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OM Festival 28 brought together composers from around the world for four nights of music, opening with two world premiere performances of Trimpin’s The Cello Quartet. Meanwhile, our series The Nature of Music has presented artists from a variety of disciplines whose work combines environmentalism and the arts and our Latitudes series featured a performance by New York’s Ghost Ensemble. Our Special Events included a concert of the complete piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya performed by Conor Hanick and the Bay Area premiere of pianist Adam Tendler’s Inheritances.
Conor Hanick joined us for a performance of the complete piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006) at The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. The performance was preceded by a talk on Ustvolskaya’s music by musicologist and 20th Century Russian and Soviet music specialist Simon Morrison.
A bevy of composers convened for the 28th Other Minds Festival at San Francisco’s Brava Theater. The highlight was the world premiere performance of The Cello Quartet by the visionary Seattle-based media artist Trimpin, featuring three autonomous cellos, human cellist Lori Goldston, and a trio of circus artists, choreographed by Margaret Fisher.
After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance, a wad of cash received in a parking lot, to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of composers to create new piano works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself.
OM Records continues to release new and exciting works on a regular basis. We’ve made our entire catalog available on Bandcamp as well as on our webstore, so be sure to check back frequently to see what we’re up to. Recent releases include CDs by Samuel Adams, Anthony Braxton and James Fei, and Karen Power, an LP by Thollem, Terry Riley, and Nels Cline, and a special DVD release by Carol Law and Charles Amirkhanian.
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Music from Other Minds is a weekly two-hour radio program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced and presented by Other Minds staff members and associates Liam Herb, Joseph Bohigian, Ed Herrmann, and Charles Amirkhanian. Air time is 8pm Sunday evenings on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.
