Saturday, July 31, 2004

FALL CONCERT SERIES


Mills College 2004-2005
Concert Series and CCM Songlines Series
Presented by the Mills College Music Department and
the Center for Contemporary Music
Concert Series

Alternative Rock
ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Death Ambient
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Toychestra
Carla Bozulich
Friday, September 3, 8:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors

Concert Series
MUSIC BY WOMEN COMPOSERS
Mills Performing Group
Selected Songs by Maggi Payne, Fanny Mendolssohn Hensel,
and Clara Wieck Schumann
Bye, Bye Butterfly by Pauline Oliveros
Apparent Horizon by Maggi Payne
Dirge for two quarter-tone pianos by Mildred Couper
Six Japanese Gardens for Percussion and Electronics by Kaija Saariaho
Outline for Double Bass, Flute, and Percussion by Pauline Oliveros
Performers include Belle Bulwinkle, Sara Ganz, Chris Brown,
William Winant, Mark Dresser, and Stephen Adams
Friday, September 10, 8:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors

Concert Series
VIET SPRING FOLK ENSEMBLE
A Vietnamese multicultural performance troupe whose signature style
blends together Western and Vietnamese traditional instruments.
Van-Anh Vo, director
Sunday, September 26, 4:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors

CCM Songlines Series
GINO ROBAIR, CCM Composer-in-Residence
I, Norton, a multimedia work by the composer based on the writings of
Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
Monday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
FREE - Ensemble Room

CCM Songlines Series
SHEVADNAZE
Composers Boris Baltschun (electronics) + Serge Baghdassarians
(guitar, electronics) strategize as improvisers in this German duo.
Monday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
FREE - Ensemble Room

Concert Series
WERNER BDRTSCHI
Pianist
Robert Schumann: Studien und Konzertetden nach Paganini,
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata quasi una fantasia cis-moll op. 27/2,
Johannes Brahms: Paganini-Variationen op. 35, Ulrich Gasser:
Paganini-Variationen, Werner Bdrtschi: Bogensan fr Klavier und
Computer-Elektronik, Franz Liszt: Six Grandes Etudes de Paganini
Saturday, October 16, 8:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors
CCM Songlines Series
AMELIA CUNI
A lecture-demonstration on dhrupad singing, the oldest form of North
Indian classical music, by the highly acclaimed singer.
Monday, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
FREE - Ensemble Room

Concert Series
Mills College Music Department Artists-in-Residence
QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO
Jeremy Cohen, violin; Kayo Miki, violin; Emily Onderdonk, viola;
Joel Cohen, cello
Program includes United Quartet by Henry Cowell and a
New Work by Chris Brown
Saturday, October 23, 8:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors

Concert Series
Darius Milhaud Concert
LOVE AND DEATH
A 20th-Century Chamber Opera Double-Bill
Darius Milhaud: Les Malheur dOrphie
Gustav Holst: Savitri
Directed by Paul Flight and Nalini Ghuman Gwynne
Theatrical Designs by Richard Battle and Richard Olmstead
Performers include Sara Ganz, Rita Lilly, Sumner Thompson, Karen Clark,
the Quartet San Francisco, and members of the Mills Performing Group.
A rare opportunity to see productions of Milhauds dramatic 1920s
Parisian setting of the Orpheus myth, complete with a quartet of
animals and feminine furies; and Holsts setting of an episode from the
Mahabharata, featuring an ethereal womens chorus who begin the
performance with two of Holsts Hymns from the Rig Veda with harp.
Saturday, October 30, 8:00 p.m.
Free

Concert Series
David Tudor Composer-in-Residence
RON KUIVILA
The composer and sound artist from Wesleyan University presents Rock's
Role (After Ryoanji), an exhibition of sound works by Mills composers
that embrace overlap. Kuivila curates the collection using software
that follows John Cage's classification of the percussion and glissandi
he used in the pieces entitled Ryoanji (1983-1992), where "sand
provides an articulation of time within which rocks are freely
overlapped."
Saturday, November 6, 8:00 p.m.
$12 general, $6 seniors

CCM Songlines Series
JOHN SALMON
The musical connections between jazz great Dave Brubeck and French
master Darius Milhaud are featured in this lecture/recital entitled
"What Brubeck Got From Milhaud."
Monday, November 8, 7:30 p.m.
FREE - Ensemble Room

CCM Songlines Series
NEIL ROLNICK
A preview of the composers new sample-based piece, Plays Well With
Others, for the Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band.
Monday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.
FREE - Ensemble Room