“He’s so generous and giving of his time to his students,” says Robair, whose large-ensemble performance for Braxton’s 60th birthday at Oakland’s now-closed 21 Grand introduced a new generation to Braxton’s music.
“He’d say, ‘We should make a record together,’ and he meant it,” Robair continues. “He realized it was a way for a student he had respect for to enter the world. He was so funny. He’d say it was going to introduce them to his enemies and his friends. That generosity informed the entire scene. He didn’t come here to stake out his claim and create a cult-like status. Anthony didn’t buy into that shit. He was trying to get people to do their own thing.”
Rather than offering Braxton a tenured position, Mills let Braxton get away. Promptly hired by Wesleyan University, he set up his Tri-Centric Foundation and fostered a new circle of young artists. Over the years his writing has grown increasingly ambitious as he’s created large scale operas and multimedia productions documented on the releases Trillium J and the seven-disc box Quintet (Tristano) 2014.
Braxton, who now lives in Connecticut, will be on hand in the spring performing as part of Other Minds 25. The Bay Area’s premiere festival devoted to new music presents him on April 5 in the Veterans Building’s Taube Atrium Theater in a duo with harpist Jacqueline Kerrod. The concert is part of a triple bill that includes pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson (a former student of Braxton’s at Wesleyan who was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship).
Charles Amirkhanian, the co-founder and artistic director of Other Minds, knows from first-hand experience that with Braxton you have to expect the unexpected.
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