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Featured Archive

March 2014
Featured Composers
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Judith Zaimont (1945-     ), American
Eve Beglarian (1958-    ), American
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969-     ), American
Amy Scurria (1973-     ), American
Brett Dean (1961-    ), Australian
George Grella (1964-     ), American

Featured Recordings
David Van Vactor: Sym No. 1, 3; Recitativo & Salterello; Sinfonia breve (CRI 702) - also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Judith Zaimont: Eternal Evolution (Navona Records 5846)  -  see current Featured Recording

Composer Portraits
Helmut Lachenmann: Discussing His Music
Eve Beglarian - In Love with Both Sound and Language (NewMusicBox)   -  see current Composer Portrait

Pytheas Sightings
Shank (1974) - Music by Alex North - Film by William Castle
Extreme Prejudice (1987) - Music Jerry Goldsmith - Film by Walter Hill  -  see current Pytheas Sighting

Danses Pytheuses
Libertango (2010) - Music by Astor Piazzolla - Dancers Inna Svechnikova & Dmitry Chernysh
Where the Wind Blows (2009) - Music by Darren Ng - Choreography by Xiao-xiong Zhang - see current Danses Pytheuses

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Nicholas Patterson: Flotsam (Flatland) (2009)  -  see current Featured Sound Art

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Keiko Abe: Prism Variations (2005)
Michael Burritt: Fandango 13 (2013)  -  see current Featured New Percussion Music

Week of March 3, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of March 10, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of March 17, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Eve Beglarian: Until it Blazes (2001)
Featured Video Performance    Carl Nielsen: Canto serioso (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful    André Jolivet: Trois Chansons de Ménestrel (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Judith Zaimont: String Quartet, The Figure – Movement (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful    George Grella: Garageband Etudes (2008-09)
Featured Ensemble     The Harlem Quartet (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Avant Garde Project: Online Audio Resource (world wide web)  -  see also here
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    So, New? So Percussion (Jerry Bowles, Sequenza 21)

Week of March 24, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Dmitri Tymoczko: Typecase Treasury (2010), mvt 3  -  see Weekly New Music Video No. 1
Featured Video Performance    Roger Sessions: Six Pieces for Violoncello Solo (1966)  -  see Weekly New Music Video No. 2
Featured Pytheas Earful    William Grant Still: Songs of Separation (1949)  -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizabeth Vercoe: Fantavia Trills (1982)  -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Pytheas Earful   Albert Schnelzer: A Freak in Burbank (2007)  -  see current Pytheas Earful
Featured Ensemble     Neue Vocalsolisten (Stuttgart, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item    MATA Festival (Brooklyn, NY, USA)  -  April 14-21 2014
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Found: Three Examples of 21st Century Music (Rob Deemer, NewMusicBox)



February 2014
Featured Composers
David Van Vactor (1906-1994), American
George Walker (1922-     ), American
Hifumi Shimoyama (1930-    ), Japanese
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-    ), German
James Barnes (1949-     ), American
Ana-Maria Avram (1961-    ), Romanian
Andrew May (1968-    ), American
Rune Søchting (1974-     ), Dutch
Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
David Van Vactor: Symphony No. 1 & 3; Recitativo and Salterello; Sinfonia breve (CRI 702)

Composer Portraits
Helmut Lachenmann: Discussing His Music

Pytheas Sightings
Shank (1974) - Music by Alex North - Film by William Castle

Danses Pytheuses
Libertango (2010) - Music by Astor Piazzolla - Dancers Inna Svechnikova & Dmitry Chernysh

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Nicholas Patterson: Flotsam (Flatland) (2009)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Keiko Abe: Prism Variations (2005)

Week of February 3, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of February 10, 2014
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January 2014
Featured Composers
David Van Vactor (1906-1994), American
George Walker (1922-     ), American
Hifumi Shimoyama (1930-    ), Japanese
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-    ), German
James Barnes (1949-     ), American
Ana-Maria Avram (1961-    ), Romanian
Andrew May (1968-    ), American
Rune Søchting (1974-     ), Dutch
Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
David Van Vactor: Symphony No. 1 & 3; Recitativo and Salterello; Sinfonia breve (CRI 702)

Composer Portraits
Helmut Lachenmann: Discussing His Music

Pytheas Sightings
Shank (1974) - Music by Alex North - Film by William Castle

Danses Pytheuses
Libertango (2010) - Music by Astor Piazzolla - Dancers Inna Svechnikova & Dmitry Chernysh

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Nicholas Patterson: Flotsam (Flatland) (2009)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Keiko Abe: Prism Variations (2005)

