C - SFPL.org Caccialanza, Gisella See Christensen, Gisella Caccialanza Cage, Nicolas (Actor)cahill, sarah (pianist, critic and disc jockey) Caliman, Hadley (Jazz http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/main/art/musicians/c.htm
Lonesome.road.hanover.notes.html toured the work in North America in the Spring of 1995, sponsored by the Pro HelvetiaFoundation and Bay Area pianists, directed by pianist sarah cahill. http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/misc_writings/program_notes/lonesome.road.ha
Extractions: Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations) is a set of variations on Ruth Crawford's harmonization of the folk song of the same name. Her arrangement was published in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag (1927). The work is in three sections of 17 variations each. The variations in the middle section (XVIII; XXXIV) are generally longer and more developed than those in the outer sections. In many cases, corresponding variations in the three sections are related, and have similar structures (Variation I is related to XVIII, which is related to XXXV). Sections 1 and 3 are each about 20 minutes long, section 2 about 40 minutes. Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations) was composed over the course of one year spent in Indonesia (June 1988; June 1989), where I assisted my wife Jody Diamond in her work with Indonesian experimental composers. Many of these composers' ideas somehow found their way into this work, but I can no longer remember how (except in the case of B. Subono, a Central Javanese composer after whom two of the variations were named).
S A N | F R A N C I S C O | C L A S S I C A L | V O I C E (sarah cahill is a pianist and a music critic for the Express, and hostsa music show on KPFA (94.1 FM) every Friday from 10 am to noon.). http://www.sfcv.org/arts_revs/compinc_10_19_99.html
Extractions: By Sarah Cahill "You have to be high on drugs to like that music!" grumbled a distinguished composer after hearing Steve Reich's Proverb at the Composers, Inc. season-opening concert last Tuesday. While some of us found the Reich piece innocuous, it was pleasing to find that it struck a listener's nerve. Composers, Inc. is an excellent new music series, but Tuesday's program was uncharacteristically bland. At least Reich's piece riled someone. Of the other four pieces sharing the concert, three belong to the vast pile of new music being written which neither stimulates nor enriches nor provokes its audience, but simply exists. Reich's Proverb deliberates on one sentence from Wittgenstein, and pays tribute to the 12th century composer Perotin. Sopranos Andrea Fullington, Allison Zelles Lloyd, and Sonja Rasmussen, who sing on the Nonesuch recording of the work, appeared for this performance. Luminously, they sang a single line in a canon, the combination striking dissonances. Tenors Matthew Oltman and Jeffrey Keim, both new members of Chanticleer, joined them in rich, warm duets. Marika Kuzma appeared to be conducting admirably, but for some reason, the ensemble of two vibraphones and two keyboards sounded tentative and disjointed. Steve Reich and Perotin, along with Gyorgy Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow, and Johannes Ciconia, have filled their music with hockets, the device of overlapping two or more independent voices, each with rests which correspond to pitches sounded in another voice, to create one continuous line. Liderman framed his
Music Reviews a brief tribute at http//www.otherminds.org/shtml/Ornstein.shtml which includesa link to a video performance of Berkeley pianist sarah cahill performing the http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_10_2/music-39-may-2003.html
Extractions: Piano Music by Leo Ornstein Marc André Hamelin Hyperion CDA67320 Performance Sonics Ornstein: Piano Music Janice Weber Naxos 8.559104 Performance Sonics The Piano Music of Leo Ornstein One of the most important near-forgotten composers of the last century, Leo Ornstein died last year (2002) at what is believed to have been 109 years of age. Ornstein began his musical career as a Russian child prodigy, taking his first piano lessons with Vladimir Puchalsky, later teacher of Vladimir Horowitz. He was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatoire at age 12 on the recommendation of the legendary pianist Joseph Hoffman. The son of a synagogue cantor, Ornstein and his family fled his native land in 1906 (as did my own grandparents) to escape the anti-semitic pogroms, and settled in New York City where Leo began lessons at what later became the Juilliard School of Music. A year after Ornsteins concert debut in 1911 he later gave the first U.S. performances of music by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, and Kodály he began writing music of such ferocious modernity that some questioned his sanity. He used the piano percussively, composing such on the edge works as Suicide in an Airplane. Ferruccio Busoni, Percy Grainger, and other contemporary composers soon acknowledged Ornsteins compositional radicalism.
