Jon Raskin’s world premiere of
The Hear and Now
at Other Minds 10
at San Francisco's
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
2004
As performed by
Rova Saxophone Quartet
Bruce Ackley, soprano saxophone
Steve Adams, alto saxophone
Larry Ochs, tenor saxophone
Jon Raskin, baritone saxophone
with
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa
Kyaw Kyaw Naing, pat waing
Jiebing Chen, erhu
Shoko Hikage, koto
Sang Won Park, kayagum
Jim Santi Owens, tabla tarang
Gino Robair, conductor
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
