8pm, Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Chelsea brings the American Mavericks project to San Francisco, with a concert celebrating seldom heard and new works by Black American composers. The pieces on the program (composed from 1974–2014) showcase a spectrum of styles, approaches and influences; from the moody and tumultuous Dream and Variations by trailblazer Dorothy Rudd Moore and the subtle jazz inflections of Guido’s Hand: Five Pieces for Piano by Pulitzer Prize-winner George Walker, to spiky works by contemporary composers Jonathan Bailey Holland and Joyce Solomon Moorman, Regina Harris Baiocchi’s heart-rending Azuretta written as a tribute to her mentor, the great Hale Smith, and the West Coast premiere of The Forest—an atmospheric reverie by emerging composer Chloe Clarke Smith, who is a Boston Conservatory composition student and Wildflower Composers alum.