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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
WEST GOES EAST – CalArts at the Kitchen
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the Kitchen present West Goes East—CalArts at the Kitchen Wednesday, January 26 to Saturday, January 29. The festival features an array of multimedia performances highlighting the diversity of CalArts alumni in the New York Area.
West Goes East spotlights 23 Artists, 100 performers, and 10 world premiers. Special guests include jazz recording artist Ravi Coltrane, electronic music pioneer Mort Subotnick, US Department of Art and Technology Secretary Randall Packer, Cal Arts President Steven Lavine, Andy Warhol Foundation President Joel Wachs, WNYC radio host David Garland, and film composer David Shire.
Wednesday
Host: Steven Lavine
Kathy Rose (video performance artist)
Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Marina Rosenfeld – New Works for Turntablist
Earl Howard (saxophone, synthesizer) and Denman Maroney (hyperpiano)
CalArts Allstar Jazz Ensemble featuring Ralph Alessi and Ravi Coltrane
Thursday
Host: Joel Wachs
Lois V Vierk – “Simoom” for Eight Cellos
Christopher Magee (experimental animation) – “The Birdcage King “
Jessica Gaynor Dance Company – “Rhythm Studies”
Kate Weare and Karl Anderson (dance) – “Intercourse”
Brian Howrey (theatre artist) – “Deviates from the Master Plan”
Shem Guibbory – “The Evolution of a 21st Century Violinist”
Friday
Host: Morton Subotnick
Dan Joseph Ensemble (music)
Robin Martin and Charles Putris (cartoon projections) text by Charles Bukowski
Marcos Rosales - Dance/Video/Music
NewBand – (music) Compositions by Dean Drummond and Anne LeBaron
Troika Ranch Digital Dance Theater – “16 (R)evolutions “
Meredith Alex – “Metamorphosis in Vogue: a Gallery of Human Sculpture “
Saturday
Host: Randall Packer
Pre-concert Discussion with David Shire, moderated by WNYC’s David Garland
Mike Enright (experimental animation) – “Grit”
Doug Vitarelli - (experimental animation) – “In Transit”
Steve Horowitz with filmmaker Jane Brill – “The Re-Taking of Pelham One Two Three”
Jamie Bishton Dance Company – “Bloom”
David Simons with Gamelan Son of Lion – “Music for Theremin and Gamelan”
West Goes East – CalArts at The Kitchen tickets are $15 single night/$50 festival pass, available at The Kitchen box office (512 West 19th Street), online (www.thekitchen.org), or phone 212.255.5793x11.
posted by Jerry Bowles
6:00 PM
Brian Wilbur Grundstrom’s Celebration!
Brian Wilbur Grundstrom’s Celebration! To Be Presented By Trinity
Chamber Orchestra On January 16 – Richard Fazio To Conduct Washington
D.C. Performance
Brian Wilbur Grundstrom’s Celebration! for Chamber Orchestra will be
performed by the Trinity Chamber Orchestra, Richard Fazio conductor, on
January 16, 2005 at the historic Trinity Theater, 36th and O Streets NW,
in Washington DC. The work will be presented along with music by Mozart,
Puccini, Gershwin and Cecile Chaminade.
The composer writes about the work, "Celebration! deals with the joy and
celebration of life that we need to express after coming to terms with
the darker side. With all its excitement and vigor, as well as its
interesting unexpected turns, Celebration! makes a great concert
opener!" Erik E. Ochsner - Music Director of the SONOS Chamber Orchestra
has said of the work, “We had such positive feedback from audiences on
how much they enjoyed Brian Grundstrom's work, Celebration! It is
modern, yet tonal, enjoyable, and playable."
Tickets for this concert are $20, with discounts for advance sale and
children, and may be purchased by contacting the orchestra at
301-926-0936 or sending email to info@trinitychamberorchestra.org. For
directions or other concert information, please call 301-926-0936 or
visit the Trinity Chamber Orchestra online.
posted by Jerry Bowles
11:33 AM
The 11th. Other Minds Festival in SF is Approaching; Here's a link to their latest News Letter
Stay Up to Speed with Other Minds.....
