Other Minds Special Programs ➔ New Music Seance: 2008: Concert No. 1, Birds in Warped Time, 12 of 13

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

Other Minds

Identifier

NMS.2008.12.06.1.c1.L

Program Series

New Music Seance

Program Length

85 min

Part

12 of 13

Dates

| broadcast
| 2009-12-06 | 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

Blackberry Winter, for piano (2007) (6:58) / Steed Cowart

Performers

Sarah Cahill, piano

Subjects

20th century classical
Piano music

Related Event

A New Music Séance III (2008)

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Cowart, Steed
Cahill, Sarah