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Pytheas New Music Video Archive
Pytheas Earful Archive - New Music Streaming Audio
Pytheas Recordings Archive - New Music on Records
Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
Pytheas Opera Archive - New Music for 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
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
Pytheas Earful Archive - New Music Streaming Audio
Pytheas Recordings Archive - New Music on Records
Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
Pytheas Opera Archive - New Music for 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
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
Current Pytheas Featured Archive - here
2010
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December 2010
Featured Composers
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), American
Alfred Newman (1901-1970), American
M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), Brazilian
Henri Dutilleux (1916- ), French
Ennio Morricone (1928- ), Italian
Peter Sculthorpe (1929- ), Australian
Paul Schoenfield (1947- ), American
Roxanna Panufnik (1968- ), British
Jeni Hawkswell (1983- ), British
Featured Recordings
John Corigliano: Of Rage And Remembrance; Symphony No. 1(RCA) also CD Review & sample audio files
Kile Smith: Vespers (Navona) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Morton Subotnick @ NAMM
David Maslanka Shares His Thoughts on Music
Pytheas Sightings
Burke & Wills (1985) - Music by Peter Sculthorpe - Film by Graeme Clifford
Entr'acte (1924) - Music by Erik Satie - Film by René Clair
A Week in the Life of a Man (1999) - Music by Wojciech Kilar - Film by Jerzy Stuhr
Danses Pytheuses
Glass Concerto for Violin (2009) - Music by Philip Glass - Choreography by Thang Dao
Petrushka (1911) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Bolshoi Ballet Company
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
François Bayle: Eros Bleu (1979)
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy (1960)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
David Gillingham: Supercell (2005)
Michael Colgrass: Three Brothers (l951)
Week of December 6, 2010
Featured Video Performance Peter Sculthorpe: Jabiru Dreaming (1989)
Featured Video Performance Elliott Schwartz: Collage Concertante (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henri Dutilleux: Figures de résonances (1970-76)
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Schoenfield: Ufaratsta (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jeni Hawkswell: Small Russian Reverb (2006)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Offspring (Balmain, NSW, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item Network for New Music (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Origin of the Opera Satyagraha (Philip Glass @ Garrison Institute)
Week of December 13, 2010
Featured Video Performance David Maslanka: Recitation Book (2006)
Featured Video Performance Edgard Varčse: Density 21.5 (1936)
Featured Pytheas Earful Georges Auric: Une valse for Two Pianos (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful Libby Larsen: Overture: Parachute Dancing (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ken Ueno: Ga-uah-Chon-Ch-cha (a Song of the Rapture) (2006)
Featured Ensemble 175 East (Waitakere, New Zealand)
Featured Festival or Item Essentials of Music - 20th Century Music (SONY/W.W. Norton)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Peter Sculthorpe at 80 (University of Sydney)
Week of December 20, 2010
Featured Video Performance Kile Smith: Vespers (2008) (beginning)
Featured Video Performance John Gardner: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (1965)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfred Schnittke: Silent Night (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Rutter: Christmas Lullaby (1990)
Featured Pytheas Earful Osvaldo Golijov: Una Madre Comió Asado (from "Ayre") (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ossia (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Boston Microtonal Society (Boston, MA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Sound of Spirit (Arthur Lubow, The New York Times)
Week of December 27, 2010
Featured Video Performance Roxanna Panufnik: Abraham (2004)
Featured Video Performance M. Camargo Guarnieri: Piano Sonatina No. 1 (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henry Cowell: Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Cello, and Harpsichord (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elena Ruehr: Stars, from "lullabies and spring songs" (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Steven Stucky: Second Concerto for Orchestra (2003), "Finale"
Featured Ensemble Voices of Change, New Music Ensemble of Dallas (Dallas, TX, USA)
Featured Festival or Item White Box (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas I Feel As If I See Music (Andras Lindner, HVG/Worldpress.org)
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November
2010Featured Composers
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish
Robert Starer (1924-2001), Austrian-American
Samuel Adler (1928- ), American
Alvin Lucier (1931- ), American
Morton Subotnick (1933- ), American
Ofer Ben-Amots (1955- ), Israeli-American
Gregory Hall (1959- ), American
