New Music Séance 2005
Webster’s Dictionary defines séance as “a meeting of people to receive spiritualistic messages,” and the Other Minds New Music Séance was envisioned to do just that, in the intimate candlelit surroundings of Bernard Maybeck’s 1895 Arts and Crafts-style Swedenborgian Church. The New Music Séances featured hypnotic, spiritual, and rarely-heard musical gems spanning the past 100 years, as noted pianist Sarah Cahill and the violin-piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria
Zimmermann channeled new music’s progenitors alongside composers working today.
Program 1: Walk in Beauty
Dane Rudhyar
Third Pentagram, excerpts: Stars; Sunburst (1926)
Leo Ornstein
Three Fantasy Pieces (1962, world premiere)
Henry Cowell
Aeolian Harp (1923)
The Banshee (1925)
Tides of Maunaunaun (1912)
Bunita Marcus
Julia (after John Lennon, 1989, West Coast premiere)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Charles Ives
Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1907-10)
Kate Stenberg, violin
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Daniel David Feinsmith
Amalek (2005, world premiere)
Yamaha Disklavier
Peter Garland
Walk in Beauty (1989)
Janice Giteck
Tara’s Love Will Melt the Sword (2002)
Erik Satie
Gnossienne No. 5 (July 8, 1889)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Program II: Nude Rolling Down an Escalator
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Prelude No. 4; Prelude No. 9 (1924-28)
Andrea Morricone
I Studio (Etude No. 1, 2002, U.S. premiere)
Kyle Gann
Private Dances, excerpt: Saintly (2004)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Henning Christiansen
Den Arkadiske (1966, U.S. premiere)
Kate Stenberg, violin
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Terry Riley
The Heaven Ladder, Book 7, excerpt: Simone’s Lullaby (1993)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Kyle Gann
Nude Rolling Down an Escalator (1997-99)
Yamaha Disklavier
For Cornelius (1982; 1990)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Concert III: Toward the Flame
Alexander Scriabin
Vers la Flamme (1914)
Johanna Magdalena Beyer
Dissonant Counterpoint Nos. 5, 7, 8 (ca. 1934)
Lou Harrison
A Summerfield Set (1988)
Daniel David Feinsmith
Self (2004-05)
Sarah Cahill, piano
Ronald Bruce Smith
Trois regards (1988-89)
Kate Stenberg, violin
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Mamoru Fujieda
Patterns of Plants (1996-2000)
Pattern A, Seventh Collection
Pattern D, Thirteenth Collection
Sarah Cahill, piano
Gary Noland
Grande Rag Brillante, Op. 15 (1978-79, revised 1989)
Yamaha Disklavier
John Cage
In a Landscape (1948)
Henry Cowell
The Trumpet of Angus Og (1924)
John Adams
China Gates (1977)
William Bolcom
Graceful Ghost (Rag, 1970)
Sarah Cahill, piano
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