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COMING SOON: 15th Other Minds Festival of New Music
March 4-5-6, 2010,
7pm Panel Discussions / 8pm Concerts
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
 3200 California Street, San Francisco
BUY TICKETS NOW!
Order tickets from the SFJCC box office or call 415.292.1233. You can view the complete program here.

Other Minds 15 is presented by Other Minds in association with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco,  the Polish Cultural Institute, and ROVA:Arts.

The OM 15 Composers (Click on names to read bios):
Chou Wen-chung is unable to travel to San Francisco to join us in person for the Festival. He will participate in the OM 15 residency
via Skype, and his music will be performed on the March 4 concert as scheduled.




Music From Other Minds
on KALW-FM

Other 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.

Ruth Crawford Seeger
Henry Brant's new book
Textures and Timbres: An Orchestrator's Handbook
is available

Order it here.

Just released!

Sticky Melodies

With this 2-CD set much of Johanna Magdalena Beyer’s music can be heard for the first time.

" . . . a major event in terms of rectifying a terrible omission in American music . . . an important voice worthy of discovery."
—Robert Carl, Fanfare

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.

Testament

Our award winning video In Between the Notes - a Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath, Master Indian Musician is now available on DVD. Order it from our webstore.

Pandit Pran Nath

 

 

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

August 2009
September 2009
October 2009
November 2009
January 2010 (special ticket deals)

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Visit our newly revamped 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.

radiom.org

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

Special Sale on Other Minds
Umbrella & Tote Bag

Shipping on these items is now free!

Umbrella & Tote

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, 1997s

  Other Minds Records
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Marc Blitzstein
First Life
Other Minds Records 1017-2
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Order it here.
Press release here.

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

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

Our new CD release is out and you can hear excerpts here. Ring of Fire by the Del Sol String Quartet has music by Kui Dong, Chinary Ung, Jack Body, Gabriela Lena Frank, Hyo-shin Na, Zhou Long, John Adams, Peter Sculthorpe, and including an improvisation by the quartet. Buy it here. Read the recent review from Gramophone Magazine.

Ring of Fire CD

OM has recently released
a new CD
of the music of Kui Dong:

Hands Like Waves Unfold
Order here

Kui Dong

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.

Amelia Cuni

 



 

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