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Featured Archive 2008 - 2009
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Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
Pytheas Opera Archive - New Music Theater and Stage
Pytheas Sightings Archive - New Music in Film
Danses Pytheuses - New Music for Dance
Sound Art - New Electroacoustic Music
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Pytheas Featured Ensembles
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Current Pytheas Featured Archive - here
2009
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December
2009Featured Composers
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French
Max Steiner (1888-1971), Austrian-American
Harry Partch (1901-1974), American
William Walton (1902-1983), British
Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian
Magnus Lindberg (1958- ), Finnish
Bruce Roter (1962- ), American
Sarah Horick (1984- ), American
Edward Wright (1980- ), English
Featured Recordings
Libby Larsen - Sym No. 4; Songs of Light & Love; Songs from Letters (Koch) also CD Review & sample audio files
John Psathas - Fragments (HRL Morrison Music Trust) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Witold Lutosławski in Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian
An Interview with Pianist Gwendolyn Mok: Ravel Revealed (Capital Public Radio/MSR Classics) - check here for text version
Ann Southam @ The Composer's Chair (Canadian Music Centre)
Pytheas Sightings
49th Parallel (1941) - Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
December (2009) - Music by Ástor Piazzolla - Film by Jamie Ward
Danses Pytheuses
Sea (2008) (from “Out of Place”) - Music by Iva Bittová - Choreography by Wendy Osserman
Trapeze (1924) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev - Choreography by Natalia Ryzhenko
Winter Fragments (2008) - Music by John Cage - Choreography by Deborah Graham
Week of December 1, 2009
Featured Video Performance Ástor Piazzolla: Nightclub 1960 (1985)
Featured Video Performance Harry Partch: Delusions of the Fury, part 2 (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Maija Hynninen: MOI! (2008)
Featured Ensemble Pendulum New Music (Univ of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Orchestra 60x60 (@ VoxNovus)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas He's Dropped the Chains, But Not the Vision (Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe)
Week of December 7, 2009
Featured Video Performance Aulis Sallinen: Dream Songs, op. 30 (1973), nos. 3 & 4
Featured Video Performance Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 4 (1945), 2nd mvt
Featured Pytheas Earful Edward Wright: Postcards from Home (2007)
Featured Ensemble New London Chamber Choir (NLCC) (London, England)
Featured Festival or Item Foundation for Modern Music (Houston, Texas, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas On Sewing Machines and Self-Expression (Lisa Bielawa, Andante.com)
Week of December 14, 2009
Featured Video Performance Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (1931), 1st mvt
Featured Video Performance Judith Zaimont: Borealis (from Sky Curtains) (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mark Gresham: Mortal Coils (2009)
Featured Ensemble Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item GR Music - New Art Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas William Walton: The Enfant Terrible of Oldham (Bayan Northcott, The Independent)
Week of December 21, 2009
Featured Video Performance Danny Elfman: Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Tiomkin: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tracy Rush: Angels in the Snow (1998)
Featured Ensemble Paragon Ensemble (Glasglow, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item Spacial Music Collective (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Ástor Piazzolla: Chronology of a Revolution (Jorge Pessinis & Carlos Kuri, piazzolla.org)
Week of December 28, 2009
Featured Video Performance Norman Dello Joio: Jubilant Song (1945)
Featured Video Performance Maurice Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920-22)
Featured Pytheas Earful Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (1944), Allegro marcato
Featured Ensemble Land's End Chamber Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Outpost Performance Space (Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Andante.com)
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November
2009Featured Composers
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Polish
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), American
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Brazilian
Nino Rota (1911-1979), Italian
Richard Danielpour (1956- ), American
Ann Southam (1937- ), Canadian
Barbara Harbach (1950- ), American
Zbyněk Matějů (1958- ), Czech
J. Anthony Allen (1978- ), American
Featured Recordings
Barbara Harbach - Music of Barbara Harbach, Vol. 4 – Chamber Music II (MSR) also CD Review & sample audio files
Dan Locklair - Orchestra Music (Naxos) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Igor Stravinsky - Igor Stravinsky: Composer/Janos Darvas, 2001
Elliott Carter in Conversation with Steven Stucky
Witold Lutosławski in Conversation with Charles Amirkhanian
Pytheas Sightings
Henry V (1944) - Music by William Walton - Film by Sir Laurence Olivier
Now, Voyager (1942) - Music by Max Steiner - Film by Irving Rapper
Danses Pytheuses
Adrift in Softness (2007) - Music by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Choreography by Patrick Delcroix
Ibbur, or a Prague Mystery (2005) - Music by Zbyněk Matějů - Choreography by Petr Zuska
Sea (2008) (from “Out of Place”) - Music by Iva Bittová - Choreography by Wendy Osserman
Week of November 2, 2009
Featured Video Performance Witold Lutoslawski: Chain 1 (1983)
Featured Video Performance Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord (1909-1915), mvt 4 - "Thoreau"
Featured Pytheas Earful Dmitri Tymoczko: Fools and Angels (2004)
Featured Ensemble Fifth Tier New Music Ensemble (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item American Composers Alliance (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Gettin Jiggy With Stravinsky (The Wake)
Week of November 9, 2009
Featured Video Performance Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto (1940), mvt 3
Featured Video Performance Ann Southam: Rivers No. 8 (1979-81)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mason Bates: Seismology (2008)
Featured Ensemble Elinor Frey, cellist (Montreal, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Music Academy Online
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Musical Ode to Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson & Josh Gibson ... (Martin Steinberg, Associated Pr)
Week of November 16, 2009
Featured Video Performance Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 (1930) - Prelůdio
Featured Video Performance Edgard Varčse: Tuning Up, orchestra (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful Libby Larsen: Deep Summer Music (1982)
Featured Ensemble ensemble recherche (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) also here
Featured Festival or Item MATA Festival (Brooklyn, NY) - April 19-22, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Brain Disease Shaped Boléro (John Whitfield, Nature)
