Program Playlists
with links to the composer/performer's websites and to additional information appearing usually within a day after broadcast

On the next Music From Other Minds Broadcast we will feature two brand new releases from the independent label OgreOgress Productions out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Alan Hovhaness: Talin - Slovak Philharmonic (strings) and Christina Fong (viola) - OgreOgress New Release

John Cage: Twenty-Eight - Prague Winds - OgreOgress - (Radio Premiere)

Kui Dong: Blue Bird and Red Bird (Prepared Piano Improvisation) - Other Minds 1011 (2007)

Elena Kats-Chernin:  Gypsy Ramble  (1996)
             Patricia Pollett, viola; Nicholas Bochner, cello; Carson Dron, piano. - Tall Poppies TP181 (2006)

Alwynne Pritchard: Invisible Cities (1999)
                            Ian Pace, piano - Metier MSV CD 92040 (2002)

Hyo-Shin Na:  Walking, Walking (2004)
                            Thomas Schultz, piano - New World Records 80674 (2008)

Karlheinz Stockhausen's STIMMUNG from 1968 in an excellent new Harmonia Mundi recording and new interpretation (Copenhagen 2007) by Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices -  Harmonia Mundi 807408 (2007)

Greg Sandow's WSJ review of this recording from September 2007 is here.

(While Stimmung is over 78 minutes long, we will be hearing the final 50 minutes) 

Stockhausen's handwritten score is dated "San Francisco 1967" is published by Universal Edition.

More information about Stimmung is here and here. 

My own photograph from a 1971 Paris performance with the original Collegium Vocale:

Elena Kats-Chernin: Concertino  (1994)
                     Georges Lentz, solo violin; Sydney Alpha Ensemble, David Stanhope, cond
                     ABC 456 4682 (1997)

Keeril Makan:  Still (2006) for violin & viola and chamber orchestra
                     Graeme Jennings, violin; Masumi Rostad, viola; Univ of Illinois Sinfonia da Camera, Vlad
                     Conta, conductor.     Live performance Sept 2006, Urbana IL  (unreleased)

Frances-Marie Uitti: There Still Is Time for speaking voice and cello (1997)
                     Text based on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Ophelia) by Paul Griffiths, and read by him
                     ECM New 1882 (2005)

Frances-Marie Uitti, Keeril Makan, and Elena Kats-Chernin will be featured composer/performers at OM 13 in next weekend, March 6-8 in San Francisco      Details here.

 

           from MISSA, Sanctus (excerpt)  (1987)    Wergo 6218 (1993)

 

 Excerpts from Hans Otte's Das Buch der Klänge, The Book of Sounds.
          Hans Otte, piano (1983)  Celestial Harmonies (reissue) 12069 (2006)

Hans Otte passed away Christmas day, 2007, at age 81. 

 

Kyle Gann: Saintly, from Private Dances,  Time Does Not Exist,   On Reading Emerson
               Sarah Cahill, piano; on Private Dances, New Albion NA 137 (2007)  

And a brief tribute to Berkeley composer Jorge Liderman who tragically passed away last week.

Jorge Liderman: Swirling Streams (2003) -  David Tanenbaum, guitar; Earplay, Mary Chun cond. - Bridge 9150 (2004)
                             and selections from Aires de Sefarad - 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar
                                #1: Por la tu puerta yo pasi (I came through the door)
                              #24: Adios querida (Good bye my dear)
                              Duo 46: Matt Gould, guitar; Beth Ilana Schneider, violin - Albany TROY 829

Note that MFOM programs are no longer being repeated on Monday nights on KALW due to schedule changes

John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil
   Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi, pianos; Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, percussion
   Cold Blue CB0026 (2007) 

Red Arc/Blue Veil (2001) is the first piece in a projected cycle exploring the geometry of time and color—what Kandinsky called "those inner sounds that are the life of the colors". J L Adams

Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Illustrazioni sulle metamorfosi di Vishnu (1953)
   Fabrizio Ottaviucci, pno. Stradivarius STR 33801 (2007)