Music Reviews s writing are with a fullness and integrity that shows the pianists genius in PhillipBush, Kathleen Supove, and the Bay Areas own sarah cahill add their http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_8_2/music-classical-part-25-april-2001.htm
Extractions: Ratings: Extraordinary Good Acceptable Mediocre Poor MURRAY PERAHIA BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS SONY SK 89243 PERFORMANCE: SONICS: Rarely does one encounter a performance so illuminated by genius as pianist Murray Perahias Grammy-nominated interpretation of the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Bach wrote his four-minute "aria" and 30 variations for his pupil, virtuoso harpsichordist J.G. Goldberg, and published them in 1742. The most famous piano recording of these gems, the 1955 monaural classic by the 22-year old Glenn Gould (now available in a Sony 20-bit reissue), brought the Goldberg Variations back into the harpsichord and piano repertoire, where they have remained ever since as benchmarks of keyboard prowess. The Gould of 1955 played many of the Goldberg Variations at such a stunningly fast pace as to leave ones mouth agape. What makes his recording so extraordinary is that his startling technique is married to interpretive insights that touch on emotional as well as visceral levels. By way of comparison, I played portions of both Glenn Gould recordings of the work plus the recent, critically lauded version by Angela Hewitt on Hyperion. While Goulds first recording bowls one over with its combination of speed-of-lightning digitation and emotional depth, his elimination of repeats proves a frequent source of frustration. His second stereo version, recorded toward the end of his life, offers better sound, but reveals an artist whose technical proficiency seems detached from his emotional being.
Carl Stone Other News Archive New Work for Yamaha Disklavier, Carl s work SA RIT GOL, for pianist and Yamaha Disklavier,written at the request of sarah cahill, was premiered as part of the http://www.sukothai.com/v.2/News/NewsArchive.html
Extractions: back to Carl Stone Home Upcoming Concert Page EXUSIAI The musical score for EXUSIAI, the collaboration between Carl and dancer/choreographer Akira Kasai which had its premiereAugust 28 1998 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco has been released. Click here for availability information. EXUSIAI met great critical success . Musical examples are available online in RealAudio format. Carl at DSP Summer School - Japan Carl Stone returned as a guest performing artist for the 2001 Digital Signal Processing Summer School (DSPSS) in Japan. Fellow guests and faculty members will include Klarenz Barlow (Germany), Masayuki Akamatsu, Masahiro Miwa, Suguro Goto, and Nobuyasu Sakonda. His first appearance was as a faculty member for the 2nd Annual DSPSS, which took place September 12-16 2000, sponsored by IAMAS , the International Academy of Arts and Sciences in Gifu Japan . Photos are available ! While in Japan, Carl also presented several lecture/performances at Musahino and Chukyo Universities.
SFPALM -- Programs & Events March 2002 PALM Preview Featuring an interview with pianist sarah cahill,moderator of the BAY AREA WOMEN COMPOSERS SYMPOSIUM March 16th. http://www.sfpalm.org/programs/previews.htm
Extractions: PALM Previews are hosted by Brad Rosenstein, SFPALM Director of Programs and Education. November 2002 PALM Preview: A preview of , held November 18, 2002 at SFPALM. October 2002 PALM Preview: An interview with Patricia Jenson , producer of Tango a Media Luz , discussing Argentine Tango. A lecture about and demonstration of Argentine Tango was held at the SFPALM October 10, 2002. September 2002 PALM Preview Featuring clips from the opening night conversation with Sandra Woodall , scene and costume designer. For more information on the exhibition NATURAL SELECTIONS: Stage Designs by Sandra Woodall click here May 2002 PALM Preview: Featuring clips from the West Coast premier of Desert Boy on a Stick and the subsequent conversation with cellistJoan Jeanrenaud and composer Bob Ostertag April 2002 PALM Preview: Featuring a conversation with Cabaret Artist Welsa Whitfield , who sang a one-night only concert of all Richard Rodgers music in the Herbst Theatre to benefit SFPALM. The concert kicked off SFPALM's Richard Rodgers Centennial Celebration. This web site holds more information on related events , and on the exhibition showing through September 10, 2002.
Solo Flights Archive Double Fiesta 1 pianist Tomoko Mukaiyama; Piano Centerstage The Mason HamlinBB. Terry Riley, The Heaven Ladder Book 7 20 Feb sarah cahill A Century of http://www.composerscollab.org/projects/solo_flights/archivemain.html
Noe Valley Chamber Music (sarah cahill is a pianist and a music critic for the Express, and hostsa music show on KPFA (94.1 FM) every Friday from 10 am to noon.). http://www.nvcm.org/sutherland.htm
Extractions: It would be hard to find a single piece of music that has absorbed as many musicians' lives as Bach's "Goldberg" Variations. There's the case of Glenn Gould, recording the set in 1955 and then again in 1981. And Rosalyn Tureck, initiated into the variations as a teenager, calling them "an infinite work of art" which she continues to perform on harpsichord and piano at 85. After an Andras Schiff performance of them, he debated the "Goldbergs" with Gould until six in the morning. I knew a pianist who was fired from playing at a bar after he insisted on playing nothing but back-to-back "Goldbergs." Robin Sutherland, best known as the San Francisco Symphony's pianist, first performed the "Goldberg" Variations at the age of sixteen. He last played the complete set in San Francisco in 1983, so it was no surprise that his Sunday afternoon performance attracted a full house. The obstacle of Bay Bridge traffic caused me to miss the first several variations, which was especially irritating because Sutherland shaped the set so beautifully: I didn't just miss the beginning of a sequence, but the cornerstone of a carefully constructed edifice. Sutherland struck a perfect balance between revealing a preconceived whole and maintaining spontaneity. He brought Bach's interplay of virtuosity and introspection into focus.
