Other Minds Special Programs ➔ New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 1, Birds in Warped Time (video)

Digital Moving Image


Event Type
Music
Origin
Other Minds
Identifier
NMS.2008.12.06.1.c2
Program Series
New Music Seance
Program Length
90 min
Dates
| 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 first concert, entitled “Birds in Warped Time”, featured music by the pioneering American composers Percy Grainger and Steed Cowart; a host of women composers including Grażyna Bacewicz, Meredith Monk, and Lois V. Vierk; two Asian composers, Somei Satoh and Tan Dun; European masters of the avant-garde such as Per Nørgård, Luciano Berio, and Oliver Messiaen; and Dylan Mattingly a promising talent who has yet to reach his 20th birthday.
Genres
20th century classical
New music
Musical Selections
Shepherd’s Hey, for piano (1908) (2:22) / Percy Grainger -- Irish Tune from County Derry, for piano (1902) (2:53) / Percy Grainger --Stained Glass Window, for piano and violin (1932) (2:43) / Grażyna Bacewicz -- Melodia, for piano and violin (1946) (2:43) / Grażyna Bacewicz -- St. Petersburg Waltz, for piano (1993) (6:36) / Meredith Monk -- Birds in Warped Time II, for piano and violin (1980) (10:17) / Somei Satoh -- Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1: No. 1 Missing Moon ; No. 2 Staccato Beans ; No. 3 Herdboy’s Song ; No. 7 Floating Clouds ; No. 8 Sunrain, for piano (1978-79) (8:38) / Tan Dun -- Animals in Concert: No. 1 Esperanza, A Hermit Crab Tango ; No. 2 Tortoise Tango: Without Jealousy, for piano (1988) (6:37) / Per Nørgård -- Night No. 3, for piano (2008) (7:00) / Dylan Mattingly -- Wasserklavier, for piano (1964) (1:42) / Luciano Berio -- To Stare Astonished at the Sea, for amplified piano strings (1994) (5:58) / Lois V. Vierk -- Blackberry Winter, for piano (2007) (6:58) / Steed Cowart -- Fantaisie, for violin and piano (1933) (7:23) / Olivier Messiaen
Performers
Sarah Cahill, piano (Shepard ; Irish ; Birds ; Night ; Wasserklavier ; Stare ; Blackberry)
Kate Stenberg, violin (Stained ; Melodia ; Birds ; Fantaisie)
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano (Stained ; Melodia ; Eight ; Animals ; Fantaisie)
Subjects
20th century classical
New music
Avant-garde (Music)
Piano music
Folk dance music, English
Violin and piano music
Waltzes
Suites (Piano)