"The first illustration is fluid and hypnotic and is intended to represent the thousand-headed cosmic snake entwined around the head of Vishu; the second is very energetic and dynamic and represents Vishnu incarnated as a boar seeking the origins of life in the depts of the earth; the third is elegant and seductive and illustrates King Rama who ruled over a kingdom of great splendour in ancient times; the fourth is transcendental and represents Krishna the boy king." G. Scelsi

Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari (1986); Piano Piece for  Philip Guston (1963)
   Marianne Schroeder, pno. Hat Now CD6035 (1990) Hat Hut Records (Switzerland)

 "I am reminded of an observation Feldman made a few months prior to the composing of Palais de Mari, when he had been visiting the Metropolitan Museum in New York and had by chance come upon a late work by Degas. He was admiring the work expressly for the thinness in the application of the paint to the canvas, and remarked that he wished to work in a similar way in his own music."  Barbara Monk Feldman

Also, many interesting concerts in the Bay Area over the next two weeks. Look here.

Elena Kats-Chernin: Clocks (1993)
    Sydney Alpha Ensemble, David Stanhope, conductor.   ABC Classics 4564682

Michael Gordon: Van Gogh, excerpts  (2006)
    Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, cond.    Cantaloupe Music 21044 (2007)

Giacinto Scelsi:   Riti: I Funerali di Achille (1962) ::   String Quartet #2 (1962)
                         Stradivarius  STR 33801 (2007)

John Luther Adams:  Dark Waves
                   Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi, pianos, Scott Deal and Stuart Gerber, perc
                   Cold Blue  26 (2007)

Elena Kats-Chernin:  Variations in a Serious Black Dress
                     Stephanie McCallum, pno -  ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) 4564682  (2004)

Gérard Grisey:  Vortex Temporum (1996) for piano and five instruments
         Ensemble Risognanze. Stradivarius STR 33734 (2007)

Walter Zimmermann:  The Echoing Green (1989) for violin and piano
         Peter Rundel, vn, Hermann Kretzschmar, pno;  Mode 150 (2005)

Carl writes:
"AL-NOOR was created using the Max/MSP programming language in the studios of Radio Free Nakano, in Japan. The starting source material is a vietnamese lullaby, resynthesized using a number of contrasting vocal articulations and harmonic sets, derived from different musics from other parts of the world."

Walter Zimmermann: Northwest Passage (1995) - Array Music artifact ART 035 (2005)
Martin Bresnick: Grace (2000) - Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, soloists; Norichika Limori, conductor
                   "That Peace We Yearn For", from Songs of the Mouse People (1999) - New World 80635 (2005)
Linda Catlin Smith: Memory Forms - CBC Radio Orchestra. Artifact, ART 024 2001

Conlon Nancarrow: Toccata for violin and player piano (1935)
Mari Kimura: Polytopia for violin and interactive computer (2004)
Tania León: Axon for violin and interactive computer (2002)
    ---- Mari Kimura, violin ; Bridge Records 9236 (2007)
           

Ralph Shapey: 21 Variations for Piano (1978)
    Wanda Maximilien, piano; New World Records 80681 (2007)
   
 

Tonight's program is a rebroadcast of program number 103:

Michael Gordon: from LIGHT IS CALLING, Idle, Light Is Calling, imereadywhenyouare, Soundtrack 23 - Nonesuch 78801 (2003) 

Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra - Rashér Saxophone Quartet, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russel Davies cond.  Nonesuch 79469 (1998)

Ian Wilson: Atlantica (2001) - Amstel Saxophone Quartet - Contemporary Music From Ireland, Vol 6 CMC CD06

Iva Bittová:   from ELIDA:  Painters in Paris; Zapiskej (Whistle)
                        Bang on a Can All Stars, Cantaloupe CA 21027  (2005)
                       
                    from MATER by Vladimir Godar: Magnificat
                     Iva Bittová voice; Miloš Valent violin, viola
                     Chamber orchestra Solamente Naturali, Bratislava conservatory choir
                     ECM New 1985 (2005)