Tarik Ghiradella (1970- ), American
Gabriela Lena Frank (1972- ), American
Featured Recordings
Richard Maxfield & Harold Budd: The Oak of the Golden Dreams (New World Records) also CD Review & sample audio files
Henri Dutilleux: Concertos and Works for Orchestra (EMI) also CD Review & sample audio files
John Corigliano: Of Rage And Remembrance; Symphony No. 1(RCA) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Leonard Rosenman: Interview with Charles Amirkhanian
William Schuman - Composer Portrait (from Theodore Presser)
Aaron Copland @ BBC Four/Composer Interviews
Pytheas Sightings
The House of Spirits (1993) – Music by Hans Zimmer – Film by Bille August
Dragonwyck (1946) - Music by Alfred Newman - Film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Burke & Wills (1985) - Music by Peter Sculthorpe - Film by Graeme Clifford
Danses Pytheuses
Seven Beauties Ballet (1952) - Music by Gara Garayev - Choreography by P. A. Gusev
Reflections I (2007) - Music by Miro Magloire - Choreography by Miro Magloire
Ballet Danzon No. 2 (1994) - Music by Arturo Marquez - Choreography by Alberto Terrero & Medalis Saumell
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils and Golden Sand (1967)
Morton Subotnick: Passages of the Beast (1978)
Robert Ashley: She Was a Visitor (1967)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
David Skidmore: Ritual Music (2004)
David Maslanka: Variations on Lost Love (1997)
David Gillingham: Supercell (2005)
Week of November 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance Ofer Ben-Amots: The Dybbuk (2007)
Featured Video Performance Carl Orff: Die Kluge - Scene der drei Strolche (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful Benjamin Lees: Piano Sonata No. 4: Adagio (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful George Tsontakis: The Dove Descending (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Heather Schmidt: Blue Moon, from "Lunar Reflections" (2008)
Featured Ensemble TorQ Percussion Quartet (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Piero Scaruffi's Music Database
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Next Wave of Finnish Comtemporary Music (Finnish Consulate General, Finland.org)
Week of November 8, 2010
Featured Video Performance Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Featured Video Performance Da Jeong Choi: Cantus Curatio IV (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Starer: Evanescence for Brass Quintet (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Olly Wilson: Of Visons and Truth (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stefan Weisman: Restless Legs (2006)
Featured Ensemble Eleonor Sandresky - Choreographic Pianist/Composer (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Äänen Lumo - Festival For New Sounds (Helsinki, Finland) - Nov 8-14 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas "I didn't realize I was sitting next to the composer . . ." (John Adams, earbox.com)
Week of November 15, 2010
Featured Video Performance Alvin Lucier: Music for a Solo Performer (1965)
Featured Video Performance Ástor Piazzolla: Bandoneón Concerto (1979), mvt I
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Schoenfield: Slovakian Children's Songs (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Samuel Adler: Viola Concerto (1999): Movement I
Featured Pytheas Earful Alexandra Gardner: New Skin (2004)
Featured Ensemble Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble (Boston, MA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Women in Music (. . . on the Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Escaping the Nutcracker Suite: Composing for 21st Century Piccolo(Lois B. Herbine, NewMusicBox)
Week of November 22, 2010
Featured Video Performance Gabriela Lena Frank: Danza Peruana (2008)
Featured Video Performance Elmer Bernstein: A Musical Tribute
Featured Pytheas Earful William Walton: Passacaglia for Cello (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tarik Ghiradella: Cenotaph (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gregory Hall: Hardanger (2005)
Featured Ensemble Talisker Players (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Shaper of American Music, and Musicians (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)
Week of November 29, 2010
Featured Video Performance Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain . . . (1970)
Featured Video Performance Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives (1917)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Sculthorpe: Requiem for Solo Cello (1979), mvts 1 & 2
Featured Pytheas Earful Joan Tower: Wings (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful J. Anthony Allen: Tears of Eros (2002)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Aleph (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item Arizona Friends of Chamber Music - Commissioning Program (Tucson, AZ, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer Jennifer Higdon and Violinist Hilary Hahn (@ The PBS NewsHour)
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October
2010Featured Composers
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977), British
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), Italian-American
Richard Maxfield (1927-1969), American
