Boulez at 100 with Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland
Other Minds presents a celebration of the centennial of Pierre Boulez, comprising an inventive concert of music for two pianos played by Gloria Cheng and Ralph van Raat at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 7:00 pm. The duo will perform selections from the composer’s rarely heard two-piano masterpieces Structures Books I and II, alongside music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Frank Zappa, and Magnus Lindberg, concluding with Igor Stravinsky’s elegant neo-classical masterwork Sonata for Two Pianos. This concert is part of Other Minds’s new PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.
Geoffrey Burleson playing piano
From Antheil to Zappa with Geoffrey Burleson
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland
Other Minds welcomes pianist Geoffrey Burleson to present his solo piano recital “From Antheil to Zappa” on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland. Burleson’s performance will feature forgotten mid-century masterpieces by American composers, including such rarities as the Piano Sonata No. 12, “Mirror Sonata,” (1982) by Vincent Persichetti, “Mirrorrorrim” (1931) by Gerald Strang, Music for Piano (1947) by Irving Fine, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1947) by Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Barber’s Four Excursions, Second Sonata, “The Airplane” (1921) by George Antheil, as well as works by Frank Zappa, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Herbie Nichols. This concert is part of Other Minds’s new PastForward series, presented in cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Music, Northeastern University and Mills Performing Arts.
