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August 2010
Featured Composers
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936-     ), American
Don Dilworth (1939-    ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944-     ), Welsh
Alejandro Viñao (1951-    ), Argentinian
Elena Ruehr (1963-    ), American
John Aylward (1980-    ), American
Jakub Ciupinski (1981-    ), Polish

Featured Recordings
The American Cello - Concertos by Barber, Chen Yi, & Ranjbaran (Albany 648)  also  CD Review  &  sample audio files
Barbara Harbach: Vocal Music (MSR 1256)  also  CD Review  &  sample audio files
Isang Yun : Chamber Music Capriccio 67116  -  see current Featured Recording

Composer Portraits
Ástor Piazzolla  -  Interview with Charles Amirkhanian (KPFA's Speaking Of Music)
Karlheinz Stockhausen Interview with Lawrence Pollard
Arvo Pärt talks about “Für Elina”  -  see current Composer Portrait

Pytheas Sightings
Prophecy (1979)  -  Music by Leonard Rosenman  -  Film by John Frankenheimer
Solar Crisis (1990)  -  Music by Maurice Jarre  -  Film by Richard C. Sarafian
How Green Was My Valley (1941) – Music by Alfred Newman – Film by John Ford   -  see current Pytheas Sighting

Danses Pytheuses
Echoes (2004)  -  Music by Elena Ruehr  -  Choreography by Rebecca Rice Dance
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven (1993) - Music Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Ulysses Dove
Appalachian Spring (1944)  -  Music by Aaron Copland  -  Choreography by Martha Graham  -  see current Danses Pytheuses

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studie II (Elektronische Musik) (1954)
Mauricio Kagel: Acustica (1968-70)
Richard Maxfield: Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterfiles Encountered Over The Ocean) (1959)  -   see current Featured Sound Art

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
John Psathas: Etude (part 1 of “One Study One Summary”) (2005)
Philip Glass: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra, mvt 3 (2000)
Morton Feldman: The King of Denmark (1964)     -   see current Featured New Percussion Music

Week of August 2, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Javier Alvarez: Temazcal (1984)
Featured Video Performance    Elena Ruehr: Toussaint L'Ouverture's Aria (2003)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alban Berg: Lyric Suite (1925-26)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alfred Schnittke: Stille Musik (Silent Night) (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Aylward: Reciprocal Accord (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Portland Chamber Music Fesitval (Portland, Maine, USA)  -  Aug 12-21, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Aaron Copland Talks About Film Music (Roger Hall, Soundtrack)

Week of August 9, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Tan Dun: Zheng Concerto (1999)
Featured Video Performance    Karl Jenkins: Kyrie, from "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ernst Bacon: Gnaw Bone, Indiana (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Don Dilworth: The Sick Rose (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alex Shapiro: Deep (2004)
Featured Ensemble     Xanthos Ensemble (Watertown, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Experimental Music Catalogue
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Perception, Reception, and All That Popular Music (Sean Bellaviti, discouses.ca)


Week of August 16, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Edgard Varèse: Offrandes (1921)
Featured Video Performance    Alejandro Viñao: Khan Variations (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jean Sibelius: The Tempest (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dan Locklair: Toccata, from "In Mystery and Wonder" (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Bark: Reminiscence (2006)
Featured Ensemble    Atlas Ensemble (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item    La Biennale di Venezia Int'l Festival of Contemporary Music (Venice, Italy) - (Sept 23 - Oct 2, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Composer in Natural State of Creativity (Mike Giuliano, Towson Times)

Week of August 23, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Arvo Pärt: Für Elina (1976)
Featured Video Performance    Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) (1959)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andre Jolivet: Suite en Concert Pour Flute et Percussion (1965): Modere
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alejandro Viñao: Chant d'Ailleurs (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jakub Ciupinski: Strings and Cords (2005?)
Featured Ensemble    Kairos Quartet (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item    Flanders Music Centre (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Shah-Nameh's Rostam & Sohrab: Something to Sing About (Shahram Sadri, The Iranian)

Week of August 30, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Ferde Grofé: Sunrise, from Grand Canyon Suite (1931)  -  see current Weekly New Music Video No. 1
Featured Video Performance    John Cage: In a Landscape (1948)  -  see current Weekly New Music Video No. 2
Featured Pytheas Earful    Francis Poulenc: Les Chemins de l’Amour (1940) -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Pytheas Earful    Cindy McTee: Soundings (1995)  -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Pytheas Earful    David Morneau: Hesitation (2008)  -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Ensemble    Ruckas (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Festival ARS Electronica (Linz, Austria)/Sept 2 - 11, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Americana as Muse: Q&A with Michael Daugherty (MySpace.com Blogs)




July 2010
Featured Composers
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Andrew List (1956-     ), American
Jennifer Higdon (1962-     ), American
Karim Al-Zand (1970-     ), Canadian-American
Albert Schnelzer (1972-    ), Swedish
Kinan Azmeh (1976-    ), Syrian

Featured Recordings
Witold Lutosławski/Henri Dutilleux: Works for Cello and Orchestra (BIS 1777)  also  CD Review  &  sample audio files
Marilyn Shrude: Shadows and Dawning (Albany 526)  also  CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Joan Tower Interview (La Jolla Music Society)
Michael Daugherty - Interview (Pendulm New Music Series)

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993)  -  Music by Arvo Pärt  -  Film by Jean-Luc Godard
Rocket Ship X-M (1950)  -  Music by Ferde Grofé  -  Film by Kurt Neumann
Prophecy (1979)  -  Music by Leonard Rosenman  -  Film by John Frankenheimer

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Les noces (1917)  -  Music by Igor Stravinsky  -  Choreography by Bronislava Nijinska
Lux Underwater (2007) - Music by David Aks - Kujo's Lux Aeterna Dance Company

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Pierre Schaeffer: Etude Noire (1948)
Pierre Henry : Apocalypse de Jean (1968)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas (1994)

Week of July 5, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Delia Derbyshire: Sea - from 4 Inventions for Radio (1964)
Featured Video Performance    Karim Al-Zand: Capriccio (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Erik Satie: Descriptions automatiques (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ferde Grofé: Kentucky Derby Suite (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mason Bates: Rodeopteryx (1999)
Featured Ensemble    Musiqa (Houston, Texas, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    SEAMUS on-line (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Radiophonic Ladies (Jo Hutton, Sonic Arts Network)

Week of July 12, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Jacques Ibert: Flute Concerto (1934), 3rd mvt
Featured Video Performance    Kinan Azmeh: The Gilgamesh Project (2006), excerpt
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bernard Herrmann: The City of Brass, a melodram (1934)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andrew List: Soliloquoy, from Six Bagatelles for String Trio (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jennifer Higdon: String Poetic - Jagged Climb (mvt 1) (2006)
Featured Ensemble     Tm+ (Nanterre, France)
Featured Festival or Item    sfSound (San Fransisco, CA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Bernard Herrmann and Musical Topography (Joe Horowitz, The Unanswered Question)

Week of July 19, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2, op.67 (1944)
Featured Video Performance    Andrew List: Mystical Journey (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elmer Bernstein: Theme from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Reza Vali: Calligraphies: No. 2 – Allegro (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mirjam Tally: Call Love to Mind (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (University of Montreal, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)  -  Sept/Oct 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 (Margalit Fox, The New York Times)

Week of July 26, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Benjamin Lees: Fantasia (1954)
Featured Video Performance    Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Hope (Beauty) (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Arthur Honegger: Pastorale d'été (1920)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Karel Husa: Relentless Machine, from “3 Studies for Clarinet” (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Adrienne Albert: Doppler Effect (1998)
Featured Ensemble    red fish blue fish (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Portland Chamber Music Fesitval (Portland, Maine, USA)  -  Aug 12-21, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Saxophone Comes of Age (John-Edward Kelly)




June 2010
Featured Composers
 Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
George Crumb  (1929-     ), American
Michael Nyman  (1944-     ), British
Marilyn Shrude (1946-    ), American
Paul Moravec (1957-     ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962-    ), American
Daniel Sonenberg (1970-     ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974-     ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
Michael Horwood  -  Percussionique (Albany 1122)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Virgil Thomson - Heaven Is Music (Albany 1166)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Michel van der Aa on the opera "After Life"
Virgil Thomson - An Interview with Charles Amirkhanian
Bohuslav Martinů - On His Life and Music

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
Splendor in the Grass (1961)  -  Music by David Amram  -  Film by Elia Kazan
Macbeth (1948)  - Music by Jacques Ibert  - Film by Orson Welles
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993)  -  Music by Arvo Pärt  -  Film by Jean-Luc Godard