Week of January 1, 2014
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of January 6, 2014
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Week of January 13, 2014
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Week of January 20, 2014
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Week of January 27, 2014
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December 2013
Featured Composers
David Van Vactor (1906-1994), American
George Walker (1922-     ), American
Hifumi Shimoyama (1930-    ), Japanese
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-    ), German
James Barnes (1949-     ), American
Ana-Maria Avram (1961-    ), Romanian
Andrew May (1968-    ), American
Rune Søchting (1974-     ), Dutch
Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
David Van Vactor: Symphony No. 1 & 3; Recitativo and Salterello; Sinfonia breve (CRI 702)

Composer Portraits
Helmut Lachenmann: Discussing His Music

Pytheas Sightings
Shank (1974) - Music by Alex North - Film by William Castle

Danses Pytheuses
Libertango (2010) - Music by Astor Piazzolla - Dancers Inna Svechnikova & Dmitry Chernysh

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Nicholas Patterson: Flotsam (Flatland) (2009)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Keiko Abe: Prism Variations (2005)

Week of December 2, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of December 9, 2013
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Week of December 16, 2013
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Week of December 23, 2013
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November 2013
Featured Composers
David Van Vactor (1906-1994), American
George Walker (1922-     ), American
Hifumi Shimoyama (1930-    ), Japanese
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-    ), German
James Barnes (1949-     ), American
Ana-Maria Avram (1961-    ), Romanian
Andrew May (1968-    ), American
Rune Søchting (1974-     ), Dutch
Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983-    ), Canadian

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Week of November 4, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)

Week of November 11, 2013
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Week of November 18, 2013
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Week of November 25, 2013
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October 2013
Featured Composers
David Van Vactor (1906-1994), American
George Walker (1922-     ), American
Hifumi Shimoyama (1930-    ), Japanese
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-    ), German
James Barnes (1949-     ), American
Ana-Maria Avram (1961-    ), Romanian
Andrew May (1968-    ), American
Rune Søchting (1974-     ), Dutch
Emilie Cecilia LeBel (1983-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
George Walker: Great American Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (Albany)
Helmut Lachenmann: Schwankungen am Rand (ECM New Series 1789)
David Van Vactor: Symphony No. 1 & 3; Recitativo and Salterello; Sinfonia breve (CRI 702)

Composer Portraits
Nicole Lizée - White Label Experiment
Lachenmann: Discussing His Music / Sacrum Profanum

Pytheas Sightings
City of Joy (1992) - Music by Ennio Morricone - Film by Roland Joffé
Empire of the Sun (1987) - Music by John Williams - Film by Steven Spielberg
Shank (1974) - Music by Alex North - Film by William Castle

Danses Pytheuses
Suspension (1943) - Music by Ray Green - Choreography by May O'Donnell
Pond (1982) - Music and Choreography by Alwin Nikolais
Libertango (2010) - Music by Astor Piazzolla - Dancers Inna Svechnikova, Dmitry Chernysh

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Dan Tramte: The God Particle (2011)
Otto Luening: Synthesis (1960)
Nicholas Patterson: Flotsam (Flatland) (2009)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
David Skidmore: In Contact (2006)
Steven Mackey: It Is Time (2010)
Keiko Abe: Prism Variations (2005)

Week of October 1, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Ana-Maria Avram: Textures Liminales (2011)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Alvamar Overture (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Helmut Lachenmann: Guero (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful    George Walker: Violin Concerto (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Emilie Cecilia LeBel: Tincture (2011)
Featured Ensemble    Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Sound (Banchory, Scotland)  -  Oct 23-Nov 23, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Battery - Woolf & Supove Kickstarting a Kickboxing Piece (Chris McGovern, The Glass)

Week of October 7, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Helmut Lachenmann: Trio Fluido (1968)
Featured Video Performance    Conlon Nancarrow: Study for Player Piano No. 21 (1948-60)
Featured Pytheas Earful    David Van Vactor: Sinfonia breve (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Hifumi Shimoyama: Kyoboku II (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andrew May: Confluence (1993)
Featured Ensemble     FIGURA (Copenhagen, Demark)
Featured Festival or Item    We Are All Mozart (Dennis Báthory-Kitsz)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Drones: from Stockhausen to La Monte Young to ... (Industrial Underground Music Library)

Week of October 14, 2013
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Fantasy Variations on Theme by Paganini (1988)
Featured Video Performance    Ann Millikan: Abstrações (2012)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Zoltán Kodály: An Ode for Music (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jesse Ayers: The Prayer of Elijah (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Rune Søchting: Abstrakt (2007)
Featured Ensemble    The Rubbing Stone Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    We Are All Mozart (Dennis Báthory-Kitsz)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Helmut Lachenmann: Short Portrait with Self-Portrait (C. Gadenstatter, Contemp Music Review)

