On Monday evening March 14, 2022, the award-winning Venezuelan American soprano Maria Brea joins forces with pianist Max Lifchitz for an intimate recital featuring music from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the US. Included will be music by Miguel Astor, Harry Bulow, Hector Campos-Parsi, Antonio Estevez, Max Lifchitz, Sheli Nan, William Ortiz, Joseph Rivers and Joel Eric Suben.
Joshua Kosman April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 7:26 pm
Wayne Peterson’s compositions showed a range of musical influences. Photo: Courtesy Grant Peterson
For more than 30 years, composer and pianist Wayne Peterson taught music students at San Francisco State University. He was a fixture on the local new-music scene, reliably present at any concert where contemporary works were being performed. He composed prolifically, in an eclectic, often accessible style.
Then he got an awkward call from the Pulitzer Prize committee, and things were never the same again.
Peterson, who died on April 7 at his San Francisco home, won the Pulitzer for music amid a controversy over the rules and procedures of the prize an honor that often threatened to overshadow the rest of his creative achievement.