Presented by the Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music

Special Event

Presented by the Deep Listening Institute and the Mills College Music Department

Toyoji Tomita Memorial Concert
Toyoji's Song, 7:30pm
A tree planting ceremony with Andy Strain, Scot Gresham-Lancaster and the Didjeridu Ensemble directed by Stuart Dempster.
Traditional shakuhachi solo performed by Philip Gelb outside Lisser Hall.
Concert, 8:00pm
Tending the Fire: poetry reading by Wendy Burch with harp accompaniment by Marianne Tomita McDonald
Pauline Oliveros: The World Wide Tuning Meditation a Sonic Gesture of Peace, presented by Tom Bickley with the Cardew Choir and the audience.
The Ghost Dance Trio: Pauline Oliveros, accordion; Shoko Hikage-koto and Stuart Dempster, trombone
Pauline Oliveros: For Toyoji Expanded Instrument System and Roscoe Mitchell, multi-instruments

Concert Series
September | October | November

The Concert Hall is undergoing renovations in 2007–08. Concerts will be held in Lisser Hall and other campus locations during this time.

Tickets may be purchased the door or online at www.boxofficetickets.com. All Concert Series and Songlines Series events are free to Mills students, faculty, and staff. The Concert Line: 510.430.2296

The Concert Series is sponsored in part by a gift from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. The Darius Milhaud Concert is made possible in part by a generous endowment from the Mills College Class of 1945. The Mills Performing Group is made possible by a grant from elfenworks LLC, proudly supporting the musical community. The National Endowment for the Arts supports in part the concerts by Sergi Jorda, Keith Rowe, and Frederic Rzewski.

Friday, September 19, 2008, 8:00 pm
Darius Milhaud Concert
MILHAUD, RZEWSKI, AND CRAWFORD
Eclipse Quartet
Sara Parkins, violin; Sarah Thornblade, violin;
Johanna Hood, viola; Maggie Parkins, cello
Milhaud: String Quartets #1 and #18
Ruth Crawford: String Quartet
Rzewski: Whimwhams for String Quartet and Percussion
With William Winant, percussion; Steed Cowart, conductor
The Eclipse Quartet is a Los Angeles-based string quartet dedicated to the music of our time. The group is made up of four women, all passionate chamber musicians, who have strong backgrounds in new music, recording, and national and international performance.
Free
Art Museum

Sunday, September 21, 2008, 4:00 pm
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (Books I-VI), Op. 19
Virtuosic pianist Frederic Rzewski plays Books I-VI of Felix Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte, op 19. The eight volumes of Songs without Words were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's life. "What the music I love expresses to me, is not thought too indefinite to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite." -Felix Mendelssohn
$20 general, $10 seniors
Lisser Hall

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 8:00 pm
RZEWSKI PLAYS RZEWSKI
Regarded as one of the contemporary music world's most important and influential composers, virtuoso pianist/composer Frederic Rzewski performs a program of his compositions.
Cadenza (2003)
War Songs (2008)
Mayn Yingele (1988)
Four Pieces (1977)
$12 general, $6 seniors
Lisser Hall

Friday, October 24, 2008, 8:00 pm
RULE BRITANNIA!
Women's Antique Vocal Ensemble (WAVE)
Directed by Cindy Beitmen
A concert of English music composed during the reigns of Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, and William and Mary. From the Old Hall Manuscript of the late medieval era to the 1694 birthday ode for Queen Mary, sacred and secular compositions by Power, Plummer, Dunstable, Cornysh, Henry VIII, Taverner, Ferrabosco, Tallis, Byrd, Dowland, Morley, Gibbons, Farnaby, Philips, and Purcell will be performed. Guest artists include Katherine Heater, harpsichord; Shira Kammen, vielle, viol, and harp; Howard Kadis, lute; and Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, cornetto, recorder, and Baroque trumpet.
$12 general, $6 seniors
Art Museum

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Saturday, November 8, 2008, 8:00 pm
David Tudor Composer-in-Residence
KEITH ROWE
The legendary electroacoustic composer and improviser performing solo, and in collaboration with Mills students and faculty, presents Cornelius Cardew's The Tiger's Mind, an exploration of musical relationships based on a prose score.
$12 general, $6 seniors
Lisser Hall

Friday, November 21, 2008, 8:00 pm
Electroacoustic Improvisation
SERGI JORDA
An evening of ReacTable solos and duets featuring guest composer Sergi Jorda and Mills instrumentalists. The ReacTable is a multi-user electro-acoustic instrument with a tabletop interface developed under the direction of Dr. Jorda in Barcelona, Spain. Several simultaneous performers share control over the instrument by moving objects on the table surface, constructing different audio topologies using a kind of visual modular synthesis.
$12 general, $6 seniors
Mills Art Museum

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Songlines Series
All concerts in the Songlines Series are free of charge and held in the Ensemble Room.

Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:30pm
PAUL LYTTON and NATE WOOLEY: performance
Percussionist Lytton and trumpeter Wooley met in 2003, and despite their difference in age and usual milieu (Lytton with Evan Parker's trio, Wooley in solo), they consistently push their improvisations into focused, dissonant counterpoint.

Monday, November 10, 2008, 7:30 pm
KAFFE MATTHEWS: performance
Composer/violinist Matthews presents improvised digital soundscapes based on ideas she is exploring in her fall residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County.

Monday, November 24, 2008, 7:30 pm
SARAH CAHILL: performance
Pianist Sarah Cahill presents a preview of her new project, A Sweeter Music, for which she has commissioned eighteen composers including Frederic Rzewski, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, and Pauline Oliveros to write works envisioning peace.

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