Week of October 21, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Stephen Hartke: Audistis quia dictum est (2011)
Featured Video Performance    George Walker: Piano Sonata No. 1 (1953), mvt 2
Featured Pytheas Earful    Goffredo Petrassi: Orationes Christi (1975)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Shulamit Ran: For an Actor Monologue (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Aylward: Stillness and Change (2008)
Featured Ensemble    VERGE Ensemble (Washington, D.C., USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival  (Huddersfield, UK)  -  Nov 15-24, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Helmut Lachenmann: Short Portrait with Self-Portrait (C. Gadenstatter, Contemp Music Review)

Week of October 28, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Kaija Saariaho: Prélude (2007)
Featured Video Performance    James Barnes: Yorkshire Ballad (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers Suite (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elliott Carter: Syringa (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ana-Maria Avram: Zodiaque (1990)
Featured Ensemble    Thelema Trio (Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item    Art+Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    No More Poodles - DUMITRESCU/AVRAM: Rebirth of Avant Garde (Ben Watson, Mute)



September 2013
Featured Composers
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936-     ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948-     ), American
Philip Carlsen (1951-     ), American
Reza Vali (1952-     ), Iranian
Daniel Dorff (1956-      ), American
Jakub Ciupinski (1981-    ), Polish

Featured Recordings
Daniel Dorff: Perennials (Albany 1404)

Composer Portraits
James Matheson - On Composing
Daniel Dorff – NAMM Oral History Program

Pytheas Sightings
The Constant Gardener (2005) - Music by Alberto Iglesias - Film by Fernando Meirelles

Danses Pytheuses
Frida (1997) - Music by Silvestre Revueltas, Carlos Chávez & Joaquín Rodrigo - Choreography by Anna Sokolow
Suspension (1943) - Music by Ray Green - Choreography by May O'Donnell

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Mario Verandi: Noise Networks (2011)
Dan Tramte: The God Particle (2011)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
John Beck: In the Pocket (1999)

Week of September 2, 2013
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Week of September 9, 2013
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Week of September 16, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Elliott Schwartz: Test Drive (2012)
Featured Video Performance    Igor Stravinsky: Canticum sacrum (1955)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jón Leifs: Icelandic Folk Dances (1929)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Weinzweig: Symphonic Ode (1958)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Daniel Dorff: Two Cats (2007)
Featured Ensemble    Kathleen Supove, pianist
Featured Festival or Item    Lucid Culture (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Astor Piazzolla’s “Maria” in Overdue Chicago Debut (Andrew Patner, Chicago Sun Times)

Week of September 23, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Louise Talma: Alleluia in form of Toccata (1944)
Featured Video Performance    Jakub Ciupinski: The Voice of the Ancient Bard (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Georges Auric: Le Peintre et son modele (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bernadette Speach: Trio des trois (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Reza Vali: Three Romantic Songs (2012)
Featured Ensemble    Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) (Oberlin, OH, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Sound (Banchory, Scotland)  -  Oct 23-Nov 23, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Thoughts on the Youtube Symphony Orchestra (The Omniscient Mussel)



August 2013
Featured Composers
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Aaron Copland  (1900-1990), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010), American
Michael Colgrass (1932-     ), American
Henryk Górecki  (1933-2010), Polish
Meira Warshauer (1949-    ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952-     ), Chinese
Tom Myron (1959-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Mason Bates: Digital Loom (MSR Classics 1342)

Composer Portraits
James Matheson - On Composing

Pytheas Sightings
Phrygian Gates (2012) - Music by John Adams - Film by Ian Houghton

Danses Pytheuses
Ela (2003)/Casa (1999) - Music by Maurice Ravel, and others - Choreography: Deborah Colker
Frida (1997) - Music by Revueltas, Chavez & Rodrigo - Choreography by Anna Sokolow

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Bülent Arel: Mimiana II: Frieze (1969)
Mario Verandi: Noise Networks (2011)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Thomas Osborne: This and That (2010)

Week of August 5, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Michael Colgrass: Variations for Four Drums & Viola (1957)
Featured Video Performance    Henryk Górecki: Quasi una Fantasia (Str Qt No. 2) (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Robert Muczynski: Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 14 (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    George Crumb: Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) (1964)
Featured Pytheas Earful    James Matheson: Pull (1995)
Featured Ensemble    New Spectrum Ensemble (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Letter To a Young Composer (Michael Colgrass, The New York Times)

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July 2013
Featured Composers
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Karel Husa (1921-     ), Czech-American
John Adams  (1947-     ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950-     ), Israeli
Lee Actor (1952-    ), American
Gary Kulesha (1954-    ), Canadian
Gia Comolli (1965-     ), American
Mason Bates (1977-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Mason Bates: Digital Loom (MSR Classics 1342)

Composer Portraits
John Adams Interview
Augusta Read Thomas Interview - "Resounding Earth"