Week of November 23, 2009
Featured Video Performance Richard Danielpour: Margaret Garner (2005)
Featured Video Performance Karen Amrhein: Princes Paliné (2007/2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ann Southam: In Retrospect, piano (2004)
Featured Ensemble Present Music (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Masterpiece's of 20th-Century Tape Music (Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Samuel Barber: American's Composer (Paul Varnell, Chicago Free Press/Independent Gay Forum)
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October
2009Featured Composers
Charles Ives (1874-1954), American
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Hungarian
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Argentinian
John Tavener (1944- ), British
Stephen Paulus (1949- ), American
Marta Ptaszyńska (1943- ), Polish-American
Alex Shapiro (1962- ), American
Ge Gan-ru (1954- ), Chinese
David Sartor (1956- ), American
Featured Recordings
Bright Sheng - The Phoenix, and other works (Naxos) also CD Review & sample audio files
Ann Southam - Simple Lines of Enquiry (2008) (Centredisces) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Christopher Rouse - Interview with Soli Deo Gloria CEO Chandler Branch
György Ligeti - Interview with John Tusa/BBC Radio 3
Igor Stravinsky - Igor Stravinsky: Composer/Janos Darvas, 2001
Pytheas Sightings
Hawaii (1966) - Music by Elmer Bernstein - Film by George Roy Hill
8 ˝ (1963) - Music by Nino Rota - Film by Federico Fellini
Danses Pytheuses
Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Choreography by Maurice Béjart (1959)
Echoes (2008) - Music by Ezio Bosso - Choreography by Thang Dao
Adrift in Softness (2007) - Music by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Choreography by Patrick Delcroix
Week of October January 5, 2009
Featured Video Performance György Ligeti: Artikulation (1958)
Featured Video Performance John Tavener: Ypakoë (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Muczynski: Quintet for Winds (1985) - Allegro risoluto
Featured Ensemble OrchestrUtopica (Portugal)
Featured Festival or Item Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (Kansas City, Missouri, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Intrepid Journeys Lead to Ambitious Works (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times)
Week of October 12, 2009
Featured Video Performance Ge Gan-ru: Fall of Baghdad (String Qt No.5) (2005)
Featured Video Performance Alberto Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2 (1950)
Featured Pytheas Earful Sarah Horick: Equipoise (2006)
Featured Ensemble Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item Swiss Music Edition (Lucerne, Switzerland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past? (Greg Sandow, Andante.com)
Week of October 19, 2009
Featured Video Performance Stephen Paulus: Poemas de Amor (2006)
Featured Video Performance Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, mvt 3, The Alcotts (1916-17)
Featured Ensemble Gageego! (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item Eletronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) (Kansas City, Kansas)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Music of Conviction (James Loader, TimeEurope)
Week of October 26, 2009
Featured Video Performance John Tavener: Svyati (1995)
Featured Video Performance David Sartor: Reveries (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Morneau: Triage Part 1, Opening (2005)
Featured Ensemble SYBARITE5 (New York, New York)
Featured Festival or Item Canadian Music Centre's Audio Gallery
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Marta Ptaszyńska - Portrait in Music (Zbigniew Granat, Polish Daily News)
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September
2009Featured Composers
Erik Satie (1866-1925), French
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), English
Georges Auric (1899-1983), French
William Schuman (1910-1992), American
John Psathas (1966- ), New Zealander
Michael Daugherty (1954- ), American
Robert Rival (1975- ), Canadian
Tom Flaherty (1950- ), American
Charlotte Seither (1965- ), German
Featured Recordings
Benjamin Lees: String Quartet Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (Naxos) also CD Review & sample audio files
Stephen Paulus : To Be Certain Of The Dawn (2005) (BIS) also CD Review & sample audio files
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (1963-67) (Mode Records) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Tan Dun - From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media)
Michael Horwood - The Composer's Chair (Canadian Music Centre)
Christopher Rouse - Interview with Soli Deo Gloria CEO Chandler Branch
Pytheas Sightings
The Heiress (1949) - Music by Aaron Copland - Film by William Wyler
Ben Hur (1959) - Music by Miklos Rozsa - Film by William Wyler
King Lear (1971) - Music by Dmitri Shostakovich - Film by Grigori Kozintsev
Danses Pytheuses
Danses Počtiques - Music by Erik Satie - Choreography by Erik Satie Dance Project
Breathless (2009) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Joseph Cipolla
Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Choreography by Maurice Béjart (1959)
Week of September 1, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto (1954), mvt 1
Featured YouTube Performance John Psathas: Omnifenix (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Schuman: Symphony for Strings (# 5) (1943), mvt 1
Featured Ensemble Ensemble KORE (Montréal, Quebec, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (Victoria, Australia ... and worldwide)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Remembering Arthur Berger (Grant Chu Covell, La Folia)
Week of September 7, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Tom Flaherty: Trio for Cello & Digital Processor (1991)
Featured YouTube Performance Javier Alvarez: Metro Chabacano (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Georges Auric: Notre Dame de Paris, film score (1956)
Featured Ensemble The Robin Cox Ensemble (Santa Barbara, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item souNZ - Centre for New Zealand Music (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Ralph Vaughan Williams and "49th Parallel" (Rolf Jordan, Powill-Pressburger)
Week of September 14, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Erik Satie: Nocturne No. 2 (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance Michael Daugherty: Dead Elvis (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Krzysztof Penderecki: Sinfonietta No. 2 (1994), mvt II
Featured Ensemble Magnetic Band (Young Musician's Society) (Singapore)
Featured Festival or Item sound festival 2009 [October 28 through November 22] (Banchory, Scotland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Joyful and Joyless for the Masses: Auric’s Music for La Rue sans joie (1938) (Colin Roust)
Week of September 21, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Henryk Górecki: Sym No. 3, "Sorrowful Songs" (1976)
Featured YouTube Performance William Schuman: New England Tryptych (1956)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Rival: March from Six Pieces for Piano (2007)
Featured Ensemble Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item New Consonant Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)
