Other Minds Festival 8

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Complete Program Listing below

Regular per ticket prices:

$26 Premium seating

$18 General seating

$15 Student/Senior

3-day Festival Pass:

$70 Premium

$45 General

$40 for Students and Seniors

A special Benefactors’ Ticket guaranteeing best available seating for a selected concert and an invitation to the
Other Minds Festival Composer Reception is available for $100.

Group Rates: A 20% discount is offered for groups of ten or more persons.

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To purchase tickets, call City Box Office at (415) 392-4400; or fax ticket requests to (415) 986-0411. Online ticket purchase is available at http://www.tickets.com/search.cgi?by=event&Query=other+minds.

Ticket orders with a check or credit card number enclosed may be sent via mail to City Box Office, 180 Redwood Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94102. (A $1.50 per ticket service charge is added for mail and fax orders; service charges may differ for telephone orders.)

Concert tickets will also be available for walk-up sales at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Box Office beginning at 6pm
each evening of concerts.

The Other Minds concert hotline is 415/ 646-0760.

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Complete Program Listings

Thursday, 7 March 2002 — Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street & Bay Street, San Francisco, California 94123

7:00pm Artist Forum — A free artist forum on the theater stage with composers Ellen Fullman, Takashi Harada, Tania León, Pauline Oliveros, Ricardo Tacuchian and Randy Weston, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian.

8:00pm Concert — Takashi Harada • Lou Harrison • Ricardo Tacuchian • Pauline Oliveros

• Takashi Harada, composer and virtuoso performer on the Ondes Martenot, performs his own compositions and works by André Jolivet, Shin-ichiro Ikebe, and Darius Milhaud, with Hiroko Sakurazawa on piano.

• Lou Harrison compositions for solo guitar, including "Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth" (1952) and the world premiere of "Scenes from Nek Chand" (2001-02), a new work for National steel guitar, performed by David Tanenbaum.

• Ricardo Tacuchian’s "Páprica" for solo guitar (1999) performed by David Tanenbaum, Michael Kudirka and Eric Benzant-Feldra perform "Impulsos No. 2" for two guitars (1980). "Imagem Carioca" for four guitars (1987) features The Mexican Guitar Quartet (Tomás Barreiro, Santiago Gutierrez Bolio, Santiago Lascurain, and Rodrigo Placencia).

• Pauline Oliveros and The Circle Trio in a world premiere performance by Oliveros on accordion, violinist India Cooke,
and vocalist Karolyn van Putten.

Friday, 8 March 2002 — Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

7:00pm Artist Forum — A free artist forum on the theater stage with Thomas Buckner, Lou Harrison, Annea Lockwood,
and Richard Teitelbaum, in discussion with Charles Amirkhanian.

8:00pm Concert — Lou Harrison • Annea Lockwood and Thomas Buckner • Richard Teitelbaum • Takashi Harada

• Other Minds salutes Lou Harrison, as keyboard soloist Linda Burman-Hall performs "Sonata for Harpsichord" (1999) and "Incidental Music to Corneille’s Cinna for tack piano" (1955-6), followed by "Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano" (1991)
with the Harmida Piano Trio.

• Annea Lockwood and Thomas Buckner perform their collaborative composition "Duende" (1997),
with Lockwood on computer and vocals by baritone Buckner.

• Richard Teitelbaum’s "Blends" (1977) for shakuhachi and Kurzweil synthesizer
with Teitelbaum on keyboard and shakuhachi soloist Masayuki Koga.

• Takashi Harada makes a second festival appearance on the Ondes Martenot,
performing his "Voyage en septembre"and Toru Takemitsu’s "Distance de Fée" with pianist Hiroko Sakurazawa.

• Pauline Oliveros' "Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford" (2001) features Sarah Cahill, piano.

Saturday, 9 March 2002 — Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

2:00pm "The Art of the Ondes Martenot" Demonstration/Discussion/Performance

7:00pm Concert —

Ellen Fullman and Kronos Quartet • Annea Lockwood • Ricardo Tacuchian • Tania León • Randy Weston

• Ellen Fullman’s 90-foot Long String Instrument engulfs the audience with visceral vibrations as the Kronos Quartet joins her in the world premiere of "Stratified Bands: Last Kind Words" (2001).

• Annea Lockwood’s "Immersion" (1998) for percussion duo, using marimba, quartz gong and two tam-tams,
performed by the Other Minds Ensemble.

• Ricardo Tacuchian’s "Estruturas Gêmeas (Twin Structures) for Piano Four-Hands" (1978) performed by Cheryl Seltzer and
Joel Sachs of Continuum.

• Tania León’s "Arenas d'un tiempo" (Sands of Time, 1992) for clarinet, cello, and piano performed by Continuum with David Gresham, clarinet; Kristina Reiko Cooper, cello; Tom Kolor, marimba; Cheryl Seltzer, piano; Joel Sachs, piano and conductor. Continuum performs "Canto" (2000) with baritone Thomas Buckner, for whom the work was written.

• Randy Weston will perform a newly-commissioned work for OM 8, "Blues for Langston Hughes," along with other works; Weston on piano with his African Rhythms Quintet featuring T.K. Blue, saxophone and flute; Benny Powell, trombone; Alex Blake, bass; and Neil Clark, African percussion.

Lobby, Box Office and OMCafé open at 6 pm each evening

For further information call 415/ 646-0760, or visit http://www.otherminds.org