Electronic music pioneer and UC Regents’ lecturer Earl Howard will perform on the saxophone with professor Anthony Davis on piano on April 17 at 8 p.m. in the Mandeville Recital Hall.
The program will consist of compositions involving structured improvisation. Guest performers will include George Lewis on trombone and Charles Curtis on the cello.
Howard is the recipient of numerous commissions, including the Fromm Foundation at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His method of combining orchestrated electronic sounds with live improvisation creates unique, densely layered compositions that have been performed at Merkin Hall, the Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, Roulette and Carnegie Recital Hall.
Davis is a pianist and composer who is active in a variety of media, including operatic, symphonic, choral, chamber, theater and improvised music. His award-winning work embodies an intercultural approach, drawing not only upon tradition and current black sources, but upon the Javanese gamelan, American minimalism and the European avant-garde.
Admission to the April 17 performance is $10 for the general public and $8 for students.
Earthday 2003 volunteer meetings scheduled
In an attempt to get 400 more volunteers for Earthday 2003, Earthworks will be holding three introductory volunteer meetings and two training meetings.
For those who wish to volunteer, the introductory meetings are not mandatory, though one training meeting must be attended.
Introductory meetings will be held March 20 at 6 p.m. at the Pacific Beach Library (4275 Cass St.), April 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mira Mesa Library (8405 New Salem St.), and April 10 at 7 p.m. at the Chula Vista Library (365 F St.).
Mandatory training meetings will be held April 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recital Hall at Balboa Park, and April 25 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the Santa Fe Room at Balboa Park.
Earthday events will be held April 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Volunteers can sign up at http://www.earthdayweb.org. Contact Bonnie Snyder at (858) 272-7370 or [email protected].
SDSC releases new version of popular software
The San Diego Supercomputer Center has released Version 2.0.0 of its Storage Resource Broker, which enables scientists to create, manage and collaborate with data collections located on heterogeneous resources distributed across a network.
The new version preserves existing capabilities of the earlier version for current users, while also providing a greater number of faster, more powerful services in an easier-to-use interface.
The software, user manual and release notes are available at http://www.npaci.edu/dice/srb/.
Research groups in a variety of fields are using or planning to use the SDSC SRB software to integrate, manage and access explosively growing data collections. The National Archives and Records Administration is using the software to develop persistent archives, NASA is using it to merge massive sets of satellite data, and other groups are employing the SRB to bring together diverse types of environmental data.
There are currently more than 200 registered users of the SDSC SRB at more than 50 sites. The software, user manual and release notes are available at http://www.npaci.edu/dice/srb/.
Donald Palma to conduct SONOR concert
UC Regents’ lecturer Donald Palma will conduct the SONOR concert on April 23 at 8 p.m. in the Mandeville Auditorium.
The resident new music ensemble will perform the “”ASKO Concerto”” by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Elliott Carter, “”Piece for Two Instrumental Units”” by Stephan Wolpe and late small ensemble works by Igor Stravinsky. The premiere of UCSD graduate student Adam Greene’s “”A Breath Between: A Double Concerto for Flute and Violin with Small Ensemble”” will conclude the program.
Palma, who conducted and founded the New York-based new music ensemble Speculum Musicae, is also a solo bassist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He is currently on the faculties of Yale University and the New England Conservatory. In 2000, he earned the ASCAP Chamber Music Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music.