Week of September 28, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (1920)
Featured YouTube Performance Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Flute and Strings (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful Christopher Rouse: Ricordanza (1995)
Featured Ensemble New Music Collective (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Percussive Arts Society (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Open Universe (by Jan Vriend)
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August
2009Featured Composers
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Spanish
Luciano Berio (1925- ), Italian
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Swiss
John Corigliano (1938- ), American
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1931- ), American
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Polish
Michel van der Aa (1970- ), Netherlands
David Morneau (1975- ), American
Elaine Fine (1959- ), American
Featured Recordings
Mirjam Tally - "Mirjam Tally" (ARM Music)
George Tsontakis - Violin Concerto No. 2; Clair de Lune; The Past, the Passion (Koch)
Benjamin Lees: String Quartet Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (Naxos)
Composer Portraits
David Lang - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Behzad Ranjbaran - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Pytheas Sightings
L’Idee/The Idea (1934) - Music by Arthur Honegger - Film by Berthold Bartosch
Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared) (2003) - Music by Ezio Bosso - Film by Gabriele Salvatores
The Heiress (1949) - Music by Aaron Copland - Film by William Wyler
Danses Pytheuses
Gnossienne - Music by Erik Satie - Choreography by Chris Bannerman
Shadowed [2007] - Music by Philip Glass - Choreography by Rebecca Dean
Week of August 3, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Michel van der Aa: Memo (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful Paweł Łukaszewski: Hommage á Edith Stein (2002), part I
Featured Ensemble New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Fransico, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item We Are All Mozart (Dennis Báthory-Kitsz)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Digitality of the Opera - Two Cases (Jelena Novak, e-volucija)
Week of August 10, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Manuel de Falla: Fantasía Bética (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance Lee Actor: Horn Concerto (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Rutter: Agnus Dei from Requiem (1985)
Featured Ensemble MAVerick Ensemble (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item American Classical Music Hall of Fame (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Make Your Own Rules: Notes on Composition from John Corigliano (NewMusicBox)
Week of August 17, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance John Corigliano: They Are Always With Me (1991)
Featured YouTube Performance Carlos Chávez: Sinfonía India (1935-36)
Featured Pytheas Earful Luciano Berio: Glosse (1997)
Featured Ensemble Second Instrumental Unit (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item International Alliance for Women in Music (Delaware, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Trilogy With No Prequels (Andy Goldsbrough, Film Score Monthly)
Week of August 24, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Luciano Berio: Sequenza V for trombone (1966)
Featured YouTube Performance Iva Bittova: Ne nehledej (Stop Searching)
Featured Pytheas Earful Oyvind Torvund: Krull Quest (2004)
Featured Ensemble Augenmusik (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Art+Culture
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Springtime in Paris: Les Six (Minnesota Public Radio)
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July
2009Featured Composers
Alban Berg (1885-1935), Austrian
Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Australian-American
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Russian-Soviet
Arthur Berger (1912-2003), American
Dan Locklair (1949- ), American
Dorothy Hindman (1966- ), American
Jesse Ayers (1951- ), American
Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Estonian
John Rea (1944- ), Canadian
Featured Recordings
Henryk Górecki - Requiem Für Eine Polka; etc. (Nonesuch Records)
Meira Warshauer - Like Streams in the Desert (Albany Records)
Mirjam Tally - "Mirjam Tally" (ARM Music)
Composer Portraits
Judith Lang Zaimont - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Gary Kulesha - NACOcast (National Arts Centre of Canada in Ontario), w/Chris Millard
Pytheas Sightings
The Sea Hawk (1940) - Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Film by Michael Curtiz
Suna no onna (Woman in the Dunes) (1964) - Music by Tōru Takemitsu - Film by Hiroshi Teshigahara
L’Idee/The Idea (1934) - Music by Arthur Honegger - Film by Berthold Bartosch
Danses Pytheuses
Relief (2006) - Music by David Morneau - Choreography by Erin Tisdale
We Unfold (2009) - Music by Ezio Bosso - Choreography by Rafael Bonachela
Week of July 6, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Act 3, Sc 2 & 3 (1914-22)
Featured YouTube Performance John Corigliano: The Red Violin Caprice (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Luciano Berio: Sequenza III for soprano (1966)
Featured Ensemble Esprit Orchestra (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item New Music Connects (Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)
Week of July 13, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Alfred Schnittke: Gogol Suite (1978/80)
Featured YouTube Performance Meira Warshauer: Like Streams in the Desert (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dorothy Hindman: Needlepoint (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item Atlantic Music Festival 2009 (Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Kyle Gann: Declining Literacy 1 and Kyle Gann: Declining Literacy 2
Week of July 20, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter (1950)
Featured YouTube Performance Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore (1907)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gary Kulesha: Symphony No. 3 (2007)
Featured Ensemble Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Spatial Music Collective (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas In Search of the Next Great American Opera (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)
Week of July 27, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Richard Danielpour: Souvenirs (2008), 3rd mvt
Featured YouTube Performance Jesse Ayers: Waldstein Express (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Judith Lang Zaimont: The Joy of Dance (1974)
Featured Ensemble Hartford Sound Alliance (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Le Poisson Rouge (New York City, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas "Do Not Take Up Music Unless..." A Composer's Musings (Dan Locklair)
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June
2009Featured Composers
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), Soviet-Russian
Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Polish
Alex North (1910-1991), American
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981), English
Juliet Kiri Palmer (1967- ), New Zealand-Canadian
Robert Wendel (1951- ), American