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Sinfonietta (1926/1980)  - Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Jiri Kylian
Four Reasons (2008)  -  Music by Milko Lazar  -  Choreography by Edward Clug
En Closures (2007)  -  Music by Andrew List  -  Choreography by Rebecca Rice

Week of June 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance    George Crumb: Solo Cello Sonata (1955)
Featured Video Performance    Paul Moravec: Mortal Flesh (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Olivier Messiaen: Eclairs sur l'au-delà Delà (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Michael Colgrass: The Schubert Birds (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Daniel Sonenberg: Whistlesparks, flute and harp (2006)
Featured Ensemble    Beijing New Music Ensemble (Beijing, China)
Featured Festival or Item    Sigma Alpha Iota - Contemporary American Composers
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Michael Nyman on Being an Accidental Filmmaker (Chris Broughton, Culture24)

Week of June 7, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Michael Nyman: Trysting Fields (1988)
Featured Video Performance    Dominick Argento: Winter (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 8 (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Heather Schmidt: Solus (1996)
Featured Ensemble     QNG: Quartet New Generation (Stuttgart, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item    ACA (American Composers Alliance) June Festival 2010: Sudden Music, June 15-19, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Summer King (Paul Moro, UmpBump.com)

Week of June 14, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Gerald Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata (1928/1953)
Featured Video Performance    Kenji Bunch: Suite for Viola and Piano (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alban Berg: Piano Sonata (1908)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Samuel Barber: Overture to "The School for Scandal" (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jonathan Elliott: Odd Preludes (2000)
Featured Ensemble    Fear No Music (Portland, Oregon, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Music (Buffalo, NY)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Bring Your Imagination: Musiqa Goes Beyond the Abstract (Nancy Wozny, CultureMap)

Week of June 21, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Luciano Berio: La vera storia (1981), prima parte
Featured Video Performance    John Cage: Sonata No. 5 for Prepared Piano (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Carl Nielsen: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59 (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jacques Hétu: Symphony No. 5 (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Edward Wright: Twr (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Just In Time Composers and Players (Boston, Massachusetts)
Featured Festival or Item    Bowdoin Summer Music Festival/ Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music (Brunswick, Maine, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Is the Free Dissemination of Music on the Web Ultimately Helpful or Harmful to the Economics
                                                         of New Music? (Richard Danielpour, NewMusicBox)

Week of June 28, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Ástor Piazzolla: Tango Etudes 1 & 3 (1987)
Featured Video Performance    Albert Schnelzer: Solitude (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Heitor Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 5 (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Delia Derbyshire: John Peel’s Voice (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kinan Azmeh: Dream (2007)
Featured Ensemble    SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Quebec Composer Jacques Hétu Dies (CBC News)




May 2010
Featured Composers
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Leroy Anderson  (1908-1975), American
Isang Yun  (1917-1995), Korean-German
Terry Riley (1935-     ), American
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-    ), Soviet-Russian
John Rutter  (1945-     ), British
Cindy McTee (1953-    ), American
Tracey Rush (1955-    ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971-     ), Italian

Featured Recordings
Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music, Volume 1 (Naxos)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Elliott Schwartz: Voyager - Five Orchestral Works (Albany Records)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Jennifer Higdon - Being Creative in Philadelphia (PBS)
Osvaldo Golijov – Boston Symphony Interview
Michel van der Aa on the opera "After Life"

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
El signo de la muerte (1939)  -  Music by Silvestre Revueltas  -  Film by Chano Urueta
Memorias de Lucía (2003)  -  Music by Leo Brouwer  -  Film by Carlos Barba

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2004) - Music by Amaury Groc - Black Moon Theatre Co. (Rene Migliaccio, Artistic Director)
Fancy Free (1944)  -  Music by Leonard Bernstein  -  Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Sinfonietta (1926/1980)  - Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Jiri Kylian

Week of May 3, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw (1947)
Featured Video Performance    Cindy McTee: Circuits (1990)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gustav Holst: Lyric Movement for Viola and Chamber Orch (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jennifer Higdon: An Exaltation of Larks (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Rival: Red Moon (2007)
Featured Ensemble    New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Fransico, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    ARS ELectronica (Linz, Austria)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    John Rutter: The Churches' Court Composer (Bendis & Westermeyer, Christian Century)

Week of May 10, 2010
Featured Video Performance    John Rutter: The Lord is My Shepherd (1978)
Featured Video Performance    People Inside Electronics - Inaugural Concert Oct 2009
Featured Pytheas Earful    Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Terry Riley: Two Piano Pieces (1959)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Sarah Horick: Deleted Scenes (2008), mvt VII
Featured Ensemble     New Music Works (Santa Cruz, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Festival of Contemporary Music (Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Finest Living Composer You've Never Heard Of (Wayne Lee Gay, Andante.com)

Week of May 17, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik (1936)
Featured Video Performance    Iva Bittová: Divna slecinka (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Edgard Varèse: Octandre (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Morton Feldman: For Stefan Wolpe (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Klangforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item    The Pacific Contemporary Music Center (California State University, Los Angeles, CA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Composer Isang Yun - A Conversation with Bruce Duffie (bruceduffie.com)

Week of May 24, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Isang Yun: Duo for Cello and Harp (1984)
Featured Video Performance    Leroy Anderson: Blue Tango (1951)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun (c. 1912)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Nikolai Kapustin: Impromptu, op. 66, no. 2 (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kile Smith: As Kingfishers Catch Fire (2000)
Featured Ensemble    ensemble chronophonie (Freiburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item    Highpoint Music '10 (Woodstock, New York , May 23-26, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Discovering the Music of Ptaszyńska (Jennifer Carnig, Chicago Chronicle)




April 2010
Featured Composers
Milton Babbitt  (1916-     ), American
Benjamin Britten  (1913-1976), English
Krystof Penderecki  (1933-     ), Polish
Kurt Weill  (1900-1983), German
George Tsontakis (1951-    ), American
Hans Zimmer (1957-     ), German
Christopher John Marshall (1956-    ), New Zealander
Cecilia McDowall (1951-    ), English
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969-     ), Russian

Featured Recordings
André Jolivet: Piano Music, Volumes 1 & 2 (Maguelone)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Golijov: La Pasión según San Marcos (St. Mark Passion) (2000) (DG)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Rhapsodic Musings — 21st Century Works For Solo Violin (Cedille Records)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Aaron Copland and the American Sound (San Franciscon Symphony & PBS)
Krzysztof Penderecki Documentary (Classical TV)
Jennifer Higdon - Being Creative in Philadelphia (PBS)

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
Mesmer (1994) – Music by Michael Nyman – Film by Roger Spottiswoode
The Silencers (1966)  -  Music by Elmer Bernstein  -  Film by Phil Karlson
Yumechiyo Nikki (1981) - Music by Tōru Takemitsu - Film by Yukio Fukamachi

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Smoke (Solo for Two) (1995)  -  Music by Arvo Pärt  -  Choreography by Mats Ek
6 Breaths (2010)  -  Music Ezio Bosso  -  Choreography by Rafael Bonachela
Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2004) - Music by Amaury Groc - Black Moon Theatre Co. (Rene Migliaccio, Artistic Director)

Week of April 5, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 4 (1970), part one
Featured Video Performance    Cecilia McDowall: First Rehearse (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins - Anger (1933)
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble Sospeso (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Störung Festival 5.0 (Barcelona, Spain) (April 21-24, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Settling Some Old Scores (Greg Sandow)

Week of April 12, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Penderecki: Quartet for Cl, Vln, Viola & Cello (1993)
Featured Video Performance    Scott Joplin: Treemonisha (1911) – Real Slow Drag
Featured Pytheas Earful    Miklos Rozsa: Ben Hur (1959) - Overture
Featured Ensemble     Gageego (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item    New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Sound of Philosophy (Dmitri Tymoczko, The Boston Review)

Week of April 19, 2010
Featured Video Performance    George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2 (2003)
Featured Video Performance    Stravinsky: The Rakes Progress (1951) - Anne's Aria
Featured Pytheas Earful    Christopher Marshall: Hikurangi Sunrise (2000)
Featured Ensemble    East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - The Frech Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Speaking of Music: Alex Ross’s 20th Century (Christopher Lydon, Radio Open Source)

Week of April 26, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Hans Zimmer: Sherlock Holmes (2009)- Discombobulate
Featured Video Performance    Zoltán Kodály: Háry János (1926) - Intermezzo
Featured Pytheas Earful    Cecilia McDowall: Laudate (2008) - Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble TIMF (Tongyeong, South Korea)
Featured Festival or Item    People Inside Electronics (PIE): Brand New and Classic Electroacoustic Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Behind the Mystique: Kurt Weill and 1920s Berlin (Jessica Balik, San Francisco Classical Voice)