Claude Baker (1948- ), American
Osvaldo Golijov (1960- ), Argentine
Iva Bittová (1958- ), Czech
Tansy Davies (1973- ), British
Jon Forshee (1975- ), American
Joshua DeScherer (1977- ), American
Featured Recordings
Pigs Could Fly: 20th-Century Music for Children's Choir (Naxos 8.572113) also CD Review & sample audio files
Judith Shatin: Tower of the Eight Winds (Innova 770) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Zoltán Kodály - On Music Education
Judith Shatin – Interview @ Pytheas
Pytheas Sightings
Gaslight (1944) - Music by Richard Addinsell - Film by George Cukor
Before and After (1996) - Music by Howard Shore - Film by Barbet Schroeder
Danses Pytheuses
The Prodigal Son (1929) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev - Choreography by George Balanchine
The Swan from "Carmina Burana" (1937) - Music by Carl Orff - Choreography by Fernand Nault
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)
Morton Subotnick: Sidewinder (1971)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Christopher Rouse: Ogoun Badagris (1976)
Eric Whitacre: Sleep (2000)
Week of October 4, 2010
Featured Video Performance Osvaldo Golijov: Omaramoor (1991)
Featured Video Performance Alex Shapiro: Vista (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful Richard Maxfield: Amazing Grace (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful Roger Sessions: Concerto for Orchestra (1979/81), Prima parte
Featured Pytheas Earful John Forshee: Songlines (2001)
Featured Ensemble Cristin Wildbolz, double bass (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item Minnesota Orchestra's Composer Institute (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Indie and Modern Classical Music: The Quixotic Links (Tom Service, guardian.co.uk)
Week of October 11, 2010
Featured Video Performance Gian Carlo Menotti: The Black Swan from "The Medium" (1946)
Featured Video Performance Ofer Ben-Amots: The Klezmer Concerto (2006), mvt I
Featured Pytheas Earful Gustav Holst: Brook Green Suite (1933), Air
Featured Pytheas Earful Iannis Xenakis: Herma (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful Bruce Roter: Three Short Songs, No. 1 - The Sun (1992)
Featured Ensemble ensemble Intégrales (Hamburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item AfriClassical.com & africlassical.blogspot.com
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Long Island Music Hall of Fame Announces Third Induction Gala
Week of October 18, 2010
Featured Video Performance Iva Bittová: Déšť (Rain) (2006)
Featured Video Performance Arthur Honegger: Concertino for Piano & Orch (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Coulthard: The Bird of Dawning Singeth All Night Long (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Harbison: 2 Songs from "Mirabai Songs" (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tansy Davies: neon (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Aventure (Freiburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Tzadik Records (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Turn It Up: Jonathan Harvey on Concert Audiences and Amplification (Music Matters)
Week of October 25, 2010
Featured Video Performance Iva Bittová: Déšť (Rain) (2006)
Featured Video Performance Arthur Honegger: Concertino for Piano & Orch (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Coulthard: The Bird of Dawning Singeth All Night Long (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Harbison: 2 Songs from "Mirabai Songs" (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tansy Davies: neon (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Aventure (Freiburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Tzadik Records (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Turn It Up: Jonathan Harvey on Concert Audiences and Amplification (Music Matters)
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September 2010Featured Composers
Dominick Argento (1927- ), American
Seóirse Bodley (1933- ), Irish
Laurie Spiegel (1945- ), American
Anne LeBaron (1953- ), American
Javier Alvarez (1956- ), Mexican
David Rakowski (1958), American
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- ), American
Alexandra Gardner (1967- ), American
Kenji Bunch (1973- ), American
Featured Recordings
Sofia Gubaidulina: The Deceitful Face of Hope ...; Sieben Worte (BIS 1449) also CD Review & sample audio files
Wojciech Kilar: Piano Concerto and other works (Naxos 8.557813) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Arvo Pärt Talks About “Für Elina”
Bright Sheng: Uncommon Sense - An Interview with Junia Doan
Zoltán Kodály - On Music Education
Pytheas Sightings
Taras Bulba (1962) - Music by Franz Waxman - Film by J. Lee Thompson
Tablemat of Baltic Sea (2006) - Music by Mirjam Tally - Film by Ülo Pikkov
Danses Pytheuses
Appalachian Spring (1944) - Music by Aaron Copland - Choreography by Martha Graham
Elegy: Snow in June (1991) - Music by Tan Dun: Elegy - Choreography by Allyson Green
The Prodigal Son (1929) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev - Choreography by George Balanchine
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Richard Maxfield: Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterfiles Encountered Over The Ocean) (1959)
Earle Brown: Four Systems for Four Amplified Cymbals (1964?)
Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Lou Harrison: Varied Trio (1987) - Bowl Bells
Miles Okazaki: Rotations (2009)
Week of September 6, 2010
Featured Video Performance Dominick Argento: Letters from Composers: Schumann (1968)
Featured Video Performance Tōru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful Albert Roussel: Piano Concerto (1927), 2nd mvt: Adagio
Featured Pytheas Earful Oscar Carmona: Cygnus X1 (2003)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jonathan Elliott: Field Music: Ash (2005)
Featured Ensemble Meridian Arts Ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Unknown Composers (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Laurie Spiegel: Pioneer in Interactive Music & Video Software (Bill Murphy, Electronic Musician)
Week of September 13, 2010
Featured Video Performance Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove (1974)
Featured Video Performance Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata (1949), 4th mvt
Featured Pytheas Earful Arnold Schoenberg: Quintett, op. 26 (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Schwartz: Souvenir (1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alexandra Gardner: Luminoso (2003)
Featured Ensemble One World Symphony (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Roulette/contemporary performance spaces
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Finding Their Voice (Bret McCabe, Peabody Magazine)
Week of September 20, 2010
Featured Video Performance Alexandra Gardner: Bloom (2009)
Featured Video Performance Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra (1931)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kazimierz Serocki: Segmenti (1960-61)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ken Ueno: ...blood blossoms... (2002)
Featured Ensemble The Playground (Denver, Colorado, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Music from Japan (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Urban Disaster: The Opera (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Week of September 27, 2010
Featured Video Performance David Rakowski: Clave (Etude No. 76) (2007)
Featured Video Performance John Cage: Sonata for Prepared Piano No. 1 (1949)ensemble Intégrales (Hamburg, Germany)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gian Carlo Menotti: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful Luciano Berio: The Cries of London (1974/75)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anne Lebaron: Sestina of Visions, from Pope Joan (2000)
Featured Ensemble Imani Winds (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item 44th Annual Contemporary Music Festival (Indiana State University) (Terre Haute, IN)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Endless Scale: Computer Composers and Microtonalists Expand Musical Experience
(Doug Garr, Nick Spencer Design)
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August
2010Featured Composers
Ferde Grofé (1892-1972), American
Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), American
Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- ), American
Don Dilworth (1939- ), American
Karl Jenkins (1944- ), Welsh
Alejandro Vińao (1951- ), Argentinian
Elena Ruehr (1963- ), American
John Aylward (1980- ), American
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- ), Polish
Featured Recordings
The American Cello - Concertos by Barber, Chen Yi, & Ranjbaran (Albany 648) also CD Review & sample audio files
Barbara Harbach: Vocal Music (MSR 1256) also CD Review & sample audio files
Isang Yun : Chamber Music (Capriccio 67116) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Ástor Piazzolla - Interview with Charles Amirkhanian (KPFA's Speaking Of Music)
Karlheinz Stockhausen Interview with Lawrence Pollard
Arvo Pärt Talks About “Für Elina”
Pytheas Sightings
Prophecy (1979) - Music by Leonard Rosenman - Film by John Frankenheimer
Solar Crisis (1990) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by Richard C. Sarafian
How Green Was My Valley (1941) – Music by Alfred Newman – Film by John Ford
Danses Pytheuses
Echoes (2004) - Music by Elena Ruehr - Choreography by Rebecca Rice Dance
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven (1993) - Music Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Ulysses Dove
Appalachian Spring (1944) - Music by Aaron Copland - Choreography by Martha Graham
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studie II (Elektronische Musik) (1954)
Mauricio Kagel: Acustica (1968-70)
Richard Maxfield: Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterfiles Encountered Over The Ocean) (1959)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John Psathas: Etude (part 1 of “One Study One Summary”) (2005)
Philip Glass: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists & Orchestra, mvt 3 (2000)
Morton Feldman: The King of Denmark (1964)
Week of August 2, 2010
Featured Video Performance Javier Alvarez: Temazcal (1984)
Featured Video Performance Elena Ruehr: Toussaint L'Ouverture's Aria (2003)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alban Berg: Lyric Suite (1925-26)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfred Schnittke: Stille Musik (Silent Night) (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Aylward: Reciprocal Accord (2009)
Featured Ensemble Chicago Modern Orchestra Project (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Portland Chamber Music Fesitval (Portland, Maine, USA) - Aug 12-21, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Aaron Copland Talks About Film Music (Roger Hall, Soundtrack)
Week of August 9, 2010
Featured Video Performance Tan Dun: Zheng Concerto (1999)
Featured Video Performance Karl Jenkins: Kyrie, from "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ernst Bacon: Gnaw Bone, Indiana (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful Don Dilworth: The Sick Rose (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alex Shapiro: Deep (2004)
Featured Ensemble Xanthos Ensemble (Watertown, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Experimental Music Catalogue
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Perception, Reception, and All That Popular Music (Sean Bellaviti, discouses.ca)
Week of August 16, 2010
Featured Video Performance Edgard Varčse: Offrandes (1921)
Featured Video Performance Alejandro Vińao: Khan Variations (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Sibelius: The Tempest (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dan Locklair: Toccata, from "In Mystery and Wonder" (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Bark: Reminiscence (2006)
Featured Ensemble Atlas Ensemble (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item La Biennale di Venezia Int'l Festival of Contemporary Music (Venice, Italy) - (Sept 23 - Oct 2, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer in Natural State of Creativity (Mike Giuliano, Towson Times)
Week of August 23, 2010
Featured Video Performance Arvo Pärt: Für Elina (1976)
Featured Video Performance Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola) (1959)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andre Jolivet: Suite en Concert Pour Flute et Percussion (1965): Modere
Featured Pytheas Earful Alejandro Vińao: Chant d'Ailleurs (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jakub Ciupinski: Strings and Cords (2005?)
