Other Minds Festivals ➔ Amy X Neuburg, looking down, and William Parker and Ned Rorem, looking right, head and shoulders portrait, seated, Woodside CA, (2003)
Still image
Identifier
IM.OM.FP.0009.001Dates
2003-03-01/2003-03-31 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Group PhotographsImage Series
OM09: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Amy X Neuburg, William Parker, and Ned Rorem (l to r) during a meeting during their retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to their participation in the 9th Other Minds Music Festival in March of 2003.Amy X Neuburg trained as a classical vocalist at Oberlin College and went on to study electronic music at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. There she composed and performed with Pauline Oliveros, David Rosenboom, and Chris Brown, and studied percussion with William Winant. As a vocalist she has toured throughout Europe, Japan, and the U.S. She was a core member of the experimental musical theater ensemble MAP, spent nine years performing with her electronic avant-cabaret band Amy X Neuburg & Men, and has worked with fellow techno-vocalists Emily Bezar and Pamela Z, among others.
After entering the New York music scene in 1972 at the age of 20, William Parker quickly became the bass player of choice among his peers. Within a short time he was asked to play with established musicians such as Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Billy Higgins, and Sunny Murray. In 1980 he became a member of the Cecil Taylor Unit, in which he performed for over a decade.
Words and music are inextricably linked for Ned Rorem. Time Magazine has called him “the world’s best composer of art songs,” yet his musical and literary ventures extend far beyond that specialized field. Rorem has composed three symphonies, four piano concertos and an array of orchestral works, chamber music, six operas, choral works of every description, ballets and other music for the theater, and hundreds of songs and cycles. He is the author of fifteen books, including five volumes of diaries. Rorem was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1923, studied composition at the Juilliard School and received his M.A. degree in 1948.
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Group portraits--2000-2010Women
Men
Composers
Musicians
Image Ownership
John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
John FagoRelated Event
Other Minds Festival 9Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnNeuburg, Amy X, 1962-
Parker, William, 1952-
Rorem, Ned, 1923-
Other Minds Festival
Djerassi Resident Artists Program