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The New Music Séance 3 takes place Saturday, December 6, 2008 at San Francisco's beautiful Swedenborgian Church. Make plans to attend. Tickets are available here.

Seance
l to r: participants Sarah Cahill, Kate Stenberg, Eva-Maria Zimmermann

Just released!
Conlon Nancarrow's
Studies for Player Piano
,
the original 1750 Arch Recordings,
a four CD set.
Get it today.

Nancarrow cover

Writings on Nacarrow from Soundings Press are now
available online.
Click here.


Sticky Melodies

With this 2-CD set much of Johanna Magdalena Beyer’s music can be heard for the first time. On sale now $24 (reg. $30). Also on sale: Ruth Crawford & Johanna Beyer
9 Preludes $13.60 (reg. $17) and New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media $12 (reg. $15)

" . . . a major event in terms of rectifying a terrible omission in American music . . . an important voice worthy of discovery."
—Robert Carl, Fanfare

A first edition of Ezra Pound’s first opera Le Testament, a double volume with the editor’s reconstruction of the 1926 Paris Salle Pleyel concert & the 1933 complete score, Pound’s own final version, has been added to the series The Music of Ezra Pound.

Along with the other books in the series, edited by Margaret Fisher & Robert Hughes, it can be ordered from our Webstore here.

Testament

 

Save the dates:
Other Minds Festival 14
(March 5-6-7, 2009)

John Schneider
John Schneider, guitarist
to be featured at OM 14

OM 14 artists will include Michael Harrison (USA), Ben Johnston (USA)
Catherine Lamb (USA), Chico Mello (Brazil), Pawel Mykietyn (Poland)
John Schneider (USA), Linda Catlin Smith (Canada), Bent Sørensen (Denmark), and Pawel Szymanski (Poland). Click on names to read bios.

You can order tickets from the SFJCC box office.

Listen to the Other Minds Festival 13
at radiom.org.
Follow these links:

Concert 1, March 6, 2008
Concert 2, March 7, 2008
Concert 3, March 8, 2008

Our new CD release is out and you can hear excerpts here. Ring of Fire by the Del Sol String Quartet has music by Kui Dong, Chinary Ung, Jack Body, Gabriela Lena Frank, Hyo-shin Na, Zhou Long, John Adams, Peter Sculthorpe, and including an improvisation by the quartet. Buy it here.

Ring of Fire CD

OM has just released a new CD
of the music of Kui Dong:

Hands Like Waves Unfold
Order here

Kui Dong

American composer Henry Brant died Saturday, April 26, at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was 94. There are links here to Henry Brant and his music.

Brant's Pulitzer Prize winning Ice Field, commissioned by Other Minds and premiered at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, December 2001.

A video of Henry Brant with SF Symphony's Michael Tilson Thomas can be viewed here.

Henry Brant In Memoriam
(composer David A. Jaffe)

Brant at organ
Henry Brant at the organ, Davies Symphony Hall, December 2001.

Links to Henry Brant on radIOM.org:

Henry Brant at KPFA, 1971
Henry Brant on "Speaking of Music." 1984
"Meteor Farm" by Henry Brant, 1982
"Homeless People" by Henry Brant, Other Minds 4, 1997

 

Other Minds 08/09 Season
FALL FUNDRAISER
Carter

Featuring internationally renowned pianist URSULA OPPENS
In celebration of Elliott Carter's
100th Birthday and to benefit the Other Minds Festival of New Music (details here)

Visit our newly revamped radiOM.org site to hear 100s of hours of music & interviews with Maverick composers. Listen to Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Lou Harrison, John Cage, Anthony Braxton, Conlon Nancarrow, Aaron Copland, Edgar Varese and many others.

radiom.org

Special Sale on Other Minds
Umbrella & Tote Bag

Umbrella & Tote

Dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni
recorded John Cage's 18 Microtonal Ragas for the Other Minds label. You can order the CD of this extraordinary work here.

Amelia Cuni

Music From Other Minds
on KALW-FM

Other Minds is now on KALW with a new series - "Music from Other Minds" - curated and hosted by Richard Friedman every Friday night (Pacific time) at 11pm. You can listen live in the San Francisco Bay Area at 91.7 FM or hear the stream from their website. Playlist and more information is available at the Music from Other Minds website.

Our award winning video In Between the Notes - a Portrait of Pandit Pran Nath, Master Indian Musician is now available on DVD. Order it from our webstore.

Pandit Pran Nath

 

Check this out!
CDs featuring the Music of Philip Glass and others - now available from our webstore

 
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