Maija Hynninen (1977- ), Finnish
Dean Rosenthal (1974- ), American
Featured Recordings
Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Music, Volume 4 (Naxos)
Peter Schickele - Chamber Music (Centaur Records)
Henryk Górecki - Requiem Für Eine Polka; etc. (Nonesuch Records)
Composer Portraits
David Amram - Interview @ New York Views
Paul Moravec - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Steve Reich - From the Mind of a Composer/American Mavericks (Amer. Public Media)
Pytheas Sightings
Ich dzień powszedni (1963) - Music by Tadeusz Baird - Film by Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Pull My Daisy (1959) - Music by David Amram - Film by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie
The Sea Hawk (1940) - Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Film by Michael Curtiz
Danses Pytheuses
Dance of the Elements: Water (2002) - Music by Maurice Ravel - Choreography by Jody Sperling
Love Lies Waiting (2003) - Music by Mark Fitchett - Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
The Miraculous Mandarin (1919) - Music by Béla Bartók - Choreography by Lucinda Childs
Week of June 1, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, mvt. 4 (pt 1) (1937)
Featured YouTube Performance Arvo Pärt: Pari Intervallo (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Juliet Kiri Palmer: W is for (1999)
Featured Ensemble Décadanse (Lunel, France)
Featured Festival or Item Community Music Works (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Fight for Shostakovich (Norman Lebrecht, La Scene Musicale)
Week of June 8, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (pt 1) (1996)
Featured YouTube Performance Béla Bartók: Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, mvt 3 (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dean Rosenthal: Songs from the Japanese (2000)
Featured Ensemble Ex Novo Ensemble (Venice, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item Zu Casa ~ An Online Laboratory
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Turning Circles and Squares Into Noise (Adam Shatz, The New York Times)
Week of June 15, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Tōru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992)
Featured YouTube Performance Bohuslav Martinů: Madrigal No. 2, Violin & Viola (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning, Paragraph 1 (1968-70)
Featured Ensemble NOISE (San Diego, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item soundON Festival of Modern Music (La Jolla, California – June 18-20, 2009)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas 2001: A Space Odyssey - Alex North's Unused Soundtracks (mfiles) see videos 1 2 3 4
Week of June 22, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Michael Daugherty: Ladder to the Moon, mvt I (2006)
Featured YouTube Performance Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7, 3rd mvt (1939/1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful George Crumb: Five Pieces for Piano (1962)
Featured Ensemble ensemble]h[iatus (Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, France)
Featured Festival or Item Happy Nordic Music Days (Oslo, Norway – Aug 19-22, 2009)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Her WWII Love Letter Inspires a Cantata (Channing Gray, The Providence Journal)
Week of June 29, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Nikolai Kapustin: Toccatina op.40, no. 3 (1984)
Featured YouTube Performance Benjamín Gutiérrez: Pavana for Strings (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful Maija Hynninen: Turnings, flute (2008)
Featured Ensemble NYOS Futures (National Youth Orchestras of Scotland)
Featured Festival or Item The Avant Garde Project - Online Audio Resource
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Piano Method by Claude Debussy (Karstein Djupdal)
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May
2009Featured Composers
John Cage (1912-1992), American
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian-Soviet
Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French
Steve Reich (1936- ), American
Franz Waxman (1906-1967), Jewish-German-American
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994), English
Behzad Ranjbaran (1955- ), Iranian
Barry Truax (1947- ), Canadian
Robert Bradshaw (1970- ), American
Featured Recordings
Sonic Encounters - The New Piano/Margaret Leng Tan, piano (Mode Records)
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel & Why Patterns? (New Albion Records)
Composer Portraits
A Conversation with George Crumb (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Terry Riley - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
David Amram - Interview @ New York Views
Pytheas Sightings
Lieutenant Kijé (1933) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev - Film by Aleksandr Fajntsimmer
Commissar (1967) - Music by Alfred Schnittke - Film by Aleksandr Askoldov
Danses Pytheuses
La Muerte de Narciso (The Death of Narcissus) - Music by Luciano Berio (Visage, 1961) - Choreography by [Elsy Contreras]
Variations V (1965) - Music by John Cage - Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Dance of the Elements: Water (2002) - Music by Maurice Ravel - Choreography by Jody Sperling
Week of May 4, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, Part 3 (1974-76)
Featured YouTube Performance Albert Roussel: Joueurs de flűte, Pt.1-3 (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Seppo Pohjola: String Quartet No. 3 (2000)
Featured Ensemble Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item 30th Annual New Music and Art Festival (MidAmerican Ctr for Contemp Music, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composers Mining the Music of Their Youth (Anthony Tommasini, NY Times)
Week of May 11, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance John Cage: Third Construction (1941)
Featured YouTube Performance Barry Truax: Soundscape Vancouver (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Oscar Carmona: Le Jeu Suivant (2007)
Featured Ensemble Libra Ensemble (Melbourne, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item Sounds Underground (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Far From Music Capitals, Ohio Conserv. Fosters Contemp. Sounds (V. Schweitzer, NYTimes)
Week of May 18, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Franz Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Featured YouTube Performance Robert Bradshaw: Concerto for Trumpet, mvt 3 (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No. 5 (1948)
Featured Ensemble Vox21 (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item June in Buffalo 2009 (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey Play New Music (TED)
Week of May 25, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1, mvt 2 (1917)
Featured YouTube Performance Behzad Ranjbaran: Ballade for Solo Contrabasse (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elaine Fine: Serenade for Oboe and Strings (2007)
Featured Ensemble SPANK Music Ensemble (Colorado/Wyoming, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Contemporary Music Festival (Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Problem of Pitch - Seeking a Lasting Repertoire (Samuel Solomon, NewMusicBox)
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April
2009Featured Composers