Featured Ensemble Kairos Quartet (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Flanders Music Centre (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Shah-Nameh's Rostam & Sohrab: Something to Sing About (Shahram Sadri, The Iranian)
Week of August 30, 2010
Featured Video Performance Ferde Grofé: Sunrise, from Grand Canyon Suite (1931)
Featured Video Performance John Cage: In a Landscape (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful Francis Poulenc: Les Chemins de l’Amour (1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful Cindy McTee: Soundings (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Morneau: Hesitation (2008)
Featured Ensemble Ruckas (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Festival ARS Electronica (Linz, Austria)/Sept 2 - 11, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Americana as Muse: Q&A with Michael Daugherty (MySpace.com Blogs)
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July
2010Featured Composers
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), French
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004), American
Benjamin Lees (1924-2010), American
Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), English
Andrew List (1956- ), American
Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), American
Karim Al-Zand (1970- ), Canadian-American
Albert Schnelzer (1972- ), Swedish
Kinan Azmeh (1976- ), Syrian
Featured Recordings
Witold Lutosławski/Henri Dutilleux: Works for Cello and Orchestra (BIS 1777) also CD Review & sample audio files
Marilyn Shrude: Shadows and Dawning (Albany 526) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Joan Tower Interview (La Jolla Music Society)
Michael Daugherty - Interview (Pendulm New Music Series)
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Film by Jean-Luc Godard
Rocket Ship X-M (1950) - Music by Ferde Grofé - Film by Kurt Neumann
Prophecy (1979) - Music by Leonard Rosenman - Film by John Frankenheimer
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Les noces (1917) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Choreography by Bronislava Nijinska
Lux Underwater (2007) - Music by David Aks - Kujo's Lux Aeterna Dance Company
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Pierre Schaeffer: Etude Noire (1948)
Pierre Henry : Apocalypse de Jean (1968)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas (1994)
Week of July 5, 2010
Featured Video Performance Delia Derbyshire: Sea - from 4 Inventions for Radio (1964)
Featured Video Performance Karim Al-Zand: Capriccio (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Erik Satie: Descriptions automatiques (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ferde Grofé: Kentucky Derby Suite (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mason Bates: Rodeopteryx (1999)
Featured Ensemble Musiqa (Houston, Texas, USA)
Featured Festival or Item SEAMUS on-line (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Radiophonic Ladies (Jo Hutton, Sonic Arts Network)
Week of July 12, 2010
Featured Video Performance Jacques Ibert: Flute Concerto (1934), 3rd mvt
Featured Video Performance Kinan Azmeh: The Gilgamesh Project (2006), excerpt
Featured Pytheas Earful Bernard Herrmann: The City of Brass, a melodram (1934)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andrew List: Soliloquoy, from Six Bagatelles for String Trio (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jennifer Higdon: String Poetic - Jagged Climb (mvt 1) (2006)
Featured Ensemble Tm+ (Nanterre, France)
Featured Festival or Item sfSound (San Fransisco, CA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Bernard Herrmann and Musical Topography (Joe Horowitz, The Unanswered Question)
Week of July 19, 2010
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2, op.67 (1944)
Featured Video Performance Andrew List: Mystical Journey (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elmer Bernstein: Theme from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful Reza Vali: Calligraphies: No. 2 – Allegro (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mirjam Tally: Call Love to Mind (2009)
Featured Ensemble Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (University of Montreal, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) - Sept/Oct 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 (Margalit Fox, The New York Times)
Week of July 26, 2010
Featured Video Performance Benjamin Lees: Fantasia (1954)
Featured Video Performance Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Hope (Beauty) (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Arthur Honegger: Pastorale d'été (1920)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karel Husa: Relentless Machine, from “3 Studies for Clarinet” (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful Adrienne Albert: Doppler Effect (1998)
Featured Ensemble red fish blue fish (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Portland Chamber Music Fesitval (Portland, Maine, USA) - Aug 12-21, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Saxophone Comes of Age (John-Edward Kelly)
