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Music from Other Minds
is a program of new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world. Produced for KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco by Other Minds and presented by

Richard Friedman

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Other Minds is a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world.
Other Minds is a private not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco.
Charles Amirkhanian is the Executive Director.
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Composer Listings

Where are the program archives?
The complex and arcane copyright and digital rights rules prevent us from providing an on-demand, archive of past programs.
BUT, the previous week's program is now available for one week after broadcast, in case you missed it. See box above.

Support the composers and independent recording companies featured on these programs by buying their CDs. Full information about each recording played on these programs appears in the playlists. If you are unable to locate a recording, drop us an email... maybe we can help.

Program Playlists 90-101
with links to the composer/performer's websites and to additional information appear usually within a day after broadcast

MFOM 101 :: March 30 and April 2, 2007 :: PIANO(S) MUSIC

     

Kevin Volans: Cicada for two pianos (1994) - Mathilde Hornsveld, Jill Richards - BlackBox Music BBM1029 (2000)
Alvin Curran: The Last Acts of Julian Beck (1985) - Yvar Mikhashoff - Mode 49 (1995)
Philip Glass: Elizabeth Chooses a Career, from "Les Enfants Terribles" (1996) - Dennis Russell Davies, Maki Namekawa - Ars Electronica Linz 0022 (2004)

MFOM 100 :: March 23, 2007 :: ONE HUNDRED PROGRAMS

We've made it to the 100th program! So we go back to our roots...and revisit some of the music presented in our first programs back in early 2005.

Gavin Bryars: The South Downs (1995) - Sophie Harris, cello; Bavin Bryars, piano - Point Music - from MFOM 11
John Luther Adams: The Immeasurable Space of Tones -- Cold Blue Music (2002) -- from MFOM 6
Jim Fox: Appearance of Red - Rick Cox, electric guitar; Robert Krupnik, piano, Dane Little, cello. Recorded in 1983 - CB0008 -- MFOM 10
Peter Garland: Nostalgia for the Southern Cross, from Another Sunrise (1995) - Aki Takahashi piano - Mode Records #110 (2002) -- MFOM 12

More information is on our archive page.

MFOM 99 :: March 16, 2007 :: A Program of Leftovers

       

... things we didn't have time for in previous programs...

Dan Becker: S.T.I.C. (Sensitivity to Initial Conditions) - New Millennium Ensemble - Common Sense Composers Collective - Albany TROY899 (2007)
Ingram Marshall: Authentic Presence (Sarah Cahill, pno) - Five Easy Pieces (Sarah Cahill + Joseph Kubera) - New Albion NA130 (2006)
Linda Catlin Smith: Among the Tarnished Stars (1998) - The Burdocks Ens; Artifact ART 024 (2001)

MFOM 98 :: March 9, 2007 :: Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow:
Para Yoko (1990), Sonatina (1941) (player piano vsn alternating with 4-hands) Studies 50/51 (1991-2), Study 30, Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian (April 1977) - Other Minds OM 1002

Pieces #1 & #2 for small orch (1943/1986) - Naxos 8.559196 - Cheryl Seltzer, Joel Sachs piano four hands, Continuum Chamber Ensemble

More Nancarrow in the Other Minds collection on the Internet Archive.

MFOM 97 :: March 2, 2007 :: COMMON SENSE

Common Sense Composers Collective:

    Marc Mellits: Spam
    Belinda Reynolds: coming around...
    Carolyn Yarnell: Lapis Lazuli
                  
Common Sense Composers' Collective, New Millennium Ensemble, Albany TROY899 (2007)

Dan Joseph: Percussion and Strings (2004) - Archaea: Mutablemusic 17525

Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (1963) - Aki Takahashi - Mode 54

MFOM 96 :: February 23, 2007 :: A Musical Séance

  

Leo Ornstein: Six Preludes for Cello and Piano (1929-30); Composition 1 for cello and piano - Joshua Gordon, cello, Randall Hodgkinson, pno - New World Records 80655 (2007)

George Antheil: Sonata #2 for Violin and Piano (1923) - Vera Beths, vn; Reinbert de Leeuw, pno - Disques Montaigne 1995 (out of print)

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Double (1994) - Signe Madsen, vn; Erik Kaltoft, pno - DaCapo 8.224225

MFOM 95 :: February 16, 2007 :: THREE

    

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

MFOM 94 :: February 9, 2007 :: TWO OPERAS ABOUT PLACES

  

Excerpts from two recent operas -

Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe :: The Carbon Copy Building - Bang on a Can Ens. - Cantaloupe 21038 (2006)
..based on the picture stories of Ben Katchor.

Philippe Manoury :: 60th Parallel - Orchestre de Paris + soloists conducted by David Robertson - Naxos 8.554249/50 (1998)

MFOM 93 :: February 2, 2007 - FOUR QUARTETS

        

:: Four single-movement quartets, 1961-1994 ::

Jorge Liderman: String Quartet #3 (1994) - Cuarteto Latinoamericano - Albany Records TROY651 (2004)

Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartet #2 (1987) - Arditti Quartet - Disques Montaigne 789007 (1991)

Cristobal Halffter: String Quartet #3 (1978) - Arditti Quartet - Disques Montaigne 789006 (1990)

Toshiro Mayuzumi: Prelude for String Quartet (1961) - LaSalle Quartet - DGG 423245 (1968)

MFOM 92 :: January 26, 2006 :: Worlds Apart? Messiaen and Takemitsu

  

Olivier Messaien (1908-1992): Theme and Variations for violin and piano - 1932 - Gidon Kremer, vn; Martha Argerich, pno - DG 427351 (1990)

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996): Quotation of the Dream (1991); Twill By Twilight (1988); Dream Window (1985)
London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen cnd - DG 453495 (1998)

See Alex Ross's excellent article on Takemitsu in the New Yorker.

MFOM 91 :: January 19, 2007 :: THINKING

  

Maria de Alvear: THINKING (2000), for piano + violin + video - piano: Stephen Clarke, violin: Marc Sabat; based on texts by: Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo:

THE THINKING OF PEOPLE

WHEN I SPEAK OF THE SPIRIT
IT IS FAR BEYOND WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK OF.
I'M CONFIDENT IN MY WAYS.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF ME
BECAUSE I DO KNOW THAT WHAT I HAVE BEEN SHOWN
AND TOLD IS FAR BEYOND.

Recording: 12.1.2001, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada; LIVE UNEDITED CONCERT RECORDING. World Edition CD0009

MFOM 90 :: December 8, 2006 :: Ives, Wolff, Kondo

   

Charles Ives: Emerson Concerto (1911) - reconstructed by David Porter - Alan Feinberg pno, James Sinclair, cond, Nat'l Symph Orch of Ireland - Naxos 8.559175 (2003)

Christian Wolff: For Si (1991) - Array Music Ensemble - Artifact 035

Jo Kondo: Aesculus (1992) - Array Music Ens - ART 035

PLAYLIST ARCHIVES:

»Playlists for programs 1 thru 12 (7 Jan - 25 March 2005)
»Playlists for programs 13 thru 24 (1 April - 17 June 2005)  
»Playlists for programs 25-34 (25 June - 26 August 2005)
»Playlists for progams 35-50 (2 September - 16 December 2005)
»Playlists for progams 51-60 (February 3 - April 7 2006)
»Playlists for programs 61-70 (April 14 - June 16 2006)
»Playlists for programs 71-89 (June 23 - December 1 2006)