OTHER MINDS 9 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
PALACE OF FINE ARTS THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 5­6­7­8, 2003

After attracting record audiences last year, Other Minds 9 annual festival
of new music by living composers returns to the 1000-seat Palace of Fine
Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street in San Francisco, with an expanded
four-concert program, Wednesday through Saturday, March 5-6-7-8, 2003.

Tickets for Other Minds 9 Festival concerts are:  $18 Regular; $26 Premium;
$15 Student/Senior (Regular seating).  A 4-concert Festival Pass for March
5­8 is available for:  $61 Regular; $88 Premium; $45 Student/Senior
(Regular seating). A 15% discount is offered for groups of ten or more
persons. 

Advance tickets are available from City Box Office (180 Redwood Street,
Suite 100, San Francisco, 
off Van Ness between Golden Gate & McAllister); by phone at (415) 392-4400
(M-F 9:30am­5pm, Sat. 10am­4pm); or online at cityboxoffice.com or
tickets.com  (per-ticket service charges applied). Concert tickets, if
available, will also be sold at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre Box Office
for walk-up sales beginning at 6 pm each evening. 
For further festival information, call the Other Minds hotline at 415/
273-1659 or visit www.otherminds.org

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2003 ‹ OPENING NIGHT TRIBUTE TO NED ROREM
Co-Presented by Other Minds and the San Francisco Opera Center

6:00pm Lobby and Box Office open ­ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
7:00pm Conversation ‹ Ned Rorem in Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian
8:00pm Concert ‹ Ned Rorem

Three Barcarolles for piano (1949) ‹ Sarah Cahill, piano
Evidence of Things Not Seen (1997, West Coast premiere)
San Francisco Opera Center Singers (Elizabeth Caballero, Karen Slack,
sopranos; Michelle Wrighte, mezzo-soprano; Harold Meers, tenor; Brad
Alexander, Hugh Russell, baritones; directed by Sheri Greenawald); 
Mark Morash and Monica Vanderveen, piano

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2003

6:00pm Lobby, Box Office and OMCafé open ­ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
7:00pm Artists Forum I ‹ Ge Gan-ru, Gloria Cheng , Evelyn Glennie, Amy X
Neuburg; Charles Amirkhanian, moderator
8:00pm Concert 

Ge Gan-ru: Four Studies for Peking Opera (2002-3, world premiere) 
Gloria Cheng, piano; Onyx String Quartet. Commissioned by the San Francisco
Arts Commission.
Amy X Neuburg: Six Little Stains ‹ solo voice with electronics
Evelyn Glennie:  Solo Percussion ‹ solo 5-octave marimba; solo snare drum
Nebojsa  Jovan Zivkovic: Pezzo Da Concerto No. 1 for solo snare drum
Fluctus (marimba)
Toshimitsu Tanaka: Two Movements for Marimba
Keiko Abe: Michi (marimba)
Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: Ilijas (marimba)
Asjekk Masson: Prim (snare drum)
Leigh Howard Stevens: Rhythmic Caprice (Marimba)

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2003

6:00pm Lobby, Box Office and OMCafé open ­ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
7:00pm Artists Forum II ‹ Jack Body, Sarah Cahill, Daniel Lentz, William
Parker; Charles Amirkhanian, moderator
8:00pm Concert

Daniel Lentz: Café Desire (2002, San Francisco premiere)
Linda Childs, Britt Quentin, vocals; Sarah Cahill, piano; Phoenix Bach
Choir; Other Minds Ensemble; 
Jeffery Kennedy, conductor
Jack Body: Sarajevo for piano (1996) featuring Sarah Cahill, piano
Body: Three Sentimental Songs for piano and percussion trio (2000-01, San
Francisco premiere)
The Other Minds Ensemble
William Parker and trio:  Spirit Catcher for four musicians and tape (2003,
world premiere)
William Parker, string bass, double reeds, dilruba, sentir (Moroccan bass);
Oluyemi Thomas, c melody saxophone, bass clarinet, double reeds; Doctor E.
Pelikan Chalto, recorders, whistles and flutes; Barbara Sandidge,
flugelhorn


SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2003

6:00pm Lobby, Box Office and OMCafé open ­ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
7:00pm Artists Forum III ‹ Stephen Scott, Stephan Micus, Stephen Hill;
Charles Amirkhanian, moderator
8:00pm Concert

Stephan Micus: On a Silent Wing (2003)
Micus performs on Armenian bass duduk and other traditional instruments
with pre-recorded sounds
Stephen Scott: Paisajes Audibles (Audible Landscapes) for soprano and bowed
piano (2002, U.S. premiere) 
Victoria Hansen, soprano; Colorado College Bowed Piano Ensemble, Stephen
Scott, director.
Commissioned  by Other Minds Festival as part of the national series of
works from Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA, which is made
possible by generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The
Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and the Target Foundation.



Advance tickets available through City Box Office at (415) 392-4400, or
www.tickets.com.

For further festival information, call the Other Minds hotline at 415/
273-1659 or visit www.otherminds.org



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