Mills Music Now

We were delighted to bring Darius Milhaud's choral music to life during the Milhaud Memorial Concert at Mills College a couple of weeks ago. Here is a photo that captures the full beauty of the concert hall, and shows the great turnout of concert goers!

Click the forward arrow to enjoy a couple of video clips:

Here is the opening of Milhaud's Cantate de la paix sung by Schola Cantorum SF, directed by Paul Flight.

Our audience was even treated to a little samba during the program, when Nalini Ghuman and Esther Archer teamed up for Milhaud's Brasiliera!

Maestro Paul Flight leads Schola Cantorum SF and friends in a program of stunning, rarely performed choral music by Milhaud and his contemporaries, with Mills College Darius Milhaud Professor of Music, Nalini Ghuman, pianist. The concert will feature choral and piano music by Darius Milhaud, Maurice Ravel, Lili Boulanger, Francis Poulenc, and Henk Badings. Register for Free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/schola-cantorum-sf-darius-milhaud-concert-mills-music-now-tickets-1292386716459?aff=oddtdtcreator

We were delighted to present Iyad Sughayer’s San Francisco Bay Area debut last Sunday, 23 March 2025, here at the Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College at Northeastern University!

Iyad captivated the audience with a program of music by Schubert, Sibelius, Ottaway, and Khachaturian.

Enjoy this excerpt from Iyad’s performance of the second of Schubert’s Drei Klavierstücke.

This Saturday at Mills 8pm: Sonic insanity with Thurston Moore and William Winant.

Friday: Conversations with Thurston Moore at 7pm.

Both events free: register at performingarts.mills.edu to reserve seats!

Nate Wooley at Mills tomorrow (Saturday) 8pm, Free.
With William Winant, Brett Carson, James Fei, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jordan Glenn, Hallie Smith and Gabby Fluke-Mogul.

Nate Wooley () is at Mills this week as the Vaux Composer in Residence.

Nate will be giving a lecture on Thursday night 7pm, and presenting a concert on Saturday 8pm of his solo piece Coyote, an improvised duo with , and a special, first-time west coast version of Mutual Aid Music featuring , , ._fei, .wav, , and .

Both events are free.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nate-wooley-mills-music-now-tickets-773339759037?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Zeena Parkins: The Harp at Mills.

February 10, 2024 | 8:00 PM
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall

A special concert featuring works by Zeena's Mills colleagues John Bischoff, Laetitia Sonami and James Fei; as well as Zeena's Berlin Bedroom and new piece Entrelacement.

The event is free, register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zeena-parkins-the-harp-at-mills-mills-music-now-tickets-773259248227?aff=oddtdtcreator

The last concert of our fall season (Wednesday, December 6th) will feature Normal, the duo of Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, playing manually and electronically manipulated home-made instruments.

The duo formed in 2002 when Tewari sparked a revitalization of Frith’s early 80s explorations in self-made “planks of wood with strings”. Approaching instrument making not as beautifully crafted art objects requiring virtuosic techniques, but rather as crude de-constructions patched together using the simplest of means and requiring only minimal exertion to produce sound, the duo turns the smallest spring into a potential orchestra, the bluntest needle into a sharp response. As with any music, what is really going on is intense listening, tricks of memory, and the joy of discovery.

The event is free with online registration:

Normal (Fred Frith & Sudhu Tewari) — Mills Music Now Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari celebrate the new recording "Moving Parts", released by fo'c's'le.

A very special concert on Saturday, December 2 with William Winant, Joan LaBarbara, Fred Frith & Theresa Wong. The group will perform John Cage's Four6 (dedicated to Pauline Olivero on her 60th birthday), originally performed at Cage's last concert in New York with Winant, LaBarbara, Leonard Stein and Cage. The group will also perform an open improvisation in the style of Merce Cunningham Events.

A discussion on Four6 between David Bernstein, Winant and LaBarbara will take place at 7pm on Friday December 1st.

The event is free with online registration:

William Winant, Joan LaBarbara, Fred Frith & Theresa Wong — Mills Music Now Join percussionist William Winant with incredible guests for this evening of improvisation.

Roco Córdova, baritone

Darius Milhaud Concert — Shauna Fallihee and Roco Córdova
A concert of songs by Darius Milhaud, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc performed by Shauna Fallihee, mezzo-soprano and Roco Córdova, baritone

Friday, October 6, 2023
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall- Music Building
Free Admission

This concert is free and open to the public. You may reserve a seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darius-milhaud-concert-shauna-fallihee-and-roco-cordova-mills-music-now-tickets-716191767857

Program:

Shauna Fallihee, mezzo-soprano
Miles Graber, piano

Darius Milhaud
Poems Juifs op.34

Darius Milhaud
3 Poems de Lucile de Chateaubriand op.10

Francis Poulenc
Banalites FP107

Roco Córdova, baritone
Brett Carson, piano

Darius Milhaud
Quatre Poèmes de Paul Claudel, Op. 26

Darius Milhaud
Trois Poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59

Claude Debussy
Beau soir, L. 6

Claude Debussy
Deux romances, L. 79 II. Le Cloches

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Mills College at Northeastern University
Music Building
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613

Shauna Fallihee, mezzo-soprano

Darius Milhaud Concert — Shauna Fallihee and Roco Córdova
A concert of songs by Darius Milhaud, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc performed by Shauna Fallihee, mezzo-soprano and Roco Córdova, baritone

Friday, October 6, 2023
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall- Music Building
Free Admission

This concert is free and open to the public. You may reserve a seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darius-milhaud-concert-shauna-fallihee-and-roco-cordova-mills-music-now-tickets-716191767857

Program:

Shauna Fallihee, mezzo-soprano
Miles Graber, piano

Darius Milhaud
Poems Juifs op.34

Darius Milhaud
3 Poems de Lucile de Chateaubriand op.10

Francis Poulenc
Banalites FP107

Roco Córdova, baritone
Brett Carson, piano

Darius Milhaud
Quatre Poèmes de Paul Claudel, Op. 26

Darius Milhaud
Trois Poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59

Claude Debussy
Beau soir, L. 6

Claude Debussy
Deux romances, L. 79 II. Le Cloches

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Mills College at Northeastern University
Music Building
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613

Darius Milhaud Concert — Shauna Fallihee and Roco Córdova

A concert of songs by Darius Milhaud, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc performed by Shauna Fallihee, soprano and Roco Córdova, baritone

Friday, October 6, 2023
8:00pm PDT
Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Concert Hall- Music Building
Free Admission

This concert is free and open to the public. You may reserve a seat here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darius-milhaud-concert-shauna-fallihee-and-roco-cordova-mills-music-now-tickets-716191767857

Program:

Shauna Fallihee, soprano
Miles Graber, piano

Darius Milhaud
Poems Juifs op.34

Darius Milhaud
3 Poems de Lucile de Chateaubriand op.10

Francis Poulenc
Banalites FP107

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Roco Córdova, baritone
Brett Carson, piano

Darius Milhaud
Quatre Poèmes de Paul Claudel, Op. 26

Darius Milhaud
Trois Poèmes de Jean Cocteau, Op. 59

Claude Debussy
Beau soir, L. 6

Claude Debussy
Deux romances, L. 79 II. Le Cloches

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Mills College at Northeastern University
Music Building
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613