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New Music Seance:
2008: Concert No. 1, Birds in Warped Time (video) |
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| Item Type: Video |
Duration: 90 min |
| Event Type: Music |
Program Origin: Other Minds |
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Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008. The first concert, entitled “Birds in Warped Time”, featured music by the pioneering American composers Percy Grainger and Steed Cowart; a host of women composers including Grażyna Bacewicz, Meredith Monk, and Lois V. Vierk; two Asian composers, Somei Satoh and Tan Dun; European masters of the avant-garde such as Per Nørgård, Luciano Berio, and Oliver Messiaen; and Dylan Mattingly a promising talent who has yet to reach his 20th birthday. For a complete description of all the pieces heard please check out the Program Guide which can be found at http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Seance3program2.shtml |
| Musical Selections: |
Shepherd’s Hey, for piano (1908) (2:22) / Percy Grainger -- Irish Tune from County Derry, for piano (1902) (2:53) / Percy Grainger --Stained Glass Window, for piano and violin (1932) (2:43) / Grażyna Bacewicz -- Melodia, for piano and violin (1946) (2:43) / Grażyna Bacewicz -- St. Petersburg Waltz, for piano (1993) (6:36) / Meredith Monk -- Birds in Warped Time II, for piano and violin (1980) (10:17) / Somei Satoh -- Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1: No. 1 Missing Moon ; No. 2 Staccato Beans ; No. 3 Herdboy’s Song ; No. 7 Floating Clouds ; No. 8 Sunrain, for piano (1978-79) (8:38) / Tan Dun -- Animals in Concert: No. 1 Esperanza, A Hermit Crab Tango ; No. 2 Tortoise Tango: Without Jealousy, for piano (1988) (6:37) / Per Nørgård -- Night No. 3, for piano (2008) (7:00) / Dylan Mattingly -- Wasserklavier, for piano (1964) (1:42) / Luciano Berio -- To Stare Astonished at the Sea, for amplified piano strings (1994) (5:58) / Lois V. Vierk -- Blackberry Winter, for piano (2007) (6:58) / Steed Cowart -- Fantaisie, for violin and piano (1933) (7:23) / Olivier Messiaen |
| Performers: |
Sarah Cahill, piano (Shepard ; Irish ; Birds ; Night ; Wasserklavier ; Stare ; Blackberry)
Kate Stenberg, violin (Stained ; Melodia ; Birds ; Fantaisie)
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano (Stained ; Melodia ; Eight ; Animals ; Fantaisie) |
| Genres: |
20th Century Classical; New Music |
| Subject: |
20th century classical; New music; Avant-garde (Music) ; Piano music; Folk dance music, English; Violin and piano music; Waltzes; Suites (Piano) |
| People: |
Amirkhanian, Charles; Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961; Bacewicz, Grażyna ; Monk, Meredith; Satoh, Somei, 1947-; Tan, Dun, 1957- ; Nørgård, Per, 1932-; Mattingly, Dylan; Berio, Luciano, 1925-2003; Vierk, Lois V.; Cowart, Steed ; Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992; Cahill, Sarah; Stenberg, Kate, violinist ; Zimmermann, Eva-Maria, pianist |
| Recording Date: |
12/6/2008 |
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