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OTHER
MINDS FESTIVAL 11
Charles Amirkhanian, Artistic Director
Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco
Titles of works are linked to streaming audio files available through RadiOM.org.
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Thursday,
February 24, 2005
7:00
pm: Theatre
Panel Discussion:
Phill Niblock, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Michael Nyman,
moderated by Charles Amirkhanian
8:00 pm: CONCERT
Phill Niblock:
Sethwork
(2003)
West Coast Premiere
Seth Josel, guitars with e-bow
Daniel Bernard Roumain:
String Quartet No. 4, Angelou (2005)
World Premiere
Daniel Bernard Roumain, electric violin; DJ Scientific;
Del Sol String Quartet (Kate Stenberg, 1st violin; Rick Shinozaki, 2nd violin;
Charlton Lee, viola; Monica Scott, cello)
Commissioned by Other Minds and sponsored in part through a grant from the Cultural Equities Grants Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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Michael Nyman :
Manhatta (film by Paul Strand, 1920)
Solo piano selections from his score for the film The Piano
String Quartet No. 3 (1989)
Nyman, piano; Del Sol String Quartet; Cheryl Keller, soprano
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Friday,
February 25, 2005
7:00 pm: Theatre
Panel Discussion: Maria de Alvear, Fred Frith, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian
8:00 pm CONCERT
Charles Amirkhanian:
Son of Metropolis San Francisco (1986;1997)
Hörspiel (tape)
Fred Frith: New works (world premieres, 2005)
Frith, guitar; Sudhu Tewari, homemade instruments |
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Intermission
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Maria de Alvear:
Gran Sol (2005, world premiere)
Alvear, vocals; Amelia Cuni, vocals; Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
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Saturday,
February 26, 2005
11:00 am: Forum
Film: Cradle Will Rock
(Tim Robbins, 1999)
Starring Hank Azaria, John Cusack,
Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan
Sarandon, and John Turturro
2:00 pm: Forum
Piano Percussion Music (1929)
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Sarah Cahill, piano
Songs on texts of Walt Whitman and e.e. cummings, and
from
The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, and Regina.
Amy X Neuburg, vocals; John Duykers, vocals; Eric A. Gordon, vocals; Sarah Cahill, pianoFilm: Hände (Hands, Albrecht Viktor Blum, 1927)
Discussion: Eric A. Gordon, biographer (Mark the Music, St. Martin’s Press, 1989)
7:00 pm: Theatre
Panel Discussion: John Luther Adams, Evan Ziporyn, Billy Bang, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian
8:00 pm: CONCERT
John Luther Adams:
Strange and Sacred Noise (1997)
...dust into dust... (snare drums)
clusters on a quadrilateral grid (2) (vibraphones)
solitary and time-breaking waves (tam-tams)
clusters on a quadrilateral grid (3) (crotales and/or orchestra bells)
velocities crossing in phase space (bass drums and tom-toms)
So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, Lawson White)
Evan Ziporyn:
Melody Competition (2000)
So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, Lawson White, with Dan Kennedy and Robert Esler) |
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Billy Bang Quintet:
Suite from Vietnam: The Aftermath (2005)
Yo, Ho Chi Minh is in the House
Doi Moi
Moments for KIAMIA
Reconciliation 1
(Billy Bang, violin; Ted Daniel, trumpet and horns; Andrew Bemkey, piano; Todd Nicholson, bass; Michael Carvin, drums)
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