March 2010
Featured Composers
Karlheinz Stockhausen  (1928-     ), German
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Hungarian
Howard Shore (1946-    ), Canadian
Bright Sheng (1955-     ), Chinese
Frank Ticheli (1958-    ), American
David Lang (1957-    ), American
Adrienne Albert (1941-    ), American
Judith Shatin (1949-    ), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960-    ), Portuguese

Featured Recordings
Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music (Dacapo 6.220518)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Selected Works (Phono Suecia 171)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
André Jolivet: Piano Music, Volumes 1 & 2 (Maguelone)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Frank Ticheli - Talks About His Life and Music (Artist House Music)
Hans Zimmer - Talks About His Music
Aaron Copland and the American Sound (San Franciscon Symphony & PBS)

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
A Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - New Film Score by Michael Nyman - Film by Dziga Vertov
Ransom (1996) - Rejected Music by Howard Shore - Film by Ron Howard
Mesmer (1994) – Music by Michael Nyman – Film by Roger Spottiswoode

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Polyphonia (2001) - Music by György Ligeti - Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Grey Area (2002) - Music by Niels Lanz - Choreography by David Dawson
Smoke (Solo for Two) (1995)  -  Music by Arvo Pärt  -  Choreography by Mats Ek

Week of March 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung (1968)
Featured Video Performance    Judith Shatin: Rotunda (2009), excerpt
Featured Pytheas Earful    György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock (1978)
Featured Ensemble    San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Carnegie Hall Performance Guide/Bartók String Quartets
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Bright Lights on a Powerful Woman (James L. Paulk, New Music Connoisseur)

Week of March 8, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Bright Sheng: 7 Tunes Heard in China - Little Cabbage & Seasons
Featured Video Performance    Dan Locklair: Symphony of Seasons: Autumn (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Richard Belcastro: Caution, Rip Current (2005)
Featured Ensemble     Post-Classical Ensemble (Washington, DC, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Norway Cultural Profile (Cultural Profiles Project)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Free Your Mind And Your Ears Will Follow (Charles Michener, New York Observer)

Week of March 15, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Zoltán Kodály: Esti Dal (Evening Song)
Featured Video Performance    Adrienne Albert: Musescapes - For My Mother (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Au Quai (2002)
Featured Ensemble    ensemble FA (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item    London Wireless Soundscape Project (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Sounding Off - VA Computer Music Ctr is Making Noise (Laura Parsons, UVA Magazine)

Week of March 22, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2007)
Featured Video Performance    Lou Harrison: Canticle No. 3 (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Heitor Villa-Lobos: Distribuçao de Flores (1937)
Featured Ensemble    Curious Chamber Players (Stockholm, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item    WHITE BOX (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Speaking Your Own Language - An Interview with Wojciech Kilar (Agnieszka Flakus, pljournal)

Week of March 29, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Iannis Xenakis: Claviers, from Pleiades (1978)
Featured Video Performance    Aaron Copland: Conversation by the Soda Fountain (1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Amy Scurria: Adaptations (2007)
Featured Ensemble    Luna Nova New Music Ensemble (Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    June in Buffalo 2010 - 35th Anniversary (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Performer Drawn to the Piano's Wild Side (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)




February 2010
Featured Composers
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Erich Wolfgang  Korngold  (1897-1957), Austrian
Elliott Carter  (1908-     ), American
John Harbison  (1938-     ), American
David Amram (1930-     ), American
Rudolf Růžička (1941-    ), Czech
Paul Witney (1973-    ), Australian
Da Jeong Choi (1973-    ), Korean
Stefan Weisman (1970-    ), American

Featured Recordings
Judith Lang Zaimont: Pure Colors (Albany 785)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Seóirse Bodley: A small white cloud drifts over Ireland (RTÉ LYRIC FM CD121)     also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music (Dacapo 6.220518)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Iannis Xenakis Talks with Harry Halbreich
Gwyneth Walker: In Her Own Words (Vermont Symphony Orchestra)

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)  -  Music by Virgil Thomson  -  Film by Pare Lorentz
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)  -  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold  -  Film by Michael Curtiz
A Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - New Film Score by Michael Nyman - Film by Dziga Vertov

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
Two (2009)  -  Music by Stefan Weisman  -  Choreography by Deborah Lohse
Viduity (excerpt) (2007) – Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Constantine Baecher

Week of February 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Da Jeong Choi: Top of the Mountain (2009) 1st mvt
Featured Video Performance    Tilo Medek: Abfahrt einer Dampflokomotive
Featured Pytheas Earful    Paweł Łukaszewski: String Quartet No. 3, part I (2004)
Featured Ensemble    Chamber Music Now! (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Sound and Music (United Kingdom)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Origins: How does An Opera Come About (Karren Alenier, Scene4 Magazine)

Week of February 8, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Elliott Carter: Oboe Concerto (1987)
Featured Video Performance    Béla Bartók: Piano Sonata (1926), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful    David Laganella: Under Ethereal (2007)
Featured Ensemble     Newspeak (New York, New York, USA)    also at  MySpace Music
Featured Festival or Item    CrossSound (Juneau, Alaska)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Electronic Music in Eastern Europe, Chapter 5 (Jorge Munnshe, amazings.com)

Week of February 15, 2010
Featured Video Performance    David Amram: Triple Concerto (1970), 3rd mvt
Featured Video Performance    Bruce Roter: Double Concerto for Cl, Cello and Orch (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Nino Rota: “Oh mio tesor” from La notte di un nevrastenico (1950)
Featured Ensemble    PRISM Quartet (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Iannis Xenakis @ The Drawing Center
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    John Harbison: The Pope's Composer (Jeremy Baskin, The Tech Online)

Week of February 22, 2010
Featured Video Performance    George Crumb: Black Angels (1970)
Featured Video Performance    Elliott Carter: Cello Sonata (1948), mvt 4
Featured Pytheas Earful    Paul Witney: Zero Through Nine (1997)
Featured Ensemble    Ne(x)tworks (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Muzsikás and Béla Bartók (Louis Proyect)


January 2010
Featured Composers
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Iannis Xenakis  (1922-     ), Greek
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932-     ), Polish
Arturo Márquez (1950-    ), Mexican
Svitlana Azarova (1976-    ), Ukrainian
Gwyneth Walker (1947-     ), American
Mark Gresham (1956-    ), American

Featured Recordings
Nino Rota: Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 (Chandos 10546)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files
Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music, Marc-Andre Hamelin (Hyperion 67433)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
Judith Lang Zaimont: Pure Colors (Albany 785)    also     CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Stephen Paulus talks with Alison Young (Minnesota Public Radio)
Seóirse Bodley Interviewed on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (Contemp. Music Centre Ireland)

Pytheas Sightings  -  Contemporary Music in Film
The Da Vinci Code (2006)  -  Music by Hans Zimmer  -  Film by Ron Howard
Portrait of a Lady (“The Kiss”) (1996)  -  Music by Wojciech Kilar  -  Film by Jane Campion
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)  -  Music by Virgil Thomson  -  Film by Pare Lorentz

Danses Pytheuses  -  Contemporary Music for Dance
The Traitor (1955)  -  Music by Gunther Schuller  -  Choreography by José Limón
Night Winds (2007)  -  Music by Charles Tomlinson Griffes  -  Choreography by Jody Sperling

Week of January 4, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto (1926)
Featured Video Performance    Sarah Horick: Looking Glass Changes (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bernard Herrmann: Concerto Macabre (1944/1972)
Featured Ensemble    Perspectives Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Tura New Music (Perth, Australia)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    To Sing Is to Fly (American Choral  Directors Association, North Central Division)

Week of January 11, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Iannis Xenakis: Synaphaï (1969)
Featured Video Performance    Arturo Márquez: Los Sueños/Dreams (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Earl Kim: Now & Then - Roundelay (1981)
Featured Ensemble     Quiet Music Ensemble (Cork, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item    American Classical Music Hall of Fame (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Arturo Márquez: The Folk Spirit in Orchestral Music (Luis Rumbaut, Latin Amer. Folk Institute)

Week of January 18, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Svitlana Azarova: Outvoice, Outstep and Outwalk (2004)
Featured Video Performance    Jean Langlais: 5 Pièces, no. 1 (1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alexandros Mouzas: Toy and Tango from Trisha Never Left Home (1999)
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble Phoenix Basel (Basil, Switzerland)
Featured Festival or Item    GRAME (Lyon, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Subtext for Deepening Confusions: Steve Reich at 70 (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)