Pytheas Sightings
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) - Music by Alexandre Desplat - Film by Peter Webber
The Ninth Gate (1999) – Music by Wojciech Kilar – Film by Roman Polanski
Phrygian Gates (2012) - Music by John Adams - Film by Ian Houghton

Danses Pytheuses
Dance (2010) - Music By Philip Glass - Choreography by Lucinda Childs
Ela (2003)/Casa (1999) - Music by Maurice Ravel, and others - Choreography: Deborah Colker

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Heather Frasch: métal re-sculpté I (2009)
Bülent Arel: Mimiana II: Frieze (1969)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Bill Cahn: Night Ride (2005)
Emmanuel Séjourné: Six Baguettes (1990)
Thomas Osborne: This and That (2010)

Week of July 1, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Karel Husa: Elegie et Rondeau (1960)
Featured Video Performance    Béla Bartók: String Quartet No.6, 1st mvt (1939)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gustav Holst: Seven Part-Songs, op. 44 (1926)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gia Comolli: Nashisms (1988)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Boris Levenberg: Suite from "Much Ado About Nothing" (1996)
Featured Ensemble    Motion Ensemble (Fredericton, NB, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Audiences Become What They Listen To (Bob Shingleton, On an Overgrown Path)

Week of July 8, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Gary Kulesha: Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (2011)
Featured Video Performance    Einojuhani Rautavaara: Vigilia (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Grażyna Bacewicz: Piano Sonata #2 (1958)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Joaquín Rodrigo: Tarde en el parque, from "Tres Evocaciones" (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Lee Actor: Prelude to a Tragedy (2003)
Featured Ensemble     Reservoir (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK)
Featured Festival or Item    highSCORE Festival (Pavia, Italy)  July 15-27, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Turning Circles and Squares Into Noise (Adam Shatz, The New York Times)

Week of July 15, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Mason Bates: The B-Sides (2008)
Featured Video Performance    Boris Levenberg: Two Preludes (1967)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Virgil Thomson: Family Portrait (1972/1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful    John Adams: Road Movies (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Thomas Osborne: Rumi Songs (2011)
Featured Ensemble    UH Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Featured Festival or Item    Evolution Contemporary Music Series (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Laurie Spiegel: Pioneer in Interactive Music & Video Software (Bill Murphy, Electronic Musician)

Week of July 22, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Grażyna Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953), mvt 2
Featured Video Performance    Astor Piazzolla: Adios Nonino (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Sonata for Harp (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stephen Albert: To Wake the Dead (1977)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stan Grill: Two Sad Songs (2002)
Featured Ensemble    S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Young Composers Project (Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Does Anyone Like Modern Classical Music? (Alexandra Coghlan, The Independent)

Week of July 29, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Grażyna Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953), mvt 2
Featured Video Performance    Astor Piazzolla: Adios Nonino (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Sonata for Harp (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stephen Albert: To Wake the Dead (1977)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stan Grill: Two Sad Songs (2002)
Featured Ensemble    S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Young Composers Project (Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Does Anyone Like Modern Classical Music? (Alexandra Coghlan, The Independent)



June 2013
Featured Composers
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Ellen Taffee Zwilich (1939-     ), American
Mario Davidovsky (1934-    ), Argentine-America
Sorin Lerescu (1953-    ), Romanian
Kile Smith (1956-     ), American
Tamar Muskal (1965-    ), Israeli-American
James Matheson (1970-     ), American
Alexandra Fol (1981-    ), Bulgarian
Andrew McPherson (1982-    ), American

Featured Recordings
Sea Change – Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (Collegium 901)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
Carl Orff - A Portrait
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Conversation 2007

Pytheas Sightings
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) - Music by Alexandre Desplat - Film by Peter Webber

Danses Pytheuses
Fools' Paradise (2007) - Music by Joby Talbot - Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Second Hand (1970) - Music by John Cage - Choreography by Merce Cunningham

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Dan Tramte: The God Particle (2011)
Rodolfo Valente: jardim sintético #1 (2011)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Bill Cahn: Night Ride (2005)

Week of June 3, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Tamar Muskal: Fur Elisa (2011)
Featured Video Performance    Carl Nielsen: Commotio, op. 58 (1931)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos (1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kile Smith: Sinner, Don’t Let This Harvest Pass (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alexandra Fol: Watching the Stars over the Rhodopi Mountains in Silence (2011)
Featured Ensemble    Quorum (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Featured Festival or Item    No Extra Notes - Interviews with Young Composers
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Prokofiev Moves Back to Russia (Kile Smith)

Week of June 10, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Sorin Lerescu: Modalis III (2006)
Featured Video Performance    Francis Poulenc: La Dame de Monte-Carlo (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roy Harris: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mario Davidovsky: Festino (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andrew McPherson: Interstate Holiday (2008)
Featured Ensemble     Duo46 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Culture Collide Festival (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)

Week of June 17, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Sorin Lerescu: Modalis III (2006)
Featured Video Performance    Francis Poulenc: La Dame de Monte-Carlo (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roy Harris: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mario Davidovsky: Festino (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andrew McPherson: Interstate Holiday (2008)
Featured Ensemble     Duo46 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Culture Collide Festival (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)

Week of June 24, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Sorin Lerescu: Modalis III (2006)
Featured Video Performance    Francis Poulenc: La Dame de Monte-Carlo (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Roy Harris: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mario Davidovsky: Festino (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andrew McPherson: Interstate Holiday (2008)
Featured Ensemble     Duo46 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Culture Collide Festival (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)



May 2013
Featured Composers
William Grant Still (1895-1978), American
Einojuhani  Rautavaara (1928-     ), Finnish
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), English
Charles Wuorinen (1938-     ), American
Chen Yi (1953-     ), Chinsese
Orlando Gough (1953-    ), British
Marc Mellits (1966-    ), American
Nicole Lizée (1973-    ), Canadian

Featured Recordings
Hilary Tann - Songs of the Cotton Grass (Deux-Elles 1132)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Sym No. 8; Harp Concerto (Ondine Ode 978-2)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Sea Change – Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (Collegium 901)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
Aaron Copland - Day at Night with James Day/CUNY TV
Mark Mellits – ASCAP Audio Portrait
Carl Orff - A Portrait

Pytheas Sightings
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) – Music by Hans Zimmer – Film by Bille August
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) – Music by Richard Rodney Bennett – Film by Franklin J. Schaffner
The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (2012) - Music by Nicole Lizée - Film by Mark Campbell

Danses Pytheuses
Second Exposure (2007) - Music by Ricardo Romaneiro - Choreography by Darrell grand Moultrie
Signing Off (2003) - Music by Philip Glass - Choreography by Paul Lightfoot & Sol León
Fools' Paradise (2007) - Music by Joby Talbot - Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Young-Shin Choi: Blurred Lines II (2011)
Pierre Schaeffer: Peu Banal (Impromptu) (1978)
Dan Tramte: The God Particle (2011)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Lynn Glassock: Motion (1986)
Da Jeong Choi: Explorations of a Drum (2003; rev. 2009)
Richard Rodney Bennett: After Syrinx II (1982)

Week of May 1, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Chen Yi: As in a Dream (1988; rev. 1994)
Featured Video Performance    Virgil Thomson: Stabat Mater (1931)
Featured Pytheas Earful    William Grant Still: Kaintuck (1935)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Richard Rodney Bennett: Elegy for Miles Davis (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Nicole Lizée: Left Brain/Right Brain (2002)
Featured Ensemble    Boston Musica Viva (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (Plymouth, UK)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Music for a Virtual Life (Andrew Clark, Financial Times)

Week of May 6, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Orlando Gough: The Ariel Songs (1997)
Featured Video Performance    Marc Mellits: 11 Pieces for Flute and Piano (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Leos Janácek: Glagolitic Mass (1926)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Argento Dominick: Domesticity, from "Casa Guidi" (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Chen Yi: Bright Moonlight (2001)
Featured Ensemble     Zargos Ensemble (Helsinki, Finland)
Featured Festival or Item    souNZ - Centre for New Zealand Music (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Why Do We Hate Modern Classical Music? (Alex Ross, The Guardian)

Week of May 13, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Einojuhani Rautavaara: Vigilia (1971)
Featured Video Performance    Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for Left Hand (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Henry Cowell: Air for Solo Violin and String Orchestra (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizabeth Vercoe: Despite our differences #1 (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Charles Wuorinen: Hexadactyl (2002)
Featured Ensemble    Sam Z. Solomon - percussionist (Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance (Mannes College, NY, NY) June 17-26, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Composing in the Computer Age (Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe)

Week of May 20, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain II (1977)
Featured Video Performance    Charles Wuorinen: Six Pieces (nos. 1, 2, 5) (1977)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ernest Bloch: Five Sketches in Sepia (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful    André Jolivet: Symphonie pour cordes (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Marc Mellits: Fruity Pebbles (1997)  also  mvt  4   5   7   8
Featured Ensemble    Canyonlands New Music Ensemble (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    composersnewpencil.com - Music Composition and Technology (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Nicole Lizée - Surrealist Collagist (Richard Simas, Musicworks Magazine)

Week of May 27, 2013
Featured Video Performance    William Grant Still: Songs of Separation (1945)
Featured Video Performance    Witold Lutosławski: Cello Concerto (1970)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis (1929)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Einojuhani  Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus (1972)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Nicole Lizée: Dystopia Suite (2009)
Featured Ensemble    UNM Percussion Ensemble (University of New Mexico, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    John Duffy: The Composer as Statesman (Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox)



April 2013
Featured Composers
Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), American
Luigi Nono (1924-1990), Italian
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Hubert Bird (1939-     ), American
Brian Cherney (1942-     ), Canadian
Hilary Tann (1947-    ), Welsh
Alberto Iglesias (1955-     ), Spanish
Joni Greene (1981-    ), American
David Skidmore (1982-     ), American

Featured Recordings
Anna Meredith: Black Prince Fury (Moshi Moshi Records)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Hilary Tann - Songs of the Cotton Grass (Deux-Elles 1132)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
Anna Meredith – Hands Free
Hubert Bird – The Other Side of Storm

Pytheas Sightings
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) - Music by Giya Kancheli - Film by Eldar Shengelaya
Dial M For Murder (1954) - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin - Film by Alfred Hitchcock
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) – Music by Hans Zimmer – Film by Bille August

Danses Pytheuses
Death is the Hunter (1975) - Music by Wallingford Riegger - Choreography by Erick Hawkins
Contact Dance (1996) - Music by ???? - Choreography by Steve Paxton

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Tambuco and Kevork Mourad: Pencils (2009)
Ton Bruynèl: Notturno and Pedraza (1988)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water (1986)
David Skidmore: Whispers [for 9 percussionists] (2005)
Lynn Glassock: Motion (1986)

Week of April 1, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Hilary Tann: Shakkei (2007)
Featured Video Performance    Karlheinz Stockhausen: Leo, from "Tier"
Featured Pytheas Earful    Luigi Nono: Liebeslied (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Conlon Nancarrow: Piece No. 2 for Small Orchestra (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tansy Davies: Destroying Beauty (2008)
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble Zeitfluss (Graz, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item    22Tracks/Contemporary
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Luigi Nono - On What Would Have Been His 80th Birthday/2004 (John Warnaby, MusicWeb Int'l)

Week of April 8, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Luigi Nono: ...sofferte onde serene (1976)
Featured Video Performance    Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonata (1990), mvt 3, "Toccata De Pasquini"
Featured Pytheas Earful    Carl Orff: Die Kluge (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizaveta Sanicheva: Six (2005), excerpt
Featured Ensemble     Washington Musica Viva (Takoma Park, Maryland, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Back Bay Contemporary Music Festival (Portland, Maine, USA)  -  April 12-14, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Resounding Earth (Edward McCue, Boulder Bach Beat)

Week of April 15, 2013
Featured Video Performance        Stephen Hartke: Caoine (1980)
Featured Video Performance    Bernard Herrmann: The Giant Crab [Mysterious Island, 1961]
Featured Pytheas Earful    Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for Harp and (1927)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peter Sculthorpe: Mangrove (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alberto Iglesias: Hable Con Ella (Talk To Her) (2002)
Featured Ensemble    Sonos Chamber Orchestra (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Contemporary Music in Croatia (William Everett, Central Europe Review)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    American Sublime: Morton Feldman's Mysterious Musical Landscapes (Alex Ross,The New Yorker)

Week of April 22, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Morton Feldman: Neither (1977), excerpt
Featured Video Performance    Hilary Tann: The Cresset Stone (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26 (1910)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Arthur Berger: Duo for Cello and Piano (1951)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Joni Greene: Event Horizon (2011)
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble Zeitfluss (Graz, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item    John Duffy Composers Institute (Old Domimion University, Norfolk, VA) -  May 20-June 2, 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Remembering Arthur Berger (Grant Chu Covell, La Folia)



March 2013
Featured Composers
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Czech
Jacob Druckman (1928-1996), American
Benjamín Gutiérrez (1937-     ), Costa Rican
Joseph Schwantner (1943-     ), American
Elizabeth Brown (1953-    ), American
Mario Verandi (1960-     ), Argentinian
Daniel David Feinsmith (1966-     ), American
Andrew Staniland (1977-    ), Canadian
Anna Meredith (1978-    ), British

Featured Recordings
Stephen Albert: In Concordium; TreeStone (Naxos 8.559708)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Joseph Schwantner: Angelfire, etc. (Hyperion CDA67493)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Anna Meredith: Black Prince Fury (Moshi Moshi Records)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
Paul Moravec  -  An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Joseph Schwantner: Made in America Interview

Pytheas Sightings
The Man in Half Moon Street (1944) - Music by Miklós Rózsa - Film by Ralph Murphy
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Music by Alberto Iglesias - Film by Tomas Alfredson
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983) - Music by Giya Kancheli - Film by Eldar Shengelaya

Danses Pytheuses
Abhisheka (2004)  - Music by John Psathas - Choreography by Adrian Burnett
Le marteau sans maître (1973) - Music by Pierre Boulez - Choreography by Maurice Béjart

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Andrew Staniland: True North (2007)
Mario Verandi: Prague - Imaginary Fragments (2006)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
John Psathas: One Study One Summary (2005)
Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque (2000)
Jacob Druckman: Reflections on the Nature of Water (1986)

Week of March 5, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Joseph Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion (1994), mvt 1
Featured Video Performance    Daniel Feinsmith: 8 Creative Utterances of Elohim (2007), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 6 (1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizabeth Brown: Anthem (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Anna Meredith: Camberwell Green (2010)
Featured Ensemble    Ethos New Music Society (SUNY at Fredonia, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    highSCORE 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Channeling the Divine (Brett Campbell, San Francisco Classical Voice)

Week of March 12, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Jacob Druckman: Valentine (1969)
Featured Video Performance    Miklós Rózsa: Sonata for Guitar, op. 42 (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Benjamín Gutiérrez: Habanera (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stella Sung: Dance of the White Lotus under the Silver Moon (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Mario Verandi: Yguasu (2011)
Featured Ensemble     Okeanos (Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, England)
Featured Festival or Item    MusicNow Festival (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Andrew Staniland Playing Leading Edge of Sound Design (John Terauds, Musical Toronto)

Week of March 19, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Concerto No. 4, "Incantation" (1956)
Featured Video Performance    Andrew Staniland: Pentagrams (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Alfredo Casella: Harp Sonata, op.68 (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Marga Richter: Lament for String Orchestra (1956)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Anna Meredith: Nautilus (2012)
Featured Ensemble    thingNY (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Studio of Electronic Music, Inc. (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Slipping Through Memory - The Music of Elizabeth Brown (Molly Sheridan, NewMusicBox)

Week of March 26, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Anna Meredith: HandsFree (2012)
Featured Video Performance    György Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Cello (1948-53)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Bohuslav Martinů: String Quartet No. 7, "Concerto da camera" (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Andersen Viana: Concert Piece in Blue (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Elizabeth Brown: Seahorse (2009)
Featured Ensemble    Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva, Switzerland)
Featured Festival or Item    SoundMakers/Soundstreams (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Why There Are So Few Female Composers (Kerry Andrew, The Guardian)



February 2013
Featured Composers
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), American
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Henri Lazarof (1932-     ), Bulgarian-American
Giya Kancheli (1935-     ), Soviet-Georgian
Stephen Albert (1941-92), American
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), French
Joelle Wallach (1946-    ), American
Ash Madni (1963?-    ), Indian-British
Paola Lopreiato (1983-    ), Italian

Featured Recordings
Joan Tower - Concertos (d’Note Records)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
John Psathas - Rhythm Spike (Rattle Records 008)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Stephen Albert: In Concordium; TreeStone (Naxos 8.559708)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
A Conversation with George Crumb (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
John Psathas - A Conversation on Talk Talk

Pytheas Sightings
Seven Days in May (1964) - Music by Jerry Goldsmith - Film by John FrankenHeimer
Passport (1990) - Music by Giya Kancheli - Film by Georgi Daneliya
The Man in Half Moon Street (1944) - Music by Miklós Rózsa - Film by Ralph Murphy

Danses Pytheuses
German Expressionist Dance by Mary Wigman
Throw People (2006) - Music by Andy Teirstein - Choreography by Chris Elam

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Edgard Varèse: Poème électronique (1957-58)
Henri Lazarof: Cadence VI (1973)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Bill Cahn: Raga No. 1 (1968)
Eric Ewazen: Symphony for Percussion (2008)
John Psathas: One Study One Summary (2005)

Week of February 4, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Henri Lazarof: Tempi Concertati (1964)
Featured Video Performance    Gérard Grisey: Périodes (1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Sergei Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Giya Kancheli: Time... and Again (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Joelle Wallach: Listen! Close Your Eyes; The Clothes of Heaven
Featured Ensemble    Tony Arnold, soprano (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Soundings - Austrian Cultural Forum London (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Interview with Gérard Grisey (David Bündler)

Week of February 11, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Edgard Varèse: Ecuatorial (1934)
Featured Video Performance    Lee Hyla: We Speak Etruscan (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Thea Musgrave: Clarinet Concerto (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Stephen Albert: Symphony No. 1, "RiverRun" - IV. River's End (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Ash Madni: Meeting Jo (2011)
Featured Ensemble     Real Quiet (New Music Ensemble)
Featured Festival or Item    Southern Exposure New Music Series (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Varèse and the Cello Theremin: A Love Story (Jonathan Golove)

Week of February 18, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Giya Kancheli: Having Wept (1994)
Featured Video Performance    Leonard Bernstein: Four Anniversaries (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Manuel de Falla: Fantasia bætica (1919)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Luigi Dallapiccola: Three Questions with Two Answers (1962/1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Gérard Grisey: Stèle (1995)
Featured Ensemble    Topology (Brisbane, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item    Canadian Music Centre's Audio Gallery (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Stephen Albert - A Conversation with Bruce Duffie

Week of February 25, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)
Featured Video Performance    Krzysztof Penderecki: Capriccio for Tuba Solo (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Zoltán Kodály: Epigrams (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Miklós Rózsa: Viola Concerto, op. 37 (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Joelle Wallach: The Cloths of Heaven (2006)
Featured Ensemble    Da Capo Chamber Players (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    highSCORE 2013
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Is It Dangerous? (Daniel Felsenfeld, NewMusicBox)



January 2013
Featured Composers
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), Hungarian
Marion Bauer (1882-1955), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-     ), Russian
Aulis Sallinen (1935-     ), Finnish
Tan Dun (1957-     ), Chinese
Lance Hulme (1960-    ), American
Joseph Klein (1962-    ), American
Kawai Shiu (1967-    ), Chinese
Karen Amrhein (1970-     ), American

Featured Recordings
James MacMillan: St. John Passion (2008)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
György Kurtág/Franz Schubert/Intersections (Caprice Records)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes
Joan Tower - Concertos (d’Note Records)  -  also  CD Review,  sample audio files  and  itunes

Composer Portraits
An Interview with Karen Amrhein @ Common Tone
Béla Bartók: Interview from the Ask the Composer
An Interview with Tan Dun (Chinese Classical Composers)

Pytheas Sightings
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) - Music by John Williams - Film by Steven Spielberg
Piano Tooners (1932) – Music by Régis Campo – Film by John Foster
Seven Days in May (1964) - Music by Jerry Goldsmith - Film by John FrankenHeimer

Danses Pytheuses
Zeitraum (1998) - Music by Yens & Yens - Choreography by Rui Horta
The Art of Forgetting (2010) - Music by Sahan Satis - Choreography Lucia Tong
Déjà vu (1995) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Hans van Manen

Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
François Bayle: L'oiseau chanteur (1963)
Corneliu Dan Georgescu: Resonanzen (1999)
Paola Lopreiato: con forze che si svolgono sferiche (2010)

Bang, Clang and Beat  -  New Music for Percussion
Eric Ewazen: Northern Lights (1989)
John Cage: Credo in Us (1942)
Bill Cahn: Raga No. 1 (1968)

Week of January 1, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Aulis Sallinen: Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote (1986)
Featured Video Performance    Missy Mazzoli: Song From the Uproar (2012)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Béla Bartók: Four Dirges (1910)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Sofia Gubaidulina: Silenzio (1991), nos. I-III
Featured Pytheas Earful    Da Jeong Choi: Mei Votum (2008)
Featured Ensemble    American Chamber Ensemble (Baldwin, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    A Woman’s Life Written in Music (Dardis McNamee, The Vienna Review)

Week of January 7, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Sofia Gubaidulina: De Profundis (1978)
Featured Video Performance    Chinary Ung: Luminous Spirals (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Joseph Klein: Pathways: Interior Shadows (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Karen Amrhein: Isaiah 40 (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Kawai Shiu: la coral de una mano alberto (2007)
Featured Ensemble     Boreal Electro-Acoustic Music Society (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item    2013 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Philip Glass Discusses the State of Modern Music (Nico Muhly, The Guardian)

Week of January 14, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Tan Dun: Tea (2002), "Death of Lan"
Featured Video Performance    James Macmillan: Kiss on Wood (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Albert Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage, op. 35, no. 2 (1927)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Lance Hulme: Ghost Dialogues (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Patrício da Silva: Recursions I (2007)
Featured Ensemble    Third Angle New Music Ensemble (Portland, OR, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    New Creations Festival – Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Are You Putting Me On? (Dan Joseph, NewMusicBox)

Week of January 21, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Gloria Coates: Nightscape (2008)
Featured Video Performance    Kevin Puts: Piano Concerto, "Night" (2007), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful    Carl Ruggles: Vox Clamans (in Deserto) (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Pēteris Vasks: Landscape with Birds (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Tan Dun: Circle (1992)
Featured Ensemble    Margaret Leng Tan, piano
Featured Festival or Item    Living Composers Project: Anything Piano (Donna Gross Javel)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Twentieth Century Music: How it Developed, How to Listen to It (Marion Bauer)   also   here

Week of January 28, 2013
Featured Video Performance    Gareth Farr: Kembang Suling (1995)
Featured Video Performance    Alban Berg: Wozzeck (1922), excerpt
Featured Pytheas Earful    Jon Leifs: Landfall, op. 41 (1955)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Peter Schickele: Elegies for Clarinet and Piano (1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful    Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs (1974)
Featured Ensemble    Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble (Fairfax, Vermont, USA)
Featured Festival or Item    The Internet Archive (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas    Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Opera World)



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