Other Minds Special Programs ➔ New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 2, Deep River Dreams (video)
Digital Moving Image
Event Type
MusicOrigin
Other MindsIdentifier
NMS.2008.12.06.2.c2Program Series
New Music SeanceProgram Length
74 minDates
| broadcast| 2008-12-06 | created
Description
Summoning the specters of musical forbears, and channeling the spirits of their successors, the 2008 New Music Seance Concerts featured a marathon of performances by pianist Sarah Cahill, and the dynamic violin/piano duo of Kate Stenberg and Eva-Maria Zimmermann. The concerts were held in the intimate, candle lit setting of the historic Arts & Crafts styled Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco on December 6, 2008. The second concert, entitled “Deep River Dreams”, featured music by such recognized 20th century composers as Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman, and Ingram Marshall, who’s recent composition “Movement (Deep in My Heart)” received its world premiere. Also included is an arrangement of the Anglo-African composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Deep River”, three movements from Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album” which were inspired by photographs by Martin Chambi, and Mamoru Fujieda’s “The Olive Branch Speaks” which is from her series “Patterns of Plants” in which electric potential readings from living plant form the basis of the melodic patterns.Genres
20th century classicalNew music
Musical Selections
Excursions, Op. 20, for piano (1944) (12:23) / Samuel Barber -- Eight Preludes: No. 5 Les sons impalpables du reve ; No. 6 Cloches d’angoisse et larmes d’adieu, for piano (1929) (11:30) / Olivier Messiaen -- Piano Piece (1955) / Morton Feldman -- Piano Piece A (1956) / Morton Feldman -- Piano Piece B (1956) / Morton Feldman -- 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59: No. 10 Deep River (arr. ca. 1904) (4:25) / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [arr. for violin and piano by Maud Powell] -- Movement (Deep in My Heart), for piano (2008) (6:17) / Ingram Marshall [world premiere] -- Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album: No. 5 Adoración para Angelitos ; No. 6 Harawi de Chambi ; No. 7 Marinera, for violin and piano (2002) (8:31) / Gabriela Lena Frank -- The Olive Branch Speaks, for piano (2008) (8:20) / Mamoru FujiedaPerformers
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano (Excursions ; Eight ; Sueños)Sarah Cahill, piano (Piano Pieces ; Movement ; Olive)
Kate Stenberg, violin (Negro ; Sueños)
Subjects
20th century classicalNew music
Piano music
Violin and piano music, Arranged
Violin and piano music
Related Event
A New Music Séance III (2008)Related place
San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)Related Entities
Amirkhanian, CharlesBarber, Samuel, 1910-1981
Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992
Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912
Powell, Maud, 1867-1920
Marshall, Ingram, 1942-
Frank, Gabriela Lena
Fujieda, Mamoru
Zimmermann, Eva-Maria (Pianist)
Cahill, Sarah
Stenberg, Kate (Violinist)