7/3/2001
Other minds VII
Cowell Theater, San Francisco
Presented by Other Minds, in association with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The annual new music festival OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL VII is a gathering of composers and performers in contemporary music which offers "an opportunity to hear works by musical innovators who are shaping the sounds of the 21st century.
Presented by Other Minds, in association with the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program, The annual new music festival OTHER
MINDS FESTIVAL VII is a gathering of composers and performers in
contemporary music which offers "an opportunity to hear works by
musical innovators who are shaping the sounds of the 21st
century.
This year, the festival, presents five world premieres, several of
which will be performed by their composers. Public programs
include artist forums and three evenings of concerts.
The eight composers invited to the 2001 Festival are:
CHRIS BROWN (Oakland)
GAVIN BRYARS (Great Britain)
ALVIN CURRAN (Oakland/Rome)
ANDREW HILL (New York)
HI KYUNG KIM (Santa Cruz, born Korea)
JAMES TENNEY (Los Angeles)
GLEN VELEZ (New York)
ALEKSANDRA VREBALOV (Ann Arbor, born Yugoslavia)
In addition to works by living composers, this year's festival
also looks back at musical individualists of the past
century with an opening night concert tribute to
the late Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness
(1911-2000), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. Other
festival highlights include a program of musical works by poet
Ezra Pound, who transcribed into music the rhythmic patterns
and cadences of poetry; and a work by George Antheil, self-styled
"bad boy of American music," whose Centennial celebration,
presented in association with Other Minds, was a high point of the
San Francisco Symphony's AMERICAN MAVERICKS series last summer.
Free artist forums feature pre-concert talks by the composers on
Thursday and Friday evenings, and a Saturday morning panel
discussion on the music of Ezra Pound.
The Opening Night concert is preceded at 7:00 PM by a free
panel discussion on the Cowell Theater stage with Eve Egoyan,
Aleksandra Vrebalov, Gavin Bryars, Glen Velez and Chris Brown.
Dedicated to new and unusual music in all its forms, Other Minds
was founded in San Francisco by Executive Director Charles
Amirkhanian and Board President Jim Newman in 1992. The first
Other Minds Festival was presented in 1993. Other Minds Festivals
are known for their international scope, incorporation of new
technologies, multidisciplinary collaborations, and tradition of
encouraging relatively unknown but gifted young composers.
Presented in association with the Djerassi Resident Artists
Program, the festival concerts are preceded by four days of
private sessions at the Djerassi Program in Woodside, giving the
composers a rare chance to discuss critical questions in depth and
to get to know one another on a more personal basis.
Tickets are available through the Cowell Theater Box Office
tel: 415-441-3687 and online at http://www.ticketweb.com
Cowell Theater, San Francisco, CA