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1. radiOM.org - ChamberBridge Messiaen Illuminated - Concert III (Nov. 15, 2008, 8 PM) [5.043% Popularity: 0.00000]

ChamberBridge: Messiaen Illuminated - Concert III (Nov. 15, 2008, 8 PM) Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 66 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: ChamberBridge This is the third of three concerts given on November 15, 2008 performed by chamber duo ChamberBridge (Lara Bruckmann, soprano and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano), and also featuring the Del Sol String Quartet, Mary Chun, and members of the SFSoundGroup. The performances highlight the works of Olivier Messiaen, along with works by his teachers and influences, such as Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel and Claude Debussy, through to the 2nd and 3rd generations of his students, including Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Ed Campion, Ron Bruce Smith and George Benjamin. Of special note are rare performances of song cycles by Messiaen’s first wife Claire Delbos (both composed on texts by Messiaen’s mother, the accomplished poet Cecile Sauvage), and the premieres of two newly commissioned works by young Bay Area composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Mei-Fang Lin...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 11, Concert 1: 02 “String Quartet No. 4, ‘Angelou’” by Daniel Bernard Roumain [5.085% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 1: 02 “String Quartet No. 4, ‘Angelou’” by Daniel Bernard Roumain Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 26 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain presents the world premiere of his “String Quartet No. 4, ‘Angelou’" featuring the composer on electric violin with Bay Area string quartet Del Sol, and DJ Scientific sampling poetry by Maya Angelou. Based in New York and known to some as the "dread violinist" this young African American composer is as home with Bach as he is with be-bop improvisation, and cuts a unique figure in the cross-over classical world. He has composed for various American orchestras and arranged for Cassandra Wilson's big band, and his Lincoln Center workshops challenge young composers to write classical music with hip-hop beats. Musical Selections: String Quartet No. 4, “Angelou” (2005) (25:57) / Daniel Bernard Roumain Performers: Daniel Bernard Roumain, electric violin DJ Scientific, turnta...

3. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 11, Concert 1: 05 “String Quartet No. 3” by Michael Nyman [5.093% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 1: 05 “String Quartet No. 3” by Michael Nyman Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 18 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Michael Nyman's intensely moving “String Quartet No. 3”, composed in Armenia and redolent of the sadness of the music of that oppressed people, is performed by the Del Sol String Quartet. Nyman first came to prominence as a minimalist composer in the 1970s. He has also composed the music for several films by Peter Greenaway. This was his first appearance in San Francisco since 1994. Musical Selections: String Quartet No. 3 (1989) (17:51) / Michael Nyman Performers: Del Sol String Quartet: Kate Stenberg, violin Rick Shinozaki, violin Charlton Lee, viola Monica Scott, cello Genres: Chamber Music ; 20th Century Classical Subject: 20th century classical ; Chamber music ; String quartets People: Nyman, Michael ; Stenberg, Kate, violinist ; Shinozaki, Rick ; Lee, Charlton ; Scott, Monica Recording Da...

4. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 11, Concert 1: 06 "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi" by Michael Nyman [5.088% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 1: 06 "The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi" by Michael Nyman Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 19 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Soprano Cheryl Keller and the Del Sol String Quartet present the American concert premiere of Michael Nyman’s “The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi” for soprano and string quartet, with a text by visual artist Mary Kelly, whose installation of a room-sized lint sculpture was the inspiration for the composition. Nyman first came to prominence as a minimalist composer in the 1970s. He has also composed the music for several films by Peter Greenaway. This was his first appearance in San Francisco since 1994. Musical Selections: The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi [text by Mary Kelly] (2001) (18:33) / Michael Nyman Performers: Cheryl Keller, soprano Del Sol String Quartet: Kate Stenberg, violin Rick Shinozaki, violin Charlton Lee, viola Monica Scott, cello Genres: Art Songs ; 20th Century Classical ...

5. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [5.040% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 126 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The 12th Other Minds Festival kicked off with a panel discussion, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian and featuring composers Per Nørgård, Peter Sculthorpe, and Daniel David Feinsmith, (Maja Ratkje was sick with the flu and missed this pre-concert discussion). Nørgård talks about the origin of the name of his “Quartet No. 10, for strings, ‘Høsttidløs’ (Harvest-Timeless)”, which is named after a Danish flower that blooms in late autumn. Peter Sculthorpe describes how his piece “From Saibai”, was inspired by traditional music from an island just south of Papua New Guinea. While Daniel David Feinsmith comments on his interest in performing religious music and his new piece “Elohim”, which takes its title from one of the names of God found in the Torah. Also discussed are the benefits each composers foun...

6. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 [5.131% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 12: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 125 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the composers featured in the third concert of OM 12. Markus Stockhausen and Tara Bouman describe the various techniques they use in their performance of compositions, improvisations and intuitive music. Ronald Bruce Smith talks about his “String Quartet No. 2 ‘Nostalgia’” and Peter Sculthorpe along with didjeridu player Stephen Kent discuss the process involved in writing a part for the didjeridu when the two people involved live on different continents. The Vancouver Sun described Ronal Bruce Smith as a composer who is “filling in silence’s blank canvas with the delicacy of an impressionist’s brush.” In his “String Quartet No. 2, ‘Nostalgia’”, a work in four movements, Smith makes reference to another musical impressionist, Maurice Ravel, bor...

7. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 [5.000% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 1 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 140 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the composers featured in the first concert of OM 13. Michael Bach discusses the inspiration for Dieter Schnebel’s “Mit Diesen Händen” as well as describing his unique curved BACH.bow that he uses to perform it. Åke Parmerud then reflects on the nature of science and the concept that all of creation can be considered as a single organic machine, and how he has used it as the philosophical basis for his tape piece “La Vie Mécanique”. Elena Kats-Chernin describes her works for piano, which despite their deceptively simple structure, are in fact incredibly difficult to play. And a somewhat taciturn Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith offers a brief introduction to his compositional technique, while also declaring his personal predilection to not talk about h...

8. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 [5.048% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 13: Panel Discussion & Concert 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 161 min Event Type: Lecture / Panel Discussion Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) Charles Amirkhanian moderates a panel discussion with the composers featured in the third concert of OM 13. Keeril Makan talks about the strategies he has employed to obtain a variety of timbres from a particular percussion instrument, such as placing cymbals upside down. He also discusses his noise piece “Static Rising”, and his affinity for the Finnish music scene. Dan Becker describes his work with the Disklavier and his composition “Revolution” which is scored for prepared Disklavier and a live pianist playing simultaneously on a single keyboard, accompanied by additional snippets from a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Elena Kats-Chernin then talks about how she changes many of her pieces to create different versions that have slightly different tempos, instrumentation, key, etc... She also r...

9. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 14: Concert 1 [5.008% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 14: Concert 1 View Item Type: Video Duration: 124 mins Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The first concert of OM 14 was held on March 5, 2009, and included: Spiral X: In Memoriam Genocide is not an easy theme to acknowledge in music, and yet for Chinary Ung, it finally became a necessity. in 2007 he decided to compose a tenth work in his “Spiral” series that would commemorate the Cambodian holocaust perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. Among the 1.7 million killed were half of his family members. The players intone nonsensical phonemes and sing in raw village style, very explicitly scored. Ung is not interested in trained classical voices and urges his players not to try to imitate them. In addition, various members are asked to sing and whistle, often while playing completely different material at the same time. “Spiral X” was co-commissioned by the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization and the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. -Charles...

10. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 14: Concert 2 [5.031% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 14: Concert 2 View Item Type: Video Duration: 121 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Additional Media Files (click to view) The second concert of OM 14 was held on March 6, 2009, and it included: Hannah Hannah, or to be precise Ophiphagus Hannah, is a royal variety of the cobra. This composition presents several images of her: from sounds that replicate hissing and biting, and further analogies, to slithery rippling and connotations of submissiveness, to sounds of singing instruments. The cobra is the main character, creating her own images, as if surrounded by fun house mirrors, which deform and at times obscure the limits of reality. -Dobromiła Jaskot, trans. Anna Perzanowska Dilations For three tenors, three bass clarinetists, and three ‘cellists, the piece is a trio split in three. At moments, the three like instruments enmesh into one sounding body, and in other moments an instrument shares qualities of another. The clarinet timbre, for instance, changes by the syl...