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Common Sense: Opus415 #4 Schedule Carl STONE Works with sarah cahill, pianist Stone performs compositionscomposed and performed entirely on a Macintosh Powerbook computer. http://www.commonsense.org/opus4line.htm
CB0012 The performers sarah cahill is a pianist, writer, and producer who specializesin new American music and works from the American experimental tradition. http://www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0012.html
Extractions: Continents of City and Love and Tidal , written 20 years apart, are both arch-form pieces scored for two pianos, synthesizer, string quartet, and doublebass. They both feature expanding piano lines that intersect and compliment individually expanding textures provided by the strings and synthesizer. Continents cycles slowly through four harmonic areas via a sort of structural counterpoint, achieving a finely knit fabric of understated sensuality. Tidal combines strictly notated music with measured improvisation. Evaporated Pleasure is a fiery work for piano, four hands. Composed from an equal-tempered approximation of the harmonic and sub-harmonic series and multiple corrupted stochastic processes, it starts out almost hesitantly and builds to a wild, swirling barrage. The same duo (Cahill and Kubera) that performs it on this CD gave both its West Coast (San Francisco) and East Coast (New York) premieres in 2002. Michael Byron Journal of Experimental Aesthetics . He was the editor/publisher of Pieces , a series of books of music scores by influential contemporary American composers. Byron has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Canada Council for the Arts, and he has had his music recorded on the Cold Blue label (CB0002, CB0005, and CB0008) and the Neutral label.
CB0010 on A Can, the California EAR Unit, Ensemble Sirius, sarah cahill, Steven Schick BryanPezzone is a Los Angeles pianist who specializes in contemporary music and http://www.coldbluemusic.com/pages/CB0010.html
Extractions: These three works exist amid an undeniable esthetic spirit of the times—the embracing of pre-compositional principles and structural processes in the service of a highly personal artistic statement. However, John Luther Adams' recent work tends to transcend his compositional devices—it is simply potent, compelling music that is timeless in its sublimity. This is quietly expressive music in which process never intrudes on the music's "sounding," but churns away in the background, while the foreground shimmers with a simple yet great joy in the very making of sounds. It is a music that may be readily appreciated on both intellectual and sensual levels.
Kyle Gann: Stuff To Know About The superb West Coast pianist sarah cahill premiered Gann s Time Does Not Exist andPrivate Dances, Sara Phillips performed his Last Chance Sonata, and Gann http://www.kylegann.com/discog.html
Extractions: Kyle Gann: Concerts and Events Concerts and other upcoming events: Kyle Gann has written a series of radio shows on American music for Minnesota Public Radio, called The American Mavericks: you can find the web page here On May 5, 2003, Gann will be honored with the American Music Center's Letter of Distinction, along with Steve Reich, George Crumb, and Wayne Shorter. Discs, books, and publications: NOTE!!! Kyle Gann's CD "Custer's Ghost" is available on the Monroe Street label. Monroe Street's address is 666 Fifth Avenue, No. 232, NY NY 10103. Or click their web page here to read about it. Kyle Gann just won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for his article Minimal Music, Maximal Impact Gann's article "No Escape from Heaven: John Cage as Father Figure" is now published in The Cambridge Companion to John Cage , new from Cambridge University Press. The new Fourth Edition of H. Wiley Hitchcock's Music in the United States has just been published (Prentice Hall, 2000) with a final chapter - "New Currents Coalesce: Since the Mid-1980s" - by Kyle Gann. UPCOMING! An anthology of Gann's reviews, thinkpieces, and interviews from the
Kyle Gann's Resume Oneperson concert at Bard College pianist sarah cahill premiered my Time DoesNot Exist and Private Dances, Sara Phillips performed my Last Chance Sonata http://www.kylegann.com/resume.html
Etty Ben-Zaken And Eitan Steinberg (1998) Angel s Steps (8 ) for piano solo. Premiered May 99, Berkeley, CA,by pianist sarah cahill. 96, San Francisco, by pianist sarah cahill. http://www.benzaken-steinberg.com/compositions-h.html
Etty Ben-Zaken And Eitan Steinberg Musica Nova, Israel Contemporary Ensemble, the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players,the Seattle Chamber Players, Boston Musica Viva and pianist sarah cahill. http://www.benzaken-steinberg.com/eitanbio.html
CCM: Kiosk Please note change in performance time. 400pm Robert J. Werner RecitalHall pianist sarah cahill presents an evening of new music. http://ccm.kiosk.uc.edu/perform/default.asp
Instruments - Pianists Top Links cahill, sarah pianist specializing in new American music and works from the Americanexperimental tradition. Aleksander, Adam - Polish/Canadian Classical http://www.music-instruments-list.com/Top_Arts_Music_Instruments_Keyboard_Piano_