Week of January 25, 2010
Featured Video Performance    Bright Sheng: The Stream Flows (1990)
Featured Video Performance    Gwyneth Walker: Don't Step On My Toes (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stefan Weisman: SuperSoft (2007)
Featured Ensemble    I(a contemporary music ensemble (Berea, Ohio, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (Istanbul, Turkey)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Unique And Exhilerating Symphonies of Danish Composer Carl Nielsen (The Horn)


December 2009
Featured Composers
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Harry Partch  (1901-1974), American
William Walton  (1902-1983), British
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Magnus Lindberg (1958-     ), Finnish
Bruce Roter (1962-    ), American
Sarah Horick (1984-     ), American
Edward Wright (1980-    ), English

Featured Recordings
Libby Larsen  -  Sym No. 4; Songs of Light & Love; Songs from Letters (Koch)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
John Psathas  -  Fragments (HRL Morrison Music Trust)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Witold Lutosławski in Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian
An Interview with Pianist Gwendolyn Mok: Ravel Revealed (Capital Public Radio/MSR Classics)
Ann Southam @ The Composer's Chair (Canadian Music Centre)

Pytheas Sightings
49th Parallel (1941)  -  Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams  - Film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
December (2009)  -  Music by Ástor Piazzolla  -  Film by Jamie Ward

Danses Pytheuses
Sea (2008) (from “Out of Place”)  -  Music by Iva Bittová  -  Choreography by Wendy Osserman
Trapeze (1924)  -  Music by Sergei Prokofiev  -  Choreography by Natalia Ryzhenko
Winter Fragments (2008)  -  Music by John Cage  -  Choreography by Deborah Graham

Week of December 1, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Ástor Piazzolla: Nightclub 1960 (1985)
Featured Video Performance    Harry Partch: Delusions of the Fury, part 2 (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Maija Hynninen: MOI! (2008)
Featured Ensemble    Pendulum New Music (Univ of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Orchestra 60x60 (@ VoxNovus)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    He's Dropped the Chains, But Not the Vision (Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe)

Week of December 7, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Aulis Sallinen: Dream Songs, op. 30 (1973), nos. 3 & 4
Featured Video Performance    Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 4 (1945), 2nd mvt
Featured Pytheas Earful    Edward Wright: Postcards from Home (2007)
Featured Ensemble     New London Chamber Choir (NLCC) (London, England)
Featured Festival or Item    Foundation for Modern Music (Houston, Texas, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    On Sewing Machines and Self-Expression (Lisa Bielawa, Andante.com)

Week of December 14, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (1931), 1st mvt
Featured Video Performance    Judith Zaimont: Borealis (from Sky Curtains) (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mark Gresham: Mortal Coils (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item    GR Music - New Art Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    William Walton: The Enfant Terrible of Oldham (Bayan Northcott, The Independent)

Week of December 21, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Danny Elfman: Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Featured Video Performance    Dmitri Tiomkin: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tracy Rush: Angels in the Snow (1998)
Featured Ensemble    Paragon Ensemble (Glasglow, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item    Spacial Music Collective (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Ástor Piazzolla: Chronology of a Revolution (Jorge Pessinis & Carlos Kuri, piazzolla.org)

Week of December 28, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Norman Dello Joio: Jubilant Song (1945)
Featured Video Performance    Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920-22)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (1944), Allegro marcato
Featured Ensemble    Land's End Chamber Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Outpost Performance Space (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Andante.com)


November 2009
Featured Composers
Witold Lutoslawski  (1913-1994), Polish
Samuel Barber  (1910-1981), American
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Nino Rota  (1911-1979), Italian
Richard Danielpour (1956-     ), American
Ann Southam (1937-    ), Canadian
Barbara Harbach (1950-     ), American
Zbyněk Matějů (1958-    ), Czech
J. Anthony Allen (1978-   ), American

Featured Recordings
Barbara Harbach  -  Music of Barbara Harbach, Vol. 4 – Chamber Music II (MSR)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
Dan Locklair  -  Orchestra Music (Naxos)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Igor Stravinsky  -  Igor Stravinsky: Composer/Janos Darvas, 2001
Elliott Carter in Conversation with Steven Stucky
Witold Lutosławski in Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian

Pytheas Sightings
Henry V (1944)  -  Music by William Walton  -  Film by Sir Laurence Olivier
Now, Voyager (1942)  -  Music by Max Steiner  -  Film by Irving Rapper

Danses Pytheuses
Adrift in Softness (2007)  -  Music by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto   -  Choreography by Patrick Delcroix
Ibbur, or a Prague Mystery (2005)  -  Music by Zbyněk Matějů  -  Choreography by Petr Zuska
Sea (2008) (from “Out of Place”)  -  Music by Iva Bittová  -  Choreography by Wendy Osserman

Week of November 2, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Witold Lutoslawski: Chain 1 (1983)
Featured Video Performance    Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord (1909-1915), mvt 4 - "Thoreau"
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dmitri Tymoczko: Fools and Angels (2004)
Featured Ensemble    Fifth Tier New Music Ensemble (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    American Composers Alliance (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Gettin Jiggy With Stravinsky (The Wake)

Week of November 9, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto (1940), mvt 3
Featured Video Performance    Ann Southam: Rivers No. 8 (1979-81)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mason Bates: Seismology (2008)
Featured Ensemble     Elinor Frey, cellist (Montreal, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Music Academy Online
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Musical Ode to Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson & Josh Gibson ... (Martin Steinberg, Associated Pr)

Week of November 16, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 (1930) - Prelùdio
Featured Video Performance    Edgard Varèse: Tuning Up, orchestra (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Libby Larsen: Deep Summer Music (1982)
Featured Ensemble    ensemble recherche (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)    also     here
Featured Festival or Item    MATA Festival (Brooklyn, NY)  -  April 19-22, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Brain Disease Shaped Boléro (John Whitfield, Nature)

Week of November 23, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Richard Danielpour: Margaret Garner (2005)
Featured Video Performance    Karen Amrhein: Princes Paliné (2007/2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ann Southam: In Retrospect, piano (2004)
Featured Ensemble    Present Music (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Masterpiece's of 20th-Century Tape Music (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Samuel Barber: American's Composer (Paul Varnell, Chicago Free Press/Independent Gay Forum)



October 2009
Featured Composers
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
Gyorgy Ligeti  (1923-2006), Hungarian
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
John Tavener  (1944-     ), British
Stephen Paulus (1949-     ), American
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943-    ), Polish-American
Alex Shapiro (1962-    ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954-     ), Chinese
David Sartor (1956-    ), American

Featured Recordings
Bright Sheng  -  The Phoenix, and other works (Naxos)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
Ann Southam  -  Simple Lines of Enquiry (2008) (Centredisces)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Christopher Rouse  -  Interview with Soli Deo Gloria CEO Chandler Branch
György Ligeti  -  Interview with John Tusa/BBC Radio 3
Igor Stravinsky  -  Igor Stravinsky: Composer/Janos Darvas, 2001

Pytheas Sightings
Hawaii (1966)  -  Music by Elmer Bernstein  -  Film by George Roy Hill
8 ½ (1963) - Music by Nino Rota  -  Film by Federico Fellini

Danses Pytheuses
Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)  -  Music by Igor Stravinsky  -  Choreography by Maurice Béjart (1959)
Echoes (2008)  -  Music by Ezio Bosso  -  Choreography by Thang Dao
Adrift in Softness (2007)  -  Music by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto   -  Choreography by Patrick Delcroix

Week of October January 5, 2009
Featured Video Performance    György Ligeti: Artikulation (1958)
Featured Video Performance    John Tavener: Ypakoë (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Muczynski: Quintet for Winds (1985) - Allegro risoluto
Featured Ensemble    OrchestrUtopica (Portugal)
Featured Festival or Item    Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Intrepid Journeys Lead to Ambitious Works (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times)

Week of October 12, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Ge Gan-ru: Fall of Baghdad (String Qt No.5) (2005)
Featured Video Performance    Alberto Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2 (1950)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Sarah Horick: Equipoise (2006)
Featured Ensemble     Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item    Swiss Music Edition (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past? (Greg Sandow, Andante.com)

Week of October 19, 2009
Featured Video Performance    Stephen Paulus: Poemas de Amor (2006)
Featured Video Performance    Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, mvt 3, The Alcotts (1916-17)
Featured Ensemble    Gageego! (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item    Eletronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) (Kansas City, Kansas)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Music of Conviction (James Loader, TimeEurope)

