The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present Mills Music Now 2011-2012
MUSIC BY ROSCOE MITCHELL
Saturday, March 31, 2012 8:00 pm
Performers include:
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Petr Kotik, conductor
Eclipse Quartet
William Winant, percussion
James Fei Alto Quartet
Program:
"Bells for New Orleans" solo tubular bells/orchestral bells
"Not Ye"t alto saxophone and piano
"9/9/99" string quartet
"Nonaah" alto saxophone quartet
"Nonaah" chamber orchestra
"Would You Wear My Eyes" (premiere performance) baritone and chamber orchestra
"Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City" baritone and chamber orchestra
Littlefield Concert Hall, Music Building
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
For more information visit:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
$15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students Free to Mills students, faculty, staff, and alumnae/alumni Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible
Free parking on campus
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The Mills College Music Department proudly presents a concert of music by its Distinguished Darius Milhaud Professor of Music Roscoe Mitchell on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 8 PM in the Jeannik Mequét Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College in Oakland. In addition to his path-breaking work as a saxophonist, improviser, and as founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roscoe Mitchell has also been writing concert music for his entire career. This will be the first concert devoted solely to his compositions on the West Coast.
The program includes chamber works for string quartet, alto saxophone quartet, saxophone and piano, and percussion solo; as well as three works for chamber orchestra, two featuring baritone Thomas Buckner, including the world premiere of “WOULD YOU WEAR MY EYES,” based on a poem by the American Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman. Distinguished performers on the concert also include Petr Kotik, conductor of the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble (New York), percussion virtuoso William Winant, the Eclipse String Quartet (Los Angeles), and the James Fei Alto Quartet.
The concert takes place in the recently restored Littlefield Concert Hall on the Mills College campus at 5000 MacArthur Blvd in Oakland. This venue is wheelchair accessible and free parking is available on campus. Tickets are $15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students and may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
For more information visit:
http://musicnow.mills.edu
Roscoe Mitchell, internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator, began his distinguished career in the spirited 1960s of Chicago, Illinois. His role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, his innovation as a solo woodwind performer, and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music for over four decades. A leader in the field of avant-garde jazz and contemporary music, Mr. Mitchell is a founding member of the world renowned Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Trio Space.
Mr. Mitchell is the recipient of many honors and awards including the following: The American Music Center Letter of Distinction - Art Ensemble of Chicago; The International Jazz Critics Poll, Down Beat Magazine (Composer "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition"); Best Jazz Group (Established) - Art Ensemble of Chicago, Record of the Year (Nonaah); Certificate of Appreciation, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Smithsonian Institution; Outstanding Service to Jazz Education Award, National Association of Jazz Educators; and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Image Award. He has received numerous composition and performance grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Arts Midwest Jazz Masters; the John Cage Award for Music, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.; a commission from the City of Munich for the Symposium on Improvised Music; the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique, Paris; ASCAP Plus Award; The Twenty Fifth Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Commission. In addition to his current teaching position at Mills College, he has also served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the California Institute of the Arts, the AACM School of Music, and the Creative Music Studio.
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The legacy of musical innovation at Mills College began during the 1930s and 1940s during the College’s legendary summer sessions when John Cage and Lou Harrison taught in the music and dance departments and Henry Cowell gave arguably the first classes in “world music.” Since then Mills has had a long history of support for experimental music and has established an international reputation for educating musical pioneers. The symbolic beginnings of the College’s open-minded aesthetics and educational philosophy are occurred at the moment when French composer and Mills professor Darius Milhaud encouraged jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck to “be himself.” Among the many other faculty who have furthered this approach at Mills are Pauline Oliveros, Robert Ashley, David Rosenboom, Terry Riley, David Behrman, Anthony Braxton, Jöelle Léandre, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith—and now, Roscoe Mitchell. Their teachings are reflected in an impressive body of Mills alumnae who continue to make their musical presence felt nationally and internationally. As journalist Derk Richardson has observed, “Mills musicians, professors, visiting faculty, and students have been at the forefront of contemporary music, dramatically and consistently expanding the frontiers of sound and theory.”
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