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| Natasha Barrett |
Lisa Bielawa |
Chou Wen-chung |
Jürg Frey |
Tom Johnson |
Kidd Jordan |
Carla Kihlstedt |
Paweł Mykietyn |
Gyan Riley |
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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
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." 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.
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.
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Our last few editions of MINDALERT can be accessed through these links: August 2009 You can find us on Facebook 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.
Special Sale on Other Minds 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
Links to Henry Brant on radIOM.org: Henry Brant at KPFA, 1971 |
Other Minds Records![]() 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. ![]() 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. OM has recently released Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni
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