George Gershwin (1898-1937), American
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Austrian
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940), Mexican
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), American
Shulamit Ran (1949- ), Israeli-American
Johannes Fritsch (1941- ), German
Libby Larsen (1950- ), American
Greg Bartholomew (1957- ), American
Robert Gans (1952- ), American
Featured Recordings
Chen Yi - Momentum (BIS)
Arvo Pärt - Alina (ECM)
Composer Portraits
Alex Shapiro - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Elmer Bernstein - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
A Conversation with George Crumb (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
Pytheas Sightings
Der Brandstifter (The Arsonist) (2003) - Music by Arnold Schoenberg - Film by Ütz Matthias Stocklöw
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) - Music by Bernard Herrmann - Film by Nathan H. Juran
Danses Pytheuses
Trisha Never Left Home (1999) - Music by Alexandros Mouzas - Choreography by Konstantin Mihos
Rodeo, Scene 1, Pt. 1 (1942) - Music by Aaron Copland - Choreography by Agnes de Mille
La Muerte de Narciso (The Death of Narcissus) - Music by Luciano Berio (Visage, 1961) - Choreography by [Elsy Contreras]
Week of April 6, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Zoltán Kodály: Sonata for Cello, op. 8, mvt. 3 (1915)
Featured YouTube Performance Shulamit Ran: Sonatina for 2 Flutes, mvt. 2 (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful Albert Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage, op. 35, no. 2 (1927)
Featured Ensemble Logos Ensemble (Latina, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item New Music Symposium (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music (Nicole V. Gagne, NewMusicBox)
Week of April 13, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Silvestre Revueltas: String Qt No. 4, "Música de Feria", mvt 1 (1932)
Featured YouTube Performance George Crumb: Vox Balaenae, Part I (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Gans: Blue Ballet, mvt IV (2004)
Featured Ensemble IU New Music Ensemble (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana)
Featured Festival or Item SOUNZ/Centre for New Zealand Music (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Composer's Art (James Fry, Musical Composition Resource)
Week of April 20, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Libby Larsen: Cowboy Songs (1979)
Featured YouTube Performance Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, part I (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful Amy Scurria: La Loba (2008)
Featured Ensemble Quatuor Hęlios (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item Pendulum New Music (University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Composer's Century (Philip Glass, Andante.com)
Week of April 27, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Aaron Jay Kernis: Lament and Prayer, Part I (1996)
Featured YouTube Performance Greg Bartholomew: The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan) (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Psathas: Zahara, Part I (2005)
Featured Ensemble Ruckas (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Music Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Aulis Sallinen, Strong and Simple (Martin Anderson, Finnish Music Quarterly)
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March
2009Featured Composers
Arvo Pärt (1935- ), Estonian
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), French
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Austrian
Leo Brouwer (1939- ), Cuban
Jean Langlais (1907-1991), French
Michael Horwood (1947- ), Canadian-American
Ken Ueno (1970- ), American
Beth Wiemann (1959- ), American
Alexandros Mouzas (1962- ), Greek
Featured Recordings
Pawel Lukaszewski - Choral Music (Hyperion Records)
Elliott Schwartz - Hall of Mirrors; Crystal; Kaleidoscope; Rain Forest with Bird (Innova Recordings)
Leo Brouwer - Guitar Music, Volume 1 (Naxos)
Composer Portraits
Libby Larsen - Composer Portrait @ Kalvos and Damian
Hans Zimmer - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Alex Shapiro - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Pytheas Sightings
On the Waterfront (1956) - Music by Leonard Bernstein - Film by Elia Kazan
The Red Violin (1998) - Music by John Corigliano - Film by François Girard
Les yeux sans visage (1960) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by Georges Franju
Danses Pytheuses
Wet Woman (1995) - Music by Fläskkvartetten - choreography by Mats Ek
Lamentation (1930) - Music by Zoltán Kodály - Choreography by Martha Graham
Trisha Never Left Home (1999) - Music by Alexandros Mouzas - Choreography by Konstantin Mihos
Week of March 2, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Ken Ueno: Shiroi Ishi (2001)
Featured YouTube Performance Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Sonata, op. 80, mvt 4 (1938/1946)
Featured Pytheas Earful Vincent Persichetti: Night Dances, op. 114 (1970)
Featured Ensemble oenm (Austrian Ensemble for Contemporary Music)
Featured Festival or Item Contemporary Music in Croatia (William A Everett, Central Europe Review)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)
Week of March 9, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Anton Webern: Three Little Pieces, op. 11 (1914)
Featured YouTube Performance Olivier Messiaen: The Word (1935)
Featured Pytheas Earful Bernard Herrmann: The Road & Finale from Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Featured Ensemble Millenium Chamber Players (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Contemporary Music Festival 2009 (Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas In Memoriam: George Perle (Steven L. Rosenhaus, NewMusicBox)
Week of March 16, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Arvo Pärt: Da pacem domine, from "In Principio" (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance Wojciech Kilar: Orawa (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alexandros Mouzas: Asma Asmaton (2008)
Featured Ensemble Klangrorum Wein (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item Waxiderny
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Sermon on the Life and Music of Jean Langlais (Colin Spinks, St. Mary le Strand)
Week of March 23, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Jean Langlais: Plainte from Suite Brčve (1947)
Featured YouTube Performance Anton Webern: Fünf Sätze, op. 5, mvt 1 (1909)
Featured Pytheas Earful Beth Wiemann: Slow Burn (2005)
Featured Ensemble New Music Collective (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
Featured Festival or Item PRS Foundation for New Music (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Be Still, & Know That I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred (Martha Ainsworth)
Week of March 30, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Olivier Messiaen: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (Little Sketches of Birds) (1985)
Featured YouTube Performance Leo Brouwer: un dia de noviembre (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Benjamin Lees: Piano Concerto No. 2, mvt 3 (1966)
Featured Ensemble Motion Ensemble (Fredericton, NB, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Ars Musica (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter?
