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Fourth concert of the 9th Other Minds Festival. March 8, 2003. Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Artist Forum, 7:00pm: Stephen Scott, and Stephan Micus. Pre-concert artist forum with Stephen Scott, Stephan Micus, Stephen Hill. Moderated by Charles Amirkhanian. Concert, 8:00pm. Stephan Micus: On a Silent Wing (2002) (World Premiere) A selection of older and recent compositions on bass duduk, sinding, kalimba, shakuhachi, voice and other instruments. Stephan Micus, bass duduk, sinding, kalimba, shakuhachi, voice and pre-recorded sounds. Over the last thirty years I have studied and experimented with a large number of single and double reed instruments. Wih the exception of my composition "Till the End of Time," using the kortholt (a German Renaissance reed instrument), none of these experiments has ever been published, simply because there was always a touch of dissatisfaction inside me. I had a sound in my mind that would include the breath of the wind, the screams of human beings, the space of the desert and the sea, and the pure light of snow mountains. I was about to give up when finally I came across the duduk recordings of Djivan Gasparian. As soon as possible I traveled to Armenia and had the great luck that Djivan himself was ready to teach me. For his very intense lessons I shall always be grateful. It had of course been on my mind from the beginning to eventually conceive my own duduk compositions. Besides creating some solo pieces, I was very interested in combining the duduk with instruments from other cultures, especially the shakuhachi which, with its very sensual and breathy sound really seems to be the duduk's twin. Looking back, thirty years of searching does not appear much. It seems that if you truly look for something, it will eventually come to you. -Stephan Micus Pamela Wunderlich will be appearing tonight as et pied a terre and Bowling for Frida Stephen Scott: Paisajes Audibles (Audible Landscapes) for soprano and bowed piano (2002) (U.S.Premiere) Victoria Hansen, soprano; Colorado College Bowed Piano Ensemble - Nicole Benton, Elissa Greene, Alexander Smith, Laura Whalin, Daniel Wiencek, Matthew Wirzbicki, Sienna Wolf-Ekblad, Rebecca Wood, Sayo Yamaguchi; Stephen Scott, director; Amy Scott, video projection. Paisajes Audibles/Audible Landscapes was composed on commission from Meet The Composer Commissioning Music USA for Other Minds Festival 9. The work is a kind of song-cycle fantasy celebrating various landscapes, both physical and imagined, both natural and cultural, of Lanzarote, easternmost of the Canary Islands. I was inspired to make this work not only as a personal manifestation of my affection for Lanzarote, which I have now visited three times, but also in response to two other sources: the evocative work of painter/photographer /installation artist Ildefonso Aguilar, Founder and Director of the Visual Music Festival of Lanzarote and whose recent series of paintings, Paisajes Audibles, provides my title; and the poetry and prose of several writers, including Plato, Lorca and Agustin Espinosa, who have examined ideas of landscape and the humans who are shaped by it and shape it in turn. -Stephen Scott Entrada Fortunate Isle (adapted from prose by Plato and by Verner Z. Reed) Cenicero (poetry by Pedro Perdomo Acedo) Lancelot 28 (adapted from prose by Augustin Espinosa) Alba -Diez Barcos -El Aparato Caballeresco -Azul -En su Isla Poema del Cante Jondo (poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca) Solo Queda el Desierto La Guitarra Little Dance Suite -La Canaris (poetry by Stephen Scott) -Spanish Slow Dance (reprise of Solo Queda el Desierto) -El Tango Nuevo Salida
Music--20th century Composers Discussions Electro-acoustic Festivals Music Piano ensembles World music Other Minds Festival
Time Period
3/8/03
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
Provenance
Other Minds Archive California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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