Agata Zubel:    Sequenza III  (Luciano Berio)
                      Stories (for voice and prepared piano)
                       (unreleased recordings)
                      

John Cage/ Amelia Cuni:   from Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas (from Song Books 1970)
                         Raga 14, Raga 8; Amelia Cuni, vocals  Other Minds 1010  2007      

NOTICE:  

Iva Bittová will be appearing at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley on Thursday Nov 1. (INFO)

Amelia Cuni will be appearing in a U.S. premiere of the complete Solo for Voice 58: 18  Microtonal Ragas by John Cage on Friday November 2 at St. John's Church in Berkeley. (INFO)

Lou Harrison:  Here is Splendor (from Four Strict Songs)
       UC Santa Cruz Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra
       Nicole Paiement, cond   New World 80666

Here is Splendor — of the airplant Spanish moss asway in sun.
Here is Splendor — of the airplant, and the cobra arching his head.
Here is Splendor — of the galaxy in Andromeda.
Here is Splendor — of the galaxy, and the turquoise cloudless heaven.

John Luther Adams: for Lou Harrison (2004)  (excerpt, 2nd half)
       The Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor
       New World 80669      
       Read the wonderful essay by Peter Garland about this work here (PDF)

Eric Richards: finalbells (2004)  for 16 chromatic cow bells
      Alan Zimmerman.  New World 80673
 

ERGODICITY  is usually described in terms of objective properties of an ensemble of objects. (See this.)

James Tenney:  Ergodos II (1964) (electronic tape); Ergodos III (1994) for two pianos
                        Frank Denyer and Nora Mulder, pianos
                        Mode 185 (2007)

Ralph Shapey: String Quartet #7 (1972)
                       Quartet of the Contemporary Chamber Players of the U of Chicago
                       New World Records 80681 (2007)  

"The fervent end of Shapey's Seventh String Quartet with its maze of turn figures achieves a late-Beethovenesque spirituality." -- Kyle Gann

                             Read  Kyle Gann's article on Shapey 
 

Lou Harrison: Solstice (1950)
    Ensemble conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
    New World Records 80666  (2007)

Erling Wold: Mordake Suite (2007)
    San Francisco Composer's Chamber Orchestra
    unreleased recording from live concert Sept 15, 2007

Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
     Bang on a Can All-Stars
     Cantaloupe CA21041 (2006)  

Lou Harrison: The Triumph of Ariadne and Dionysos (1987)
 Leta Miller flute; William Winant perc ; New World Records 80666  (2007)

Philip Glass: Four scenes from Les Enfants Terribles
         Overture, The Bedroom, Snow Falling in the Playground, Elizabeth Chooses a Career
         Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies
         Ars Electronica (Austria) 0022 (2004)

The complete Scenes from Les Enfants Terribles by Philip Glass will be performed by Namekawa and Davies (with the composer present) at a benefit concert for Other Minds in San Francisco on October 11. More information is on the Other Minds Website

Mauricio Kagel: Four transcriptions from Rrrrr...
         Ragtime-Waltz, Rosalie, Raga, Nightingales with colds
         Alexandre Tharaud, pno   Aeon AECD 0311 (2003)

John Cage: The Perilous Night (1944), A Room (1943)
        Philipp Vandré, pno
        Mode 180

Gérard Pesson (1958-):  
   La vita é come l'albero di Natale (Life is like the tree of birth) (1992), violin and piano
   Non sapremo mai di questo mi  (We will never know this of me) (1991), flute, violin, piano
   Mes Béatitudes (1995), violin, viola, cello, piano
       Ensemble Alternance - Stradivarius  STR 33755 (2007)

Francis White (1960-):
    Centre Bridge (dark river) (2001) for string quintet and electronic sound -  Mode 184 (2007)

Zachary Watkins:
    Suite for String Quartet -  Emily Packard: vn, Angela Hsu: vn, Liz Meredith: Viola, Teresa Wong: vc
    unreleased recording from last year's Signal Flow concert at Mills College

Zachary Watkins will be one of the composer/performers featured at the Tenth Annual Thingamajigs Festival in Oakland next weekend, September 28-30.