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February
2009Featured Composers
Roger Sessions (1896-1985), American
Philip Glass (1937- ), American
John Williams (1932- ), American
André Jolivet (1905-1974), French
Judith Zaimont (1945- ), American
Dmitri Tymoczko (1969- ), American
Clermont Pépin (1926-2006), Canadian
Amy Scurria (1973- ), American
Kazimierz Serocki (1922-1981), Polish
Featured Recordings
Pēteris Vasks - Musica adventus (1995/96); Viatore (2001); Concerto for English horn (1989) (Wergo)
Michael Horwood - National Park Suite; Symphony No. 1; Intravariations; Amusement Park Suite
Pawel Lukaszewski - Choral Music
Composer Portraits
Peter Schickele - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Philip Glass - The Composer's Voice/American Mavericks (American Public Media)
Pytheas Sightings
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by David Lean
The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Music by Elmer Bernstein - Film by John Sturges
On the Waterfront (1956) - Music by Leonard Bernstein - Film by Elia Kazan
Danses Pytheuses
La vida breve (1905) & El amor brujo (1914-15/1925) - Music by Manuel de Falla
In the Upper Room (1986) - Music by Philip Glass - Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Week of February 2, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967)
Featured YouTube Performance Andre Jolivet: Second Trumpet Concerto, mvt 3 (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karl Henning: Out in the Sun (2006)
Featured Ensemble Land’s End Chamber Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Sound Investments: The Commissioning Portfolio of Kathryn Gould (M. Sheridan, NewMusicBox)
Week of February 9, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Roger Sessions: Duo for Violin and Piano, mvt 1 (1942)
Featured YouTube Performance Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (1915)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dmitri Tymoczko: Echo Code (2003)
Featured Ensemble ZAGROS (Helsinki, Finland)
Featured Festival or Item Louth Contemporary Music Society (Loth, Ireland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Three Questions Before the First Night (Carson Cooman, Music & Vision)
Week of February 16, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Leo Brouwer: The Sky, the Air and a Smile (1979)
Featured YouTube Performance Benjamin Britten: 6 Metamorphosis after Ovid - Narcissus (1951)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kazimierz Serocki: Suite of Preludes - Affettuoso (1952)
Featured Ensemble ensemble cairn (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item ERMMedia/numusic direct (Norfolk, Virginia, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)
Week of February 23, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Charles Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces - I. Largo (1904-1914/1924)
Featured YouTube Performance Alan Hovhaness: Lousadzak op. 48, "The Coming of Light" (1944)
Featured Pytheas Earful Judith Zaimont: Impronta Digitale (1999)
Featured Ensemble Talea Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Arts Electric (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Roger Sessions and the Dilemma of Contemporary Classical Music (Charles Hamm, NMB)
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January
2009Featured Composers
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American
Elliott Schwartz (1936- ), American
Daniel Dorff (1956- ), American
Bernadette Speach (1948- ), American
Maurice Jarre (1924- ), French
Oscar Carmona (1975- ), Chilean
Reza Vali (1952- ), Iranian
Jon Leifs (1899-1968), Icelandic
Featured Recordings
Paul Moravec - Chamber Symphony; Autumn Song; Cool Fire (Naxos)
Alan Hovhaness - Guitar Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 63 (Naxos)
Pēteris Vasks - Musica adventus (1995/96); Viatore (2001); Concerto for English horn (1989) (Wergo)
Composer Portraits
Aaron Jay Kernis - The Composer's Voice (John Zech, Minnesota Public Radio)
Jennifer Higdon - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Pytheas Sightings
The Piano (1993) - Music by Michael Nyman - Film by Jane Campion
Spartacus (1960) - Music by Alex North - Film by Stanley Kubrick
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by David Lean
Danses Pytheuses
Amelia (2002) - Music by David Lang - Choreography by Édouard Lock
Romeo and Juliet (1935/36) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Week of January 5, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Arvo Pärt: Fratres (1977/1980)
Featured YouTube Performance Manuel de Falla: Homenaje (Le tombeau de Debussy) (1920)
Featured Pytheas Earful Reza Vali: Folk Songs, Set No. 9 (1991)
Featured Ensemble E3Q (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Music from Other Minds (KALW, 91.7 FM, San Fransisco, CA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Alvin Lucier on "Music On A Long Thin Wire" (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)
Week of January 12, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Igor Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for Clarinet, mvt 1 (1919)
Featured YouTube Performance Nico Muhly: The Reader, selections (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Schwartz: Chamber Concerto II (1977)
Featured Ensemble The Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Fransisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Internet Archive (San Fransisco, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Jón Leifs: Iceland's Santified Son (Alda Sigmundsdotti, Scandinavian Review)
Week of January 19, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Jón Leifs: Hekla, op. 52 (1961)
Featured YouTube Performance Bernadette Speach, et al: baj - For Leroy (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Lieberson: Rilke Songs (2001)
Featured Ensemble Hebrides Ensemble (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Featured Festival or Item the livingroom.org (Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Igor Stravinsky and the Making of a Love Triangle (Natalie Shearer, Classical Music Pages)
Week of January 26, 2009
Featured YouTube Performance Leonard Bernstein: Serenade for Violin (1954)
Featured YouTube Performance Osvaldo Golijov: Lullaby and Doina (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jón Leifs: Requiem, op. 33b (1947)
