THE MODERNS ARE COMING!!!
The indestructible Contemporary Music Players have a new lease on life with a new director, a play-in at a much improved hall, and sizable programs requiring close to two dozen musicians. Long the most venerable and biggest of the area’s modern-music specialists, the 47-year-old SFCMP unreeled a terrific season-opening concert Oct. 20 at the Taube Theater, with the main thrust being on Elliott Carter’s inventiveness. Among the marvels of the SFCMP miracle is a focused mature audience denying the old…