Congratulations to composer and #ACF board member Vivian Fung! #repost from @sfcontemporarymusicplayers: ・・・ This December, our seasonal 'In the Community' event features the work of Canadian composer and Bay Area resident Vivian Fung, with a strongly topical and urgent meditation about the beauty and importance of our natural resources. Premiered in the summer of 2018 at the Banff Centre in Alberta–itself situated in the midst of snow-capped mountain peaks and nearby retreating glacial flows in the Canadian Rockies–Fung's 'The Ice is Talking' for solo percussion utilizes taps and swishes on three blocks of ice “to illustrate the beauty and fragility of our environment.” Augmented by electronic means, which might suggest in sideways fashion mankind’s impact on the forces of nature, the piece weaves its thesis through the very act of performing on a medium that is ever so slowly melting away over the course of the performance itself. We then open the door for group interaction and comm...