Week of October 26, 2009
Featured Video Performance    John Tavener: Svyati (1995)
Featured Video Performance    David Sartor: Reveries (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful    David Morneau: Triage Part 1, Opening (2005)
Featured Ensemble    SYBARITE5 (New York, New York)
Featured Festival or Item    Canadian Music Centre's Audio Gallery
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Marta Ptaszyńska - Portrait in Music (Zbigniew Granat, Polish Daily News)



September 2009
Featured Composers
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
William Schuman  (1910-1992), American
John Psathas (1966-     ), New Zealander
Michael Daugherty (1954-     ), American
Robert Rival (1975-    ), Canadian
Tom Flaherty (1950-    ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965-     ), German

Featured Recordings
Benjamin Lees: String Quartet Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (Naxos)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
Stephen Paulus : To Be Certain Of The Dawn (2005) (BIS)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (1963-67) (Mode Records)    also    CD Review  &  sample audio files

Composer Portraits
Tan Dun  -  From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media)
Michael Horwood  -  The Composer's Chair (Canadian Music Centre)
Christopher Rouse  -  Interview with Soli Deo Gloria CEO Chandler Branch

Pytheas Sightings
The Heiress (1949)  -  Music by Aaron Copland  -  Film by William Wyler
Ben Hur (1959)  -  Music by Miklos Rozsa  -  Film by William Wyler
King Lear (1971)  -  Music by Dmitri Shostakovich  -  Film by Grigori Kozintsev

Danses Pytheuses
Danses Poètiques  -  Music by Erik Satie  -  Choreography by Erik Satie Dance Project
Breathless (2009)  -  Music by Arvo Pärt  -  Choreography by Joseph Cipolla
Le Sacre du Printemps (1913)  -  Music by Igor Stravinsky  -  Choreography by Maurice Béjart (1959)

Week of September 1, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto (1954), mvt 1
Featured YouTube Performance    John Psathas: Omnifenix (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful    William Schuman: Symphony for Strings (# 5) (1943), mvt 1
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble KORE (Montréal, Quebec, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (Victoria, Australia ... and worldwide)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Remembering Arthur Berger (Grant Chu Covell, La Folia)

Week of September 7, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Tom Flaherty: Trio for Cello & Digital Processor (1991)
Featured YouTube Performance    Javier Alvarez: Metro Chabacano (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Georges Auric: Notre Dame de Paris, film score (1956)
Featured Ensemble     The Robin Cox Ensemble (Santa Barbara, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    souNZ - Centre for New Zealand Music (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Ralph Vaughan Williams and "49th Parallel" (Rolf Jordan, Powill-Pressburger)

Week of September 14, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Erik Satie: Nocturne No. 2 (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance    Michael Daugherty: Dead Elvis (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Krzysztof Penderecki: Sinfonietta No. 2 (1994), mvt II
Featured Ensemble    Magnetic Band (Young Musician's Society) (Singapore)
Featured Festival or Item    sound festival 2009 [October 28 through November 22] (Banchory,  Scotland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Joyful and Joyless for the Masses: Auric’s Music for La Rue sans joie (1938) (Colin Roust)

Week of September 21, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Henryk Górecki: Sym No. 3, "Sorrowful Songs" (1976)
Featured YouTube Performance    William Schuman: New England Tryptych (1956)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Rival: March from Six Pieces for Piano (2007)
Featured Ensemble    Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    New Consonant Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)

Week of September 28, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (1920)
Featured YouTube Performance    Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Flute and Strings (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Christopher Rouse: Ricordanza (1995)
Featured Ensemble    New Music Collective (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Percussive Arts Society (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Open Universe (by Jan Vriend)



August 2009
Featured Composers
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
Luciano Berio  (1925-     ), Italian
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
John Corigliano  (1938-     ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931-    ), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968-    ), Polish
Michel van der Aa (1970-    ), Netherlands
David Morneau (1975-    ), American
Elaine Fine (1959-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Mirjam Tally  -  "Mirjam Tally" (ARM Music)
George Tsontakis  -  Violin Concerto No. 2; Clair de Lune; The Past, the Passion (Koch)
Benjamin Lees: String Quartet Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (Naxos)

Composer Portraits
David Lang  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Behzad Ranjbaran  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)

Pytheas Sightings
L’Idee/The Idea (1934)  -  Music by Arthur Honegger  -  Film by Berthold Bartosch
Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared) (2003)  -  Music by Ezio Bosso  -  Film by Gabriele Salvatores
The Heiress (1949)  -  Music by Aaron Copland  -  Film by William Wyler

Danses Pytheuses
Gnossienne  -  Music by Erik Satie  -  Choreography by Chris Bannerman
Shadowed [2007]  -  Music by Philip Glass  -  Choreography by Rebecca Dean

Week of August 3, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Michel van der Aa: Memo (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance    Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Paweł Łukaszewski: Hommage á Edith Stein (2002), part I
Featured Ensemble    New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Fransico, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    We Are All Mozart  (Dennis Báthory-Kitsz)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Digitality of the Opera - Two Cases (Jelena Novak, e-volucija)

Week of August 10, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Manuel de Falla: Fantasía Bética (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance    Lee Actor: Horn Concerto (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Rutter: Agnus Dei from Requiem (1985)
Featured Ensemble     MAVerick Ensemble (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    American Classical Music Hall of Fame (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Make Your Own Rules: Notes on Composition from John Corigliano (NewMusicBox)

Week of August 17, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    John Corigliano: They Are Always With Me (1991)
Featured YouTube Performance    Carlos Chávez: Sinfonía India (1935-36)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Luciano Berio: Glosse (1997)
Featured Ensemble    Second Instrumental Unit (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    International Alliance for Women in Music (Delaware, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Trilogy With No Prequels (Andy Goldsbrough, Film Score Monthly)

Week of August 24, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Luciano Berio: Sequenza V for trombone (1966)
Featured YouTube Performance    Iva Bittova: Ne nehledej (Stop Searching)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Oyvind Torvund: Krull Quest (2004)
Featured Ensemble    Augenmusik (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Springtime in Paris: Les Six (Minnesota Public Radio)



July 2009
Featured Composers
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Dan Locklair (1949-     ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966-     ), American
Jesse Ayers (1951-    ), American
Mirjam Tally (1976-     ), Estonian
John Rea (1944-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
Henryk Górecki  -  Requiem Für Eine Polka; etc. (Nonesuch Records)
Meira Warshauer  -  Like Streams in the Desert (Albany Records)
Mirjam Tally  -  "Mirjam Tally" (ARM Music)

Composer Portraits
Judith Lang Zaimont - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Gary Kulesha - NACOcast (National Arts Centre of Canada in Ontario), w/Chris Millard

Pytheas Sightings
The Sea Hawk (1940)  -  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold  -  Film by Michael Curtiz
Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964)  -  Music by Tōru Takemitsu  -  Film by Hiroshi Teshigahara
L’Idee/The Idea (1934)  -  Music by Arthur Honegger  -  Film by Berthold Bartosch

Danses Pytheuses
Relief (2006)  -  Music by David Morneau  -  Choreography by Erin Tisdale
We Unfold (2009)  -  Music by Ezio Bosso  -  Choreography by Rafael Bonachela

Week of July 6, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Act 3, Sc 2 & 3 (1914-22)
Featured YouTube Performance    John Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprice (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Luciano Berio: Sequenza III for soprano (1966)
Featured Ensemble    Esprit Orchestra (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    New Music Connects (Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com) 

Week of July 13, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Alfred Schnittke: Gogol Suite (1978/80)
Featured YouTube Performance    Meira Warshauer: Like Streams in the Desert (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dorothy Hindman: Needlepoint (2004)
Featured Ensemble     Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item    Atlantic Music Festival 2009 (Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Kyle Gann: Declining Literacy 1  and  Kyle Gann: Declining Literacy 2

Week of July 20, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter (1950)
Featured YouTube Performance    Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore (1907)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gary Kulesha: Symphony No. 3 (2007)
Featured Ensemble    Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Spatial Music Collective (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    In Search of the Next Great American Opera (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)

Week of July 27, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Richard Danielpour: Souvenirs (2008), 3rd mvt
Featured YouTube Performance    Jesse Ayers: Waldstein Express (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Judith Lang Zaimont: The Joy of Dance (1974)
Featured Ensemble    Hartford Sound Alliance (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Le Poisson Rouge (New York City, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    "Do Not Take Up Music Unless..." A Composer's Musings (Dan Locklair)



June 2009
Featured Composers
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967-    ), New Zealand-Canadian
Robert Wendel (1951-     ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977-     ), Finnish
Dean Rosenthal (1974-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Leroy Anderson  -  Orchestral Music, Volume 4 (Naxos)
Peter Schickele  -  Chamber Music (Centaur Records)
Henryk Górecki  -  Requiem Für Eine Polka; etc. (Nonesuch Records)

