MUSIC TO RECALL PAST DETENTIONS
The Old First Church in San Francisco provides an intimate but intense concert series with low-price tickets, and some real surprises—like world premieres. On July 1 the timely new work was a hard-to-define, 23-minute multi-media opus, with music, theater, dance, narration, and pre-recorded percussion tracks having considerable political-historical significance. “Gateway—Stories from Angel Island” is the most unorthodox performance piece I’ve run across in years, cutting across many disciplines and cultures. It recalls the isle in S.F. Bay serving for decades…