They Rock
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Welcome to MindAlert!
Brought to you by Other Minds
In this issue, we bring you the winter 2004-05 issue of MindReader, an
occasional publication of Other Minds.
Please visit http://www.otherminds.org/NEWSLETTER/mindreader.pdf to download a PDF version of MindReader.
Contents:
1. Preview of the 11th Other Minds Music Festival
2. Letter from Artistic and Executive Director Charles Amirkhanian
3. Profile of Composer Marc Blitzstein
4. Reports on OM's Audio Preservation Project
5. Phrenology: Updates from OM Alumni
6. Upcoming CD Releases
7. Donor Acknowledgements
Other Minds
333 Valencia St. #303
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 934-8134
http://www.otherminds.org
posted by Duane Harper Grant
9:49 AM
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Duruflé Requiem, Los Angeles Master Chorale, January 23
Los Angeles Master Chorale “embrace”
Paul Salamunovich, Conductor
William Beck, Organ
Performance Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2005, 7 p.m. (Listen Up! pre-concert talk, 6 p.m.)
Program:
Maurice Duruflé Requiem
Zoltán Kodály Laudes Organi
Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium
Theater:
Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012
Ticket Prices:
$79, $59, $34, and $19
Public Rush seats available at box office two hours before curtain
Ticket Information:
800-787-5262; outside California call 213-972-7282
www.lamc.org or at the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office
posted by Jerry Bowles
5:12 PM
Monday, January 10, 2005
Dan Locklair’s “Symphony of Seasons” - Symphony No. 1
Dan Locklair’s “Symphony of Seasons” - Symphony No. 1, will be performed
by the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra, David Hagy, Music Director on
Saturday, January 15, 2005, 7:30 p.m. at Keppel Auditorium on the campus
of Catawba College, 2300 W. Innes Street, Salisbury, North Carolina.
The concert will also feature Haydn’s "Introduction to Winter" from The
Seasons, Vivaldi’s "Spring" from The Four Seasons, Barber’s “Knoxville:
Summer of 1915” and Glazunov’s The Seasons: "Autumn".
Tickets for this concert are $18, with discounts for students and
seniors, and may be purchased via the web at
http://www.salisburysymphony.org or through the Salisbury Symphony Box Office at (704) 637-4314.
Locklair’s Symphony No. 1, completed in January 2002, was inspired
by The Seasons, a collection of poems by eighteenth century British poet
James Thomson. The work was the result of an orchestral consortium
commission led by the Louisville Orchestra and was funded in part by the
Copying Assistance Program of the American Music Center. It was given
its World Premiere in October 2002 by Maestro Uriel Siegel and the
Louisville Orchestra and was also performed by the North Carolina
Symphony led by Maestro Jeffrey Pollock in March 2004.
posted by Jerry Bowles
3:45 PM
Sunday, January 09, 2005
6th. Annual Peoples Comissioning Fund Concert February 3, NYC
Kaufman Center presents
The Sixth Annual People’s Commissioning Fund (PCF) Concert
Featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars with Special Guest Philip Glass
129 W. 67th St. (between Broadway and Amsterdam)
Thursday, February 3, 2005, at 8 PM
Single Tickets: $20; Call the Box Office at 212 501 3330 or visit www.kaufman-center.org
The Kaufman Center presents Bang on a Can’s Sixth Annual People’s Commissioning Fund (PCF) Concert at Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday, February 3, at 8 PM. New York’s electric chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars takes on new works by Carla Kihlstedt, Cynthia Hopkins and JG (Jim) Thirlwell, then welcomes special guest Philip Glass to the stage for a rare performance of his seminal early work Music in Similar Motion. The All-Stars are fresh from a U.S. tour with Glass in which they performed early works together with him to celebrate their new recording, Philip Glass—Music in Fifths (Cantaloupe Music). The program will also include one of the very first PCF pieces: Dan Plonsey’s The Plonsey Episodes (commissioned in 1998). A special edition of New Sounds® Live, the program will be hosted by John Schaefer and presented in association with WNYC Radio.
posted by Duane Harper Grant
4:55 PM
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