Composer Portraits
David Amram  -  Interview @ New York Views
Paul Moravec  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Steve Reich  -  From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media)

Pytheas Sightings
Ich dzień powszedni (1963)  -  Music by Tadeusz Baird  - Film by Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Pull My Daisy (1959)  -  Music by David Amram  -  Film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie
The Sea Hawk (1940)  -  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold  -  Film by Michael Curtiz

Danses Pytheuses
Dance of the Elements: Water (2002)  -  Music by Maurice Ravel  -  Choreography by Jody Sperling
Love Lies Waiting (2003)  -  Music by Mark Fitchett  -  Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
The Miraculous Mandarin (1919)  -  Music by Béla Bartók  -  Choreography by Lucinda Childs

Week of June 1, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, mvt. 4 (pt 1) (1937)
Featured YouTube Performance    Arvo Pärt: Pari Intervallo (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Juliet Kiri Palmer: W is for (1999)
Featured Ensemble    Décadanse (Lunel, France)
Featured Festival or Item    Community Music Works (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Fight for Shostakovich (Norman Lebrecht, La Scene Musicale)

Week of June 8, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (pt 1) (1996)
Featured YouTube Performance    Béla Bartók: Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, mvt 3 (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dean Rosenthal: Songs from the Japanese (2000)
Featured Ensemble     Ex Novo Ensemble (Venice, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item    Zu Casa ~ An Online Laboratory
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Turning Circles and Squares Into Noise (Adam Shatz, The New York Times)

Week of June 15, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Tōru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992)
Featured YouTube Performance    Bohuslav Martinů: Madrigal No. 2, Violin & Viola (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning, Paragraph 1 (1968-70)
Featured Ensemble    NOISE (San Diego, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    soundON Festival of Modern Music (La Jolla, California – June 18-20, 2009)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    2001: A Space Odyssey - Alex North's Unused Soundtracks (mfiles)  see videos  1  2  3  4

Week of June 22, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Michael Daugherty: Ladder to the Moon, mvt I (2006)
Featured YouTube Performance    Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7, 3rd mvt (1939/1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful    George Crumb: Five Pieces for Piano (1962)
Featured Ensemble    ensemble]h[iatus (Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, France)
Featured Festival or Item    Happy Nordic Music Days (Oslo, Norway – Aug 19-22, 2009)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Her WWII Love Letter Inspires a Cantata (Channing Gray, The Providence Journal)

Week of June 29, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Nikolai Kapustin: Toccatina op.40, no. 3 (1984)
Featured YouTube Performance    Benjamín Gutiérrez: Pavana for Strings (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Maija Hynninen: Turnings, flute (2008)
Featured Ensemble    NYOS Futures (National Youth Orchestras of Scotland)
Featured Festival or Item    The Avant Garde Project - Online Audio Resource
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Piano Method by Claude Debussy (Karstein Djupdal)



May 2009
Featured Composers
John Cage  (1912-1992), American
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Steve Reich  (1936-     ), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955-      ), Iranian
Barry Truax (1947-     ), Canadian
Robert Bradshaw (1970-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Sonic Encounters - The New Piano/Margaret Leng Tan, piano (Mode Records)
Morton Feldman  -  Rothko Chapel & Why Patterns? (New Albion Records)

Composer Portraits
A Conversation with George Crumb (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Terry Riley  -  The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
David Amram  -  Interview @ New York Views

Pytheas Sightings
Lieutenant Kijé (1933)  -  Music by Sergei Prokofiev  -  Film by Aleksandr Fajntsimmer
Commissar (1967)  -  Music by Alfred Schnittke  -  Film by Aleksandr Askoldov

Danses Pytheuses
La Muerte de Narciso (The Death of Narcissus) - Music by Luciano Berio (Visage, 1961) - Choreography by [Elsy Contreras]
Variations V (1965)  -  Music by John Cage  -  Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Dance of the Elements: Water (2002)  -  Music by Maurice Ravel  -  Choreography by Jody Sperling

Week of May 4, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, Part 3 (1974-76)
Featured YouTube Performance    Albert Roussel: Joueurs de flûte, Pt.1-3 (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Seppo Pohjola: String Quartet No. 3 (2000)
Featured Ensemble    Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item    30th Annual New Music and Art Festival (MidAmerican Ctr for Contemp Music, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Composers Mining the Music of Their Youth (Anthony Tommasini, NY Times)

Week of May 11, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    John Cage: Third Construction (1941)
Featured YouTube Performance    Barry Truax: Soundscape Vancouver (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Oscar Carmona: Le Jeu Suivant (2007)
Featured Ensemble     Libra Ensemble (Melbourne, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item    Sounds Underground (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Far From Music Capitals, Ohio Conserv. Fosters Contemp. Sounds (V. Schweitzer, NYTimes)

Week of May 18, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Franz Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Featured YouTube Performance    Robert Bradshaw: Concerto for Trumpet, mvt 3 (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No. 3 (1938)  -  no longer available
Featured Ensemble    Vox21 (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item    June in Buffalo 2009 (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey Play New Music (TED)

Week of May 25, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, mvt 2 (1917)
Featured YouTube Performance    Behzad Ranjbaran: Ballade for Solo Contrabasse (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elaine Fine: Serenade for Oboe and Strings (2007)
Featured Ensemble    SPANK Music Ensemble (Colorado/Wyoming, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Contemporary Music Festival (Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Problem of Pitch - Seeking a Lasting Repertoire (Samuel Solomon, NewMusicBox)



April 2009
Featured Composers
George Gershwin  (1898-1937), American
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Bernard Herrmann  (1911-1975), American
Shulamit Ran (1949-     ), Israeli-American
Johannes Fritsch (1941-     ), German
Libby Larsen (1950-     ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957-     ), American
Robert Gans (1952-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Chen Yi  -  Momentum (BIS)
Arvo Pärt  -  Alina (ECM)

Composer Portraits
Alex Shapiro  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Elmer Bernstein  -  The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
A Conversation with George Crumb (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

Pytheas Sightings
Der Brandstifter (The Arsonist) (2003)  -  Music by Arnold Schoenberg  -  Film by Ütz Matthias Stocklöw
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)  -  Music by Bernard Herrmann  -  Film by Nathan H. Juran
                                                                                                                                                
Danses Pytheuses
Trisha Never Left Home (1999)  -  Music by Alexandros Mouzas  -  Choreography by Konstantin Mihos
Rodeo, Scene 1, Pt. 1 (1942)  -  Music by Aaron Copland  -  Choreography by Agnes de Mille
La Muerte de Narciso (The Death of Narcissus) - Music by Luciano Berio (Visage, 1961) - Choreography by [Elsy Contreras]

Week of April 6, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Zoltán Kodály: Sonata for Cello, op. 8, mvt. 3 (1915)
Featured YouTube Performance    Shulamit Ran: Sonatina for 2 Flutes, mvt. 2 (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Albert Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage, op. 35, no. 2 (1927)
Featured Ensemble    Logos Ensemble (Latina, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item    New Music Symposium (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music (Nicole V. Gagne, NewMusicBox)

Week of April 13, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Silvestre Revueltas: String Qt No. 4, "Música de Feria", mvt 1 (1932)
Featured YouTube Performance    George Crumb: Vox Balaenae, Part I (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Gans: Blue Ballet, mvt IV (2004)
Featured Ensemble    IU New Music Ensemble (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
Featured Festival or Item    SOUNZ/Centre for  New Zealand Music (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Composer's Art (James Fry, Musical Composition Resource)

Week of April 20, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Libby Larsen: Cowboy Songs (1979)
Featured YouTube Performance    Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, part I (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Amy Scurria: La Loba (2008)
Featured Ensemble    Quatuor Hêlios (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item    Pendulum New Music (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Composer's Century (Philip Glass, Andante.com)

Week of April 27, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Aaron Jay Kernis: Lament and Prayer, Part I (1996)
Featured YouTube Performance    Greg Bartholomew: The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan) (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Psathas: Zahara, Part I (2005)
Featured Ensemble    Ruckas (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Music Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Aulis Sallinen, Strong and Simple (Martin Anderson, Finnish Music Quarterly)



March 2009
Featured Composers
Arvo Pärt  (1935-     ), Estonian
Olivier Messiaen  (1908-1992), French
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Leo Brouwer (1939-     ), Cuban
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Michael Horwood (1947-     ), Canadian-American
Ken Ueno (1970-     ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959-     ), American
Alexandros Mouzas  (1962-     ), Greek