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June
2010Featured Composers
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), American
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956), English
George Crumb (1929- ), American
Michael Nyman (1944- ), British
Marilyn Shrude (1946- ), American
Paul Moravec (1957- ), American
Jonathan Elliott (1962- ), American
Daniel Sonenberg (1970- ), American
Heather Schmidt (1974- ), Canadian
Featured Recordings
Michael Horwood - Percussionique (Albany 1122) also CD Review & sample audio files
Virgil Thomson - Heaven Is Music (Albany 1166) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Michel van der Aa on the opera "After Life"
Virgil Thomson - An Interview with Charles Amirkhanian
Bohuslav Martinů - On His Life and Music
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Music by David Amram - Film by Elia Kazan
Macbeth (1948) - Music by Jacques Ibert - Film by Orson Welles
Je Vous Salue, Sarajevo (1993) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Film by Jean-Luc Godard
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Sinfonietta (1926/1980) - Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Jiri Kylian
Four Reasons (2008) - Music by Milko Lazar - Choreography by Edward Clug
En Closures (2007) - Music by Andrew List - Choreography by Rebecca Rice
Week of June 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance George Crumb: Solo Cello Sonata (1955)
Featured Video Performance Paul Moravec: Mortal Flesh (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Olivier Messiaen: Eclairs sur l'au-delŕ Delŕ (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Colgrass: The Schubert Birds (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Daniel Sonenberg: Whistlesparks, flute and harp (2006)
Featured Ensemble Beijing New Music Ensemble (Beijing, China)
Featured Festival or Item Sigma Alpha Iota - Contemporary American Composers
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Michael Nyman on Being an Accidental Filmmaker (Chris Broughton, Culture24)
Week of June 7, 2010
Featured Video Performance Michael Nyman: Trysting Fields (1988)
Featured Video Performance Dominick Argento: Winter (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Maurice Ravel: Trois počmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 8 (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Heather Schmidt: Solus (1996)
Featured Ensemble QNG: Quartet New Generation (Stuttgart, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item ACA (American Composers Alliance) June Festival 2010: Sudden Music, June 15-19, 2010
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Summer King (Paul Moro, UmpBump.com)
Week of June 14, 2010
Featured Video Performance Gerald Finzi: Grand Fantasia and Toccata (1928/1953)
Featured Video Performance Kenji Bunch: Suite for Viola and Piano (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alban Berg: Piano Sonata (1908)
Featured Pytheas Earful Samuel Barber: Overture to "The School for Scandal" (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jonathan Elliott: Odd Preludes (2000)
Featured Ensemble Fear No Music (Portland, Oregon, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Music (Buffalo, NY)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Bring Your Imagination: Musiqa Goes Beyond the Abstract (Nancy Wozny, CultureMap)
Week of June 21, 2010
Featured Video Performance Luciano Berio: La vera storia (1981), prima parte
Featured Video Performance John Cage: Sonata No. 5 for Prepared Piano (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carl Nielsen: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59 (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jacques Hétu: Symphony No. 5 (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Edward Wright: Twr (2009)
Featured Ensemble Just In Time Composers and Players (Boston, Massachusetts)
Featured Festival or Item Bowdoin Summer Music Festival/ Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music (Brunswick, Maine, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Is the Free Dissemination of Music on the Web Ultimately Helpful or Harmful to the Economics
of New Music? (Richard Danielpour, NewMusicBox)
Week of June 28, 2010
Featured Video Performance Ástor Piazzolla: Tango Etudes 1 & 3 (1987)
Featured Video Performance Albert Schnelzer: Solitude (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Heitor Villa-Lobos: Piano Concerto No. 5 (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Delia Derbyshire: John Peel’s Voice (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kinan Azmeh: Dream (2007)
Featured Ensemble SOLI Chamber Ensemble (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
Featured Festival or Item New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Quebec Composer Jacques Hétu Dies (CBC News)
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May
2010Featured Composers
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), German
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975), American
Isang Yun (1917-1995), Korean-German
Terry Riley (1935- ), American
Nikolai Kapustin (1937- ), Soviet-Russian
John Rutter (1945- ), British
Cindy McTee (1953- ), American
Tracey Rush (1955- ), American
Ezio Bosso (1971- ), Italian
Featured Recordings
Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music, Volume 1 (Naxos) also CD Review & sample audio files
Elliott Schwartz: Voyager - Five Orchestral Works (Albany Records) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Jennifer Higdon - Being Creative in Philadelphia (PBS)
Osvaldo Golijov – Boston Symphony Interview
Michel van der Aa on the opera "After Life"
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
El signo de la muerte (1939) - Music by Silvestre Revueltas - Film by Chano Urueta
Memorias de Lucía (2003) - Music by Leo Brouwer - Film by Carlos Barba
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2004) - Music by Amaury Groc - Black Moon Theatre Co. (Rene Migliaccio, Artistic Director)
Fancy Free (1944) - Music by Leonard Bernstein - Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Sinfonietta (1926/1980) - Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Jiri Kylian
Week of May 3, 2010
Featured Video Performance Arnold Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw (1947)
Featured Video Performance Cindy McTee: Circuits (1990)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gustav Holst: Lyric Movement for Viola and Chamber Orch (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jennifer Higdon: An Exaltation of Larks (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Rival: Red Moon (2007)
Featured Ensemble New Century Chamber Orchestra (San Fransico, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item ARS ELectronica (Linz, Austria)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas John Rutter: The Churches' Court Composer (Bendis & Westermeyer, Christian Century)
Week of May 10, 2010
Featured Video Performance John Rutter: The Lord is My Shepherd (1978)
Featured Video Performance People Inside Electronics - Inaugural Concert Oct 2009
Featured Pytheas Earful Milton Babbitt: Vision and Prayer (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful Terry Riley: Two Piano Pieces (1959)
Featured Pytheas Earful Sarah Horick: Deleted Scenes (2008), mvt VII
Featured Ensemble New Music Works (Santa Cruz, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Festival of Contemporary Music (Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Finest Living Composer You've Never Heard Of (Wayne Lee Gay, Andante.com)
Week of May 17, 2010
Featured Video Performance Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik (1936)
Featured Video Performance Iva Bittová: Divna slecinka (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Edgard Varčse: Octandre (1923)
Featured Pytheas Earful Morton Feldman: For Stefan Wolpe (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too (2009)
Featured Ensemble Klangforum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
Featured Festival or Item The Pacific Contemporary Music Center (California State University, Los Angeles, CA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer Isang Yun - A Conversation with Bruce Duffie (bruceduffie.com)
Week of May 24, 2010
Featured Video Performance Isang Yun: Duo for Cello and Harp (1984)
Featured Video Performance Leroy Anderson: Blue Tango (1951)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun (c. 1912)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nikolai Kapustin: Impromptu, op. 66, no. 2 (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kile Smith: As Kingfishers Catch Fire (2000)
Featured Ensemble ensemble chronophonie (Freiburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Highpoint Music '10 (Woodstock, New York , May 23-26, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Discovering the Music of Ptaszyńska (Jennifer Carnig, Chicago Chronicle)
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April 2010Featured Composers
Milton Babbitt (1916- ), American
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English
Krystof Penderecki (1933- ), Polish
Kurt Weill (1900-1983), German
George Tsontakis (1951- ), American
Hans Zimmer (1957- ), German
Christopher John Marshall (1956- ), New Zealander
Cecilia McDowall (1951- ), English
Victoria Borisova-Ollas (1969- ), Russian
Featured Recordings
André Jolivet: Piano Music, Volumes 1 & 2 (Maguelone) also CD Review & sample audio files
Golijov: La Pasión según San Marcos (St. Mark Passion) (2000) (DG) also CD Review & sample audio files
Rhapsodic Musings — 21st Century Works For Solo Violin (Cedille Records) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Aaron Copland and the American Sound (San Franciscon Symphony & PBS)
Krzysztof Penderecki Documentary (Classical TV)
Jennifer Higdon - Being Creative in Philadelphia (PBS)
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
Mesmer (1994) – Music by Michael Nyman – Film by Roger Spottiswoode
The Silencers (1966) - Music by Elmer Bernstein - Film by Phil Karlson
Yumechiyo Nikki (1981) - Music by Tōru Takemitsu - Film by Yukio Fukamachi
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Smoke (Solo for Two) (1995) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Mats Ek
6 Breaths (2010) - Music Ezio Bosso - Choreography by Rafael Bonachela
Kafka's The Metamorphosis (2004) - Music by Amaury Groc - Black Moon Theatre Co. (Rene Migliaccio, Artistic Director)
Week of April 5, 2010
Featured Video Performance Milton Babbitt: String Quartet No. 4 (1970), part one
Featured Video Performance Cecilia McDowall: First Rehearse (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins - Anger (1933)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Sospeso (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Störung Festival 5.0 (Barcelona, Spain) (April 21-24, 2010)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Settling Some Old Scores (Greg Sandow)
Week of April 12, 2010
Featured Video Performance Penderecki: Quartet for Cl, Vln, Viola & Cello (1993)
Featured Video Performance Scott Joplin: Treemonisha (1911) – Real Slow Drag
Featured Pytheas Earful Miklos Rozsa: Ben Hur (1959) - Overture
Featured Ensemble Gageego (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Sound of Philosophy (Dmitri Tymoczko, The Boston Review)
Week of April 19, 2010
Featured Video Performance George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 2 (2003)
Featured Video Performance Stravinsky: The Rakes Progress (1951) - Anne's Aria
Featured Pytheas Earful Christopher Marshall: Hikurangi Sunrise (2000)
Featured Ensemble East Coast Contemporary Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item CONTEMPORARY MUSIC - The Frech Gateway to Contemporary Music Resources
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Speaking of Music: Alex Ross’s 20th Century (Christopher Lydon, Radio Open Source)
Week of April 26, 2010
Featured Video Performance Hans Zimmer: Sherlock Holmes (2009)- Discombobulate
Featured Video Performance Zoltán Kodály: Háry János (1926) - Intermezzo
Featured Pytheas Earful Cecilia McDowall: Laudate (2008) - Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus
Featured Ensemble Ensemble TIMF (Tongyeong, South Korea)
Featured Festival or Item People Inside Electronics (PIE): Brand New and Classic Electroacoustic Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Behind the Mystique: Kurt Weill and 1920s Berlin (Jessica Balik, San Francisco Classical Voice)
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March 2010Featured Composers
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), German
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967), Hungarian
Howard Shore (1946- ), Canadian
Bright Sheng (1955- ), Chinese
Frank Ticheli (1958- ), American
David Lang (1957- ), American
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), American
Judith Shatin (1949- ), American
António Chagas Rosa (1960- ), Portuguese
Featured Recordings
Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music (Dacapo 6.220518) also CD Review & sample audio files
Victoria Borisova-Ollas: Selected Works (Phono Suecia 171) also CD Review & sample audio files
André Jolivet: Piano Music, Volumes 1 & 2 (Maguelone) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Frank Ticheli - Talks About His Life and Music (Artist House Music)
Hans Zimmer - Talks About His Music
Aaron Copland and the American Sound (San Franciscon Symphony & PBS)
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
A Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - New Film Score by Michael Nyman - Film by Dziga Vertov
Ransom (1996) - Rejected Music by Howard Shore - Film by Ron Howard
Mesmer (1994) – Music by Michael Nyman – Film by Roger Spottiswoode
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Polyphonia (2001) - Music by György Ligeti - Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
The Grey Area (2002) - Music by Niels Lanz - Choreography by David Dawson
Smoke (Solo for Two) (1995) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Mats Ek
Week of March 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance Karlheinz Stockhausen: Stimmung (1968)
Featured Video Performance Judith Shatin: Rotunda (2009), excerpt
Featured Pytheas Earful György Ligeti: Hungarian Rock (1978)
Featured Ensemble San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Carnegie Hall Performance Guide/Bartók String Quartets
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Bright Lights on a Powerful Woman (James L. Paulk, New Music Connoisseur)
Week of March 8, 2010
Featured Video Performance Bright Sheng: 7 Tunes Heard in China - Little Cabbage & Seasons
Featured Video Performance Dan Locklair: Symphony of Seasons: Autumn (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Richard Belcastro: Caution, Rip Current (2005)
Featured Ensemble Post-Classical Ensemble (Washington, DC, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Norway Cultural Profile (Cultural Profiles Project)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Free Your Mind And Your Ears Will Follow (Charles Michener, New York Observer)
Week of March 15, 2010
Featured Video Performance Zoltán Kodály: Esti Dal (Evening Song)
Featured Video Performance Adrienne Albert: