programs at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell, we emerged from our schooling dissatisfied and restless. The impetus for the group’s creation can best be described by the slogan, coined by a West Coast radio station: “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” This catch-phrase, along with the name Common Sense, helps to define the spirit of our group. Now in the midst of our eleventh year, the group continues to explore alternative ways of conceiving, developing, and presenting new musical works. Each year the eight composers of Common Sense seek out and collaborate with a different performing group. Our initial project was the creation of, and collaboration with, an eleven-member ensemble. In December 1993 the 19 musicians began meeting periodically for workshop sessions. In June 1994 we presented the world premieres of eight new compositions. A Compact Disc of the resulting pieces was released in January 1997 by CRI on their acclaimed Emergency Music series. We have since gone on to complete eight such collaborations, with the following diverse ensembles: San Francisco’s Alternate Currents Performing Ensemble, the acclaimed Bay Area period instrument ensemble American Baroque, the innovative NYC duo Twisted Tutu, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, Albany Symphony’s chamber orchestra, Dogs of Desire, and the New Millennium Ensemble. Our most recent project for 2002/03 was a collaboration with NYC’s Essential Music. Our second CD, a recording of the works written for American Baroque was released in June 2002 on the Santa Fe New Music label. It received a Chamber Music America/WQXR 2003 Record Award. Our third CD, with music performed by the New Millennium Ensemble, will be released in 2006. In addition to our creative projects, for five years we extended our philosophy of collaboration and bridge building to the creation OPUS415, a day-long Bay Area New Music Marathon. Presented in San Francisco, this event showcased the diverse voices of Bay Area composers and performers along with a small selection of special visiting guests. Through five such Marathons, we presented over 130 composers and hundreds more performers from the Bay Area and beyond. The members of the Common Sense Composers’ Collective are convinced that both the high quality and success of our projects are due in great part to the experience of group work and collaboration. We experimented with, and daresay improved upon, the process in which most new concert works are midwifed. Indeed, the joyous and celebratory atmosphere that has accompanied each project is the inevitable result of this working process. Site Map You will need "RealPlayer" to hear the audio excerpts on this site. It's free and an easy install. randall WOOLF belinda REYNOLDS ed HARSH melissa HUI carolyn YARNELL marc MELLITS john HALLE dan BECKER Copyright 2002-2007 Common Sense | 4348 26th St. | SF CA | 94131 | 415 285 8680 Contact Us c/o Dan Becker, Director Credits BACK TO SPLASH PAGE   Common Sense Composers This page has been accessed times since January 2000.