Featured Recordings
Pawel Lukaszewski  -  Choral Music (Hyperion Records)
Elliott Schwartz  -  Hall of Mirrors; Crystal; Kaleidoscope; Rain Forest with Bird (Innova Recordings)
Leo Brouwer  -  Guitar Music, Volume 1 (Naxos)

Composer Portraits
Libby Larsen  -  Composer Portrait @ Kalvos and Damian
Hans Zimmer  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Alex Shapiro  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)

Pytheas Sightings
On the Waterfront (1956)  -  Music by Leonard Bernstein  -  Film by Elia Kazan
The Red Violin (1998)  -  Music by John Corigliano  -  Film by François Girard
Les Yeux sans visage (1960)  -  Music by Maurice Jarre  -  Film by Georges Franju

Danses Pytheuses
Wet Woman (1995)  -   Music by Fläskkvartetten  -  choreography by Mats Ek
Lamentation (1930)  -  Music by Zoltán Kodály  -  Choreography by Martha Graham
Trisha Never Left Home (1999)  -  Music by Alexandros Mouzas  -  Choreography by Konstantin Mihos

Week of March 2, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Ken Ueno: Shiroi Ishi (2001)
Featured YouTube Performance    Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Sonata, op. 80, mvt 4 (1938/1946)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Vincent Persichetti: Night Dances, op. 114 (1970)
Featured Ensemble    oenm (Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music)
Featured Festival or Item    Contemporary Music in Croatia (William A Everett, Central Europe Review)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)

Week of March 9, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Anton Webern: Three Little Pieces, op. 11 (1914)
Featured YouTube Performance    Olivier Messiaen: The Word (1935)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bernard Herrmann: The Road & Finale from Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Featured Ensemble     Millenium Chamber Players (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Contemporary Music Festival 2009 (Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    In Memoriam: George Perle (Steven L. Rosenhaus, NewMusicBox)

Week of March 16, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Arvo Pärt: Da pacem domine, from "In Principio" (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance    Wojciech Kilar: Orawa (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alexandros Mouzas: Asma Asmaton (2008)
Featured Ensemble    Klangrorum Wein (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item    Waxiderny
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Sermon on the Life and Music of Jean Langlais (Colin Spinks, St. Mary le Strand)

Week of March 23, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Jean Langlais: Plainte from Suite Brève (1947)
Featured YouTube Performance    Anton Webern: Fünf Sätze, op. 5, mvt 1 (1909)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Beth Wiemann: Slow Burn (2005)
Featured Ensemble    New Music Collective (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    PRS Foundation for New Music (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Be Still, & Know That I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred (Martha Ainsworth)

Week of March 30, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Olivier Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (Little Sketches of Birds) (1985)
Featured YouTube Performance    Leo Brouwer: un dia de noviembre (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Benjamin Lees: Piano Concerto No. 2, mvt 3 (1966)
Featured Ensemble    Motion Ensemble (Fredericton, NB, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Ars Musica (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter?



February 2009
Featured Composers
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Philip Glass  (1937-     ), American
John Williams  (1932-     ), American
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Judith Zaimont (1945-     ), American
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969-     ), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Amy Scurria (1973-     ), American
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish

Featured Recordings
Pēteris Vasks  -  Musica adventus (1995/96);  Viatore (2001); Concerto for English horn (1989) (Wergo)
Michael Horwood  -  National Park Suite; Symphony No. 1; Intravariations; Amusement Park Suite
Pawel Lukaszewski  -  Choral Music

Composer Portraits
Peter Schickele  -  The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Philip Glass  -  The Composer's Voice/American Mavericks (American Public Media)

Pytheas Sightings
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  -  Music by Maurice Jarre  -  Film by David Lean
The Magnificent Seven (1960)  -  Music by Elmer Bernstein  -  Film by John Sturges
On the Waterfront (1956)  -  Music by Leonard Bernstein  -  Film by Elia Kazan

Danses Pytheuses
La vida breve (1905) & El amor brujo (1914-15/1925)  -  Music by Manuel de Falla
In the Upper Room (1986)  -  Music by Philip Glass  -  Choreography by Twyla Tharp

Week of February 2, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967)
Featured YouTube Performance    Andre Jolivet: Second Trumpet Concerto, mvt 3 (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Karl Henning: Out in the Sun (2006)
Featured Ensemble    Land’s End Chamber Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Sound Investments: The Commissioning Portfolio of Kathryn Gould (M. Sheridan, NewMusicBox)

Week of February 9, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Roger Sessions: Duo for Violin and Piano, mvt 1 (1942)
Featured YouTube Performance    Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (1915)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dmitri Tymoczko: Echo Code (2003)
Featured Ensemble     ZAGROS (Helsinki, Finland)
Featured Festival or Item    Louth Contemporary Music Society (Loth, Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Three Questions Before the First Night (Carson Cooman, Music & Vision)

Week of February 16, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Leo Brouwer: The Sky, the Air and a Smile (1979)
Featured YouTube Performance    Benjamin Britten: 6 Metamorphosis after Ovid - Narcissus (1951)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kazimierz Serocki: Suite of Preludes - Affettuoso (1952)
Featured Ensemble    ensemble cairn (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item    ERMMedia/numusic direct (Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)

Week of February 23, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Charles Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces - I. Largo (1904-1914/1924)
Featured YouTube Performance    Alan Hovhaness: Lousadzak op. 48, "The Coming of Light" (1944)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Judith Zaimont: Impronta Digitale (1999)
Featured Ensemble    Talea Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Arts Electric (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Roger Sessions and the Dilemma of Contemporary Classical Music (Charles Hamm, NMB)



January 2009
Featured Composers
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Leonard Bernstein  (1918-1990), American
Elliott Schwartz  (1936-    ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956-     ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948-     ), American
Maurice Jarre (1924-     ), French
Oscar Carmona (1975-     ), Chilean
Reza Vali (1952-     ), Iranian
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic

Featured Recordings
Paul Moravec  -  Chamber Symphony; Autumn Song; Cool Fire (Naxos)
Alan Hovhaness  -  Guitar Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 63 (Naxos)
Pēteris Vasks  -  Musica adventus (1995/96);  Viatore (2001); Concerto for English horn (1989) (Wergo)

Composer Portraits
Aaron Jay Kernis - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Jennifer Higdon - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)

Pytheas Sightings
The Piano (1993)  -  Music by Michael Nyman  - Film by Jane Campion
Spartacus (1960)  -  Music by Alex North  - Film by Stanley Kubrick
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)  -  Music by Maurice Jarre  -  Film by David Lean

Danses Pytheuses
Amelia (2002)  -  Music by David Lang  -  Choreography by Édouard Lock
Romeo and Juliet (1935/36)  -  Music by Sergei Prokofiev

Week of January 5, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Arvo Pärt: Fratres (1977/1980)
Featured YouTube Performance    Manuel de Falla: Homenaje (Le tombeau de Debussy) (1920)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Reza Vali: Folk Songs, Set No. 9 (1991)
Featured Ensemble    E3Q (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Music from Other Minds (KALW, 91.7 FM, San Fransisco, CA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Alvin Lucier on "Music On A Long Thin Wire" (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)

Week of January 12, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Igor Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for Clarinet, mvt 1 (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance    Nico Muhly: The Reader, selections (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Schwartz: Chamber Concerto II (1977)
Featured Ensemble     The Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Fransisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Internet Archive (San Fransisco, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Jón Leifs: Iceland's Santified Son (Alda Sigmundsdotti, Scandinavian Review)

Week of January 19, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Jón Leifs: Hekla, op. 52 (1961)
Featured YouTube Performance    Bernadette Speach, et al: baj - For Leroy (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peter Lieberson: Rilke Songs (2001)
Featured Ensemble    Hebrides Ensemble (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item    the livingroom.org (Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Igor Stravinsky and the Making of a Love Triangle (Natalie Shearer, Classical Music Pages)

Week of January 26, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance    Leonard Bernstein: Serenade for Violin (1954)
Featured YouTube Performance    Osvaldo Golijov: Lullaby and Doina (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jón Leifs: Requiem, op. 33b (1947)
Featured Ensemble    Wet Ink (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Estonian Music Days (Tallinn, Tartu & Pärnu, Estonia)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Magical Hidden Corners of Erik Satie (Matthew Westphal, andante.com)


2008
April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December

December 2008
Featured Composers
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Aaron Copland  (1900-1990), American
Henryk Gorecki  (1933-     ), Polish
Robert Muczynski (1929-     ), American
Michael Colgrass (1932-     ), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Meira Warshauer (1949-    ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952-     ), Chinese
Tom Myron (1959-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Karen Amrhein - Still Life (MMC Recordings)
Kalevi Aho - Symphony No. 12 "Luosto" (BIS Recordings)
Geoffrey Bush  -  A Christmas Cantata (Saydisc)
Paul Moravec  -  Chamber Symphony; Autumn Song; Cool Fire (Naxos)

