Other Minds Festivals ➔ Evelyn Glennie, Charles Amirkhanian, standing, Jack Body, and Ned Rorem, rest are seated, having a discussion, Woodside CA, (2003)
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IM.OM.FP.0009.005Dates
2003-03-01/2003-03-31 | createdWork Type
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OM09: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Evelyn Glennie, Charles Amirkhanian, Jack Body, and Ned Rorem (l to r), having a discussion 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.Evelyn Glennie, a native of Scotland, has carved a new place for solo percussion in the realm of classical music, and has melded traditions and instrumentation from around the world to create new ways of performing and, indeed, of hearing percussion as music in its own right. Because she has defied convention by crossing the traditionally rigid boundaries of formal, folkloric, and popular musical forms, this uncommonly versatile musician has managed to draw new audiences to the classical world. In the context of such a vibrant and illustrious career, the fact that Glennie has been profoundly deaf since the age of twelve seems, at first, amazing. But for her, it is virtually irrelevant. Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch and sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals which are then interpreted in the brain. Glennie can identify the notes according to the vibrations she feels through her feet and body.
Charles Amirkhanian, is a composer, percussionist, and irrepressible promoter of new music in all it varieties. He was the Music Director at KPFA-FM in Berkeley from 1969 to 1992 where he pioneered adventurous avant-garde musical programming and almost single-handedly revived the career’s of a number of previously neglected American composers. Since 1992 Amirkhanian has been the Executive and Artistic Director of Other Minds.
Jack Body (born in 1944) studied at Auckland University (1963-67). With a QEII Arts Council grant he attended the Ferien Kurse fur Neue Musik, Cologne and Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, Netherlands (1969/70). For two years (1976-77) he was a guest lecturer at the Akademi Musik Indonesia, Yogyakarta, and since 1980 he has lectured at the School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington. His music covers almost all genres, including solo and chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music for dance and film as well as electroacoustic music. A fascination with the music and cultures of Asia, particularly Indonesia, has been a strong influence on his music.
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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Women
Musicians
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Discussion
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John Fago / Other MindsPhoto Credits
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Other Minds Festival 9Related place
Woodside (Calif.) (was created at)Related Entities
Fago, JohnGlennie, Evelyn
Amirkhanian, Charles
Body, Jack, 1944-
Rorem, Ned, 1923-
Other Minds Festival
Djerassi Resident Artists Program