Featured Ensemble Wet Ink (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Estonian Music Days (Tallinn, Tartu & Pärnu, Estonia)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Magical Hidden Corners of Erik Satie (Matthew Westphal, andante.com)
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December
2008Featured Composers
Leos Janácek (1854-1928), Czech
Aaron Copland (1900-1990), American
Henryk Gorecki (1933- ), Polish
Robert Muczynski (1929- ), American
Michael Colgrass (1932- ), American
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000), Canadian
Meira Warshauer (1949- ), American
Qu Xiao-Song (1952- ), Chinese
Tom Myron (1959- ), American
Featured Recordings
Karen Amrhein - Still Life (MMC Recordings)
Kalevi Aho - Symphony No. 12 "Luosto" (BIS Recordings)
Geoffrey Bush - A Christmas Cantata (Saydisc)
Paul Moravec - Chamber Symphony; Autumn Song; Cool Fire (Naxos)
Composer Portraits
An Interview with Steven Stucky (The New York Philharmonic, via The New York Times)
Meira Warshauer - Living, Breathing Earth (Aileen LeBlanc, Living on Earth)
Pytheas Sightings
La Belle et La Bęte (1946) - Music by Georges Auric - Film by Jean Cocteau
The Shining (1980) - Krzysztof Penderecki: Polymorphia (1961) - Film by Stanley Kubrick
A Christmas Carol (1938) - Music by Franz Waxman - Film by Edwin L. Marin
The Piano (1993) - Music by Michael Nyman - Film by Jane Campion
Danses Pytheuses
The Red Detachment of Women (1964) - Music by Du Mingxin, et al
Diversion of Angels (1949) - Music by Norman Dello Joio - Choreography by Martha Graham
Week of December 1, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Michael Colgrass: Old Churches (2000)
Featured YouTube Performance Leos Janácek: Concertino for Piano - I. Moderato (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Muczynski: Six Preludes for Piano, op. 6, nos. 1 & 6 (1953-54)
Featured Ensemble Sirius String Quartet (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Young Composers Program (Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Voices in the Dark - The Music of Alfred Schittke (Adrian Searle, The Guardian)
Week of December 8, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques, part I (1956)
Featured YouTube Performance Aaron Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano, first movement (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Coulthard: Sketches from the Western Woods (1970) - The Silent Pool
Featured Ensemble Duo46 (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Meet the Composer (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Qu Xiao-Song - A Master of Tense Silence (Yingying, CRIEnglish.com)
Week of December 15, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus, op. 60 (1987)
Featured YouTube Performance Arnold Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19 (1911)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tom Myron: Symphony No. 2, part 3, vivid flying (2000)
Featured Ensemble NODUS Ensemble (Florida Int'l University, Miami, Florida,USA)
Featured Festival or Item composersnewpencil.com - Music Composition and Technology
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Jean Coulthard - A Life in Music (A Book Review by J. Drew Stephen, CAML Review)
Week of December 22, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Cantata (1957)
Featured YouTube Performance Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (1912)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gustav Holst: Christmas Day (1910)
Featured Ensemble Turning Point Ensemble (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (Bowling Green University, Ohio)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Die Natali, chorale Christmas preludes for orchestra, Op. 37 (All Music Guide)
Week of December 29, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F, third movement (1925)
Featured YouTube Performance John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Colgrass: Déjŕ Vu (1977)
Featured Ensemble Concorde (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item Sonic Fusion Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Chasing a Music That Didn’t Exist - Harrison Birtwistle (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
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November
2008Featured Composers
Gustav Holst (1874-1934), English
John Adams (1947- ), American
Karel Husa (1921- ), Czech-American
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Lee Actor (1952- ), American
Gia Comolli (1965- ), American
Boris Levenberg (1950- ), Israeli
Gary Kulesha (1954- ), Canadian
Mason Bates (1977- ), American
Featured Recordings
Aaron Jay Kernis - Symphony in Waves (Cedille Records)
Charles Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets (Naxos Records)
Karen Amrhein - Still Life (MMC Recordings)
Composer Portraits
John Adams - An American Portrait
Daniel Dorff - An Audio Portrait (ASCAP Network Audio Portraits)
Pytheas Sightings
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - Music by Philip Glass - Film by Godfrey Reggio
La Belle et La Bęte (1946) - Music by Georges Auric - Film by Jean Cocteau
Week of November 3, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Grażyna Bacewicz: Sonata for Solo Violin, No.2, Finale (1958)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry (1992)
Featured Ensemble Arraymusic (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Maerz Musik 2009 (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Symphonic Alchemist: Kulesha transforms human experience into music (R. Rival, SOCAN)
Week of November 10, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Karel Husa: Divertimento for Brass and Percussion (1958)
Featured YouTube Performance Krzysztof Penderecki: Credo (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gustav Holst: Nunc Dimittis (1915)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble MoEns (Unetice, Czech Republic)
Featured Festival or Item Sante Fe New Music (Sante Fe, New Mexico)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Concerto for Two Universes - Music of Mason Bates (by Donna Perlmutter, LA Times)
Week of November 17, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Alfred Schnittke: String Trio (1985)
Featured YouTube Performance David Lang: Monogrammed (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gary Kulesha: Horn Trio (2004)
Featured Ensemble Collage New Music (Boston, MA)