Composer Portraits
An Interview with Steven Stucky (The New York Philharmonic, via The New York Times)
Meira Warshauer - Living, Breathing Earth (Aileen LeBlanc, Living on Earth)

Pytheas Sightings
La Belle et La Bête (1946)  -  Music by Georges Auric  -  Film by Jean Cocteau
The Shining (1980)  -  Krzysztof Penderecki: Polymorphia (1961)  -  Film by Stanley Kubrick
A Christmas Carol (1938)  -  Music by Franz Waxman  -  Film by Edwin L. Marin
The Piano (1993)  -  Music by Michael Nyman  - Film by Jane Campion

Danses Pytheuses
The Red Detachment of Women (1964)  -  Music by Du Mingxin, et al
Diversion of Angels (1949)  -  Music by Norman Dello Joio  -  Choreography by Martha Graham

Week of December 1, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Michael Colgrass: Old Churches (2000)
Featured YouTube Performance    Leos Janácek: Concertino for Piano - I. Moderato (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Muczynski: Six Preludes for Piano, op. 6, nos. 1 & 6  (1953-54)
Featured Ensemble    Sirius String Quartet (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Young Composers Program (Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Voices in the Dark  -  The Music of Alfred Schittke (Adrian Searle, The Guardian)

Week of December 8, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, part I (1956)
Featured YouTube Performance    Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano, first movement (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jean Coulthard: Sketches from the Western Woods (1970)  - The Silent Pool
Featured Ensemble     Duo46 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Meet the Composer (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Qu Xiao-Song - A Master of Tense Silence (Yingying, CRIEnglish.com)

Week of December 15, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus, op. 60 (1987)
Featured YouTube Performance    Arnold Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19 (1911)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tom Myron: Symphony No. 2, part 3, vivid flying (2000)
Featured Ensemble    NODUS Ensemble (Florida Int'l University, Miami, Florida,USA)
Featured Festival or Item    composersnewpencil.com - Music Composition and Technology
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Jean Coulthard - A Life in Music (A Book Review by J. Drew Stephen, CAML Review)

Week of December 22, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Cantata (1957)
Featured YouTube Performance    Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (1912)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gustav Holst: Christmas Day (1910)
Featured Ensemble    Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (Bowling Green University, Ohio)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Die Natali, chorale Christmas preludes for orchestra, Op. 37 (All Music Guide)

Week of December 29, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F, third movement (1925)
Featured YouTube Performance    John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Michael Colgrass: Déjà Vu (1977)
Featured Ensemble    Concorde (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item    Sonic Fusion Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Chasing a Music That Didn’t Exist - Harrison Birtwistle (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)



November 2008
Featured Composers
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
John Adams  (1947-     ), American
Karel Husa (1921-     ), Czech-American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Lee Actor (1952-    ), American
Gia Comolli (1965-     ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950-     ), Israeli
Gary Kulesha (1954-    ), Canadian
Mason Bates (1977-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Aaron Jay Kernis - Symphony in Waves (Cedille Records)
Charles Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets (Naxos Records)
Karen Amrhein - Still Life (MMC Recordings)

Composer Portraits
John Adams - An American Portrait
Daniel Dorff - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)

Pytheas Sightings
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)  -  Music by Philip Glass  -  Film by Godfrey Reggio
La Belle et La Bête (1946)  -  Music by Georges Auric  -  Film by Jean Cocteau

Week of November 3, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Grażyna Bacewicz: Sonata for Solo Violin, No.2, Finale (1958)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry (1992)
Featured Ensemble    Arraymusic (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Maerz Musik 2009 (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Symphonic Alchemist: Kulesha transforms human experience into music (R. Rival, SOCAN)

Week of November 10, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Karel Husa: Divertimento for Brass and Percussion (1958)
Featured YouTube Performance    Krzysztof Penderecki: Credo (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gustav Holst: Nunc Dimittis (1915)
Featured Ensemble     Ensemble MoEns (Unetice, Czech Republic)
Featured Festival or Item    Sante Fe New Music (Sante Fe, New Mexico)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Concerto for Two Universes - Music of Mason Bates (by Donna Perlmutter, LA Times)

Week of November 17, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Alfred Schnittke: String Trio (1985)
Featured YouTube Performance    David Lang: Monogrammed (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gary Kulesha: Horn Trio (2004)
Featured Ensemble    Collage New Music (Boston, MA)
Featured Festival or Item    Pictures of Music (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    "like raindrops we have dispersed all over the immense world ..." an interview with Karel Husa

Week of November 24, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    John Williams: Soundings (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance    Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love (1916)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tom Myron: Kathe Kollwitz, Part I (1998)
Featured Ensemble    Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Pictures of Music (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Composer & Quartet Educate & Entertain (C. Hyde, Maine Sunday Telegram)



October 2008
Featured Composers
Chen Yi (1953-     ), Chinsese
David Fennessy (1976-     ), Irish
Jacques Hétu (1938-     ), Canadian
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Kile Smith (1956-     ), American
Harold Stover (1946-     ), American
Steven Stucky (1949-     ), American
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Ellen Taffee Zwilich (1939-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Chen Yi - Sparkle (New World Records)
Reza Vali - Persian Folklore (New Albion Records)
Aaron Jay Kernis - Symphony in Waves (Cedille Records)

The Composer Speaks
John Adams - An American Portrait

Week of October 1, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Toru Takemitsu: Air for Solo Flute (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Lisa Hogan: Three Pieces for Piano (2006)
Featured Ensemble    Flucrum Point (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item    creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    The Geometry of Music (Michael D. Lemonick, Time)

Week of October 6, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor (1932)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, I. Pulses (1976)
Featured Ensemble    Brave New Works (Ann Arbor, MI)
Featured Festival or Item    Métisse Music (Paris, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Chen Yi - Composer speaks her own language (Emily Brown, Accent, Ithaca College)

Week of October 13, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Jacques Hétu: Finale from Suite for Guitar, op. 41 (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dmitri Tymoczko: The Eggman Variations, I (2005)
Featured Ensemble    Brave New Works (Ann Arbor, MI)
Featured Festival or Item    Frog Peak Music, Composers' Collective (Lebanon, NH)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Kile Smith - Ensembles Unite in an Ambitious "Vespers" (David P.Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer)
                                                      *** Special Feature: Kile Smith Interview with David P. Stearns - Streaming Audio

Week of October 20, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Chen Yi: Spring Dreams (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jorge Liderman: Draft (1998)
Featured Ensemble    The Smith Quartet (Great Britain)
Featured Festival or Item    creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Gallic Ghost Story

Week of October 27, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance    Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Lament (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Dorothy Hindman: Trembling (1998)
Featured Ensemble    Arraymusic (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Métisse Music (Paris, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Bold, Brash Cello Symphony (Michael Walsh, Time Magazine)

June - September 2008 [same as May 2008]


May 2008
Featured Composers
Karen Amrhein (1970-     ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Tan Dun (1957-     ), Korean
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-     ), Soviet/Russian
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Czech
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Aulis Sallinen (1935-     ), Finnish
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American

Featured Recordings
Lee Actor - Violin Concerto (Albany Records TROY 1017)

Week of May 5, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ronald J. Brown: My Garden Flourishes Beneath the Frozen Earth
Featured Ensemble    FIGURA - Music/Theater/Opera
Featured Festival or Item    creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Innovative Women Composers: Chen Yi

Week of May 12, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful    Perttu Haapanen: Saxophone Concerto (2003)
Featured Ensemble    dèdalo ensemble (Brescia, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item    Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music: International Computer Music Conference, August 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Schoenberg's 2nd String Quartet - The Day Music Went Mad (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)

Week of May 19, 2008 [same]

Week of May 26, 2008 [same]



April 2008
Featured Composers
Karen Amrhein (1970-     ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Tan Dun (1957-     ), Korean
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-     ), Soviet/Russian
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Czech
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Aulis Sallinen (1935-     ), Finnish
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American

Featured Recordings
Hi Kyung Kim - Crystal Drops (Albany Records TROY 1002)

Week of April 21, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tom Guralnick: Slides Peak (1994)
Featured Ensemble    Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item    Primavera Festival at the University of California at Santa Cruz, April 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    What is a Piece of Music? (Adam Frey, San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players Blog)

Week of April 28, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tom Guralnick: Slides Peak (1994)
Featured Ensemble    Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item    Primavera Festival at the University of California at Santa Cruz, April 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    What is a Piece of Music? (Adam Frey, San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players Blog)