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August
2010Featured 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)
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July
2010Featured 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)
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June
2010Featured 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)
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May
2010Featured 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)
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April 2010Featured 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)
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March 2010Featured 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)
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February 2010Featured 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)
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January
2010Featured 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)
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December
2009Featured 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)
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November
2009Featured 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)
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October
2009Featured 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)
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September
2009Featured 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)
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August
2009Featured 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)
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July
2009Featured 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)
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June
2009Featured 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)
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May
2009Featured 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)
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April
2009Featured 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)
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March
2009Featured 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?
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February
2009Featured 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)
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January
2009Featured 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)
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December
2008Featured 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)
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November
2008Featured 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)
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October
2008Featured 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)
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May
2008Featured 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]
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April
2008Featured 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)
Pytheas New Music Video Archive
Pytheas Earful Archive - New Music Streaming Audio
Pytheas Recordings Archive - New Music on Records
Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
Pytheas Sightings Archive - New Music in Film
Danses Pytheuses - New Music for Dance
Sound Art - New Electroacoustic Music
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Pytheas Featured Ensembles
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
Pytheas Earful Archive - New Music Streaming Audio
Pytheas Recordings Archive - New Music on Records
Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
Pytheas Sightings Archive - New Music in Film
Danses Pytheuses - New Music for Dance
Sound Art - New Electroacoustic Music
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Pytheas Featured Ensembles
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
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