Featured Festival or Item Pictures of Music (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas "like raindrops we have dispersed all over the immense world ..." an interview with Karel Husa
Week of November 24, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance John Williams: Soundings (2003)
Featured YouTube Performance Gustav Holst: This have I done for my true love (1916)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tom Myron: Kathe Kollwitz, Part I (1998)
Featured Ensemble Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Pictures of Music (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer & Quartet Educate & Entertain (C. Hyde, Maine Sunday Telegram)
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October
2008Featured Composers
Chen Yi (1953- ), Chinsese
David Fennessy (1976- ), Irish
Jacques Hétu (1938- ), Canadian
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French
Kile Smith (1956- ), American
Harold Stover (1946- ), American
Steven Stucky (1949- ), American
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Japanese
Ellen Taffee Zwilich (1939- ), American
Featured Recordings
Chen Yi - Sparkle (New World Records)
Reza Vali - Persian Folklore (New Albion Records)
Aaron Jay Kernis - Symphony in Waves (Cedille Records)
The Composer Speaks
John Adams - An American Portrait
Week of October 1, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Toru Takemitsu: Air for Solo Flute (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Lisa Hogan: Three Pieces for Piano (2006)
Featured Ensemble Flucrum Point (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Geometry of Music (Michael D. Lemonick, Time)
Week of October 6, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Francis Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor (1932)
Featured Pytheas Earful Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians, I. Pulses (1976)
Featured Ensemble Brave New Works (Ann Arbor, MI)
Featured Festival or Item Métisse Music (Paris, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Chen Yi - Composer speaks her own language (Emily Brown, Accent, Ithaca College)
Week of October 13, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Jacques Hétu: Finale from Suite for Guitar, op. 41 (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dmitri Tymoczko: The Eggman Variations, I (2005)
Featured Ensemble Brave New Works (Ann Arbor, MI)
Featured Festival or Item Frog Peak Music, Composers' Collective (Lebanon, NH)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Kile Smith - Ensembles Unite in an Ambitious "Vespers" (David P.Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer)
*** Special Feature: Kile Smith Interview with David P. Stearns - Streaming Audio
Week of October 20, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Chen Yi: Spring Dreams (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jorge Liderman: Draft (1998)
Featured Ensemble The Smith Quartet (Great Britain)
Featured Festival or Item creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Gallic Ghost Story
Week of October 27, 2008
Featured YouTube Performance Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Lament (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dorothy Hindman: Trembling (1998)
Featured Ensemble Arraymusic (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Métisse Music (Paris, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Bold, Brash Cello Symphony (Michael Walsh, Time Magazine)
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May
2008Featured Composers
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Tan Dun (1957- ), Korean
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet/Russian
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Czech
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American
Featured Recordings
Lee Actor - Violin Concerto (Albany Records TROY 1017)
Week of May 5, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful Ronald J. Brown: My Garden Flourishes Beneath the Frozen Earth
Featured Ensemble FIGURA - Music/Theater/Opera
Featured Festival or Item creative-eclipse.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Innovative Women Composers: Chen Yi
Week of May 12, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful Perttu Haapanen: Saxophone Concerto (2003)
Featured Ensemble dčdalo ensemble (Brescia, Italy)
Featured Festival or Item Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music: International Computer Music Conference, August 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Schoenberg's 2nd String Quartet - The Day Music Went Mad (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Week of May 19, 2008 [same]
Week of May 26, 2008 [same]
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April
2008Featured Composers
Karen Amrhein (1970- ), American
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Tan Dun (1957- ), Korean
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931- ), Soviet/Russian
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959), Czech
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995), Hungarian-American
Aulis Sallinen (1935- ), Finnish
Edgard Varese (1883-1965), American
Featured Recordings
Hi Kyung Kim - Crystal Drops (Albany Records TROY 1002)
Week of April 21, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful Tom Guralnick: Slides Peak (1994)
Featured Ensemble Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item Primavera Festival at the University of California at Santa Cruz, April 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas What is a Piece of Music? (Adam Frey, San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players Blog)
Week of April 28, 2008
Featured Pytheas Earful Tom Guralnick: Slides Peak (1994)
Featured Ensemble Third Coast Percussion Quartet (Chicago, IL)
Featured Festival or Item Primavera Festival at the University of California at Santa Cruz, April 2008
Featured Thoughts & Ideas What is a Piece of Music? (Adam Frey, San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players Blog)
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Pytheas Sightings Archive - New Music in Film
Danses Pytheuses - New Music for Dance
Sound Art - New Electroacoustic Music
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Pytheas Featured Ensembles
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
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