Other Minds

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featuring these composers:
Harold Budd USA
Gloria Coates USA/Germany
John Kennedy USA
Ikue Mori JAPAN/USA
Tyshawn Sorey USA
Simon Steen-Andersen DENMARK
Øyvind Torvund NORWAY
Ken Ueno USA
Lotta Wennäkoski FINLAND

Visit our radiOM.org site to hear 100s of hours of music & interviews with Maverick composers. Listen to Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Conlon Nancarrow, Aaron Copland, Edgar Varese and many others.

0ther Minds is on KALW with a series - "Music from Other Minds" - curated and hosted by Richard Friedman every Friday night (Pacific time) at 11pm. You can listen live in the San Francisco Bay Area at 91.7 FM or hear the stream from their website. Playlist and more information is available at the Music from Other Minds website.

A first edition of Ezra Pound’s first opera Le Testament, a double volume with the editor’s reconstruction of the 1926 Paris Salle Pleyel concert & the 1933 complete score, Pound’s own final version, has been added to the series The Music of Ezra Pound.

Along with the other books in the series, edited by Margaret Fisher & Robert Hughes, it can be ordered from our Webstore here.

Now available from our
webstore: Peter Esmonde's film
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
on DVD — order it now

Our last few editions of MINDALERT can be accessed through these links:

June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
September 2011
October 2011
November 2011
December 2011
January 2012

Dane Rudhyar
His Music, Thought and Life
Special price $59
(Discounted from $80)
Buy it here.

American composer Henry Brant died Saturday, April 26,2008, at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 94. There are links here to Henry Brant and his music.

Brant's Pulitzer Prize winning Ice Field, commissioned by Other Minds and premiered at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, December 2001.

A video of Henry Brant with SF Symphony's Michael Tilson Thomas can be viewed here.

Henry Brant In Memoriam
(composer David A. Jaffe)

Brant at organ
Henry Brant at the organ,
Davies Symphony Hall, December 2001.

Links to Henry Brant on radIOM.org:

Henry Brant at KPFA, 1971
Henry Brant on "Speaking of Music." 1984
"Meteor Farm" by Henry Brant, 1982
"Homeless People" by Henry Brant,
Other Minds 4, 1997

OTHER MINDS RECORDS

Conlon Nancarrow's
Studies for Player Piano,
the original 1750 Arch Recordings,
a four CD set. Get it today.

Writings on Nacarrow from
Soundings Press are now
available online. Click here.

Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni
recorded John Cage's 18 Microtonal Ragas for the Other Minds label. You can order the CD of this extraordinary work here.

Here are previously unreleased items that lend new insight into George Antheil, one of America's most engrossing mavericks. A 60-page booklet by Charles Amirkhanian, illustrated with previously unpublished photos, accompanies this two CD set.

Marc Blitzstein
First Life

Order it here.
Press release here.

Songs of Ned Rorem
Other Minds Records 1009-2

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Upcoming Events
Spoleto Festival Tour May 3-June 3, 2012 View of Broadway, Charleston, SC Join us on this music festival tour. Read about it here.	Other Minds 17 (2012) March 1-2-3, 2012 (Pictured: Harold Budd, one of the composers to be featured at OM 17 in 2012) View program details Get your tickets now Festival pass (all three concerts).	Other Minds Fellowship 2012 Other Minds Fellowship 2012 Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at The LAB, 2948 16th Street San Francisco, 7:30 pm Tickets here. (Pictured: 2011 Fellows)