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March 2014Featured 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)
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February 2014Featured 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 Sřchting (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 2014Featured 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 Sřchting (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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December 2013Featured 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 Sřchting (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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November 2013Featured 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 Sřchting (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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October 2013Featured 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 Sřchting (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: Abstraçőes (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 Sřchting: 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)
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September 2013Featured 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)
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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)
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August 2013Featured 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)
Week of August 12, 2013
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July 2013Featured 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)
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June 2013Featured 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)
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May 2013Featured 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)
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April 2013Featured 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 Bruynčl: 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
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)
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March 2013Featured 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)
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February 2013Featured Composers
Edgard Varčse (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 Varčse: Počme 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 Varčse: 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 Varčse 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 bćtica (1919)
Featured Pytheas Earful Luigi Dallapiccola: Three Questions with Two Answers (1962/1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gérard Grisey: Stčle (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)
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January
2013Featured 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
Déjŕ 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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