MILLS PERFORMING GROUP TO BE FEATURED ON KALW 91.7 FM 

Spring Concert will air Sunday, June 25 at 10 am

Oakland, CA - The Mills College Performing Group’s spring concert will be broadcast on KALW 91.7 FM as part of their “Performances at 10” series. The broadcast will air Sunday, June 25 at 10 am. The concert took place in the Concert Hall on the Mills College campus on April 8, 2006. Highlights of the concert include Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark; John Cage’s Four6; and original compositions from Mills Music Department faculty Fred Frith and Steed Cowart.

The Mills Performing Group is an ensemble comprised of Mills faculty and graduate students in the MFA Performance and Literature program, and top Bay Area musicians and distinguished guest artists. The ensemble performs many different musical genres and techniques, from traditional solos, notated works, and chamber music to recent compositions, indeterminate scores, and free interpretation. As part of the Mills College Music Department, the Group was founded in 1963 by Luciano Berio, Darius Milhaud, and Morton Subotnick and is dedicated to presenting and performing works from diverse repertories.

KALW’s “Performances at 10” is a Sunday morning performance lecture series presented in conjunction with San Francisco Performances. Providing commercial-free news and music programming, KALW is licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District and funded by individual listeners and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently ranked among the top 75 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills is also recognized as one of the country’s 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The Princeton Review selected Mills as one of 11 colleges for first-time inclusion in its Best 361 Colleges in 2005. Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity.

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