Thanks to Barry Ahearn, who sent this in for posting on the National Poetry
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OTHER MlNDS FESTlVAL VII
BRlNGlNG THE WORLDS OF NEW MUSlC TO THE SAN FRANClSCO BAY AREA MARCH 8-10, 2001

Festival to feature music by Ezra Pound

December 20, 2000 (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Following on the success of its George
Antheil Ballet mecanique concerts in June 2000, Other Minds brings the
latest ideas and trends in new music with OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL VII. The
composer-based festival is a rare opportunity to hear works by great
musical innovators from around the world and the Bay Area. The 2001
festival program spans nearly a century of musical invention, highlighting
early roots of new music and presenting four World Premiere performances.
OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL VII public events include artist forums, and three
evenings of concerts at San Francisco's Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, March
8-10, 2001.
FRIDAY MARCH 9th at 8 PM: The festival will present selected musical works
by the American poet Ezra Pound, who based his compositions on the rhythmic
patterns, cadences and tonal inflections of the poetry of Dante, Sordello,
Villon, Cavalcanti, Catullus and Sappho. He completed two operas and close
to a dozen violin works. The performance celebrates the forthcoming
publication of Robert Hughes' performance edition of Pound's opera
Cavalcanti and introduction to Pound's music and technique.
FEATURED GUEST ARTIST: Violinist Nathan Rubin performs the world premiere
of five recently discovered movements to "Fiddle Music Suite No. 1" by Ezra
Pound. Rubin was concertmaster with the San Francisco Opera's Western Opera
Theater for the 1971 world stage premiere of the Pound/Antheil 1923 Le
Testament, and produced the Fantasy LP recording of that opera in 1972. He
performed the American premieres of Pound's violin works, "Al poco giorno,"
"Faidit," and "Frottola," and was concertmaster with The Arch Ensemble for
the historic 1983 world premiere of Pound's second opera, Cavalcanti, in
San Francisco. Robert Hughes, conductor of the above Le Testament and
Cavalcanti programs, returns to the stage this March to conduct excerpts
from Cavalcanti on this March 9th program. Other Minds will release these
Cavalcanti and violin works on audio CD, to be accompanied by selections
from Le Testament.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10th, 11 AM: An artist forum on the music of Ezra Pound at
the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library, Civic Center,
with the participation of Robert Hughes, Margaret Fisher, Nathan Rubin,
Michael Andre Bernstein and Other Minds Executive Director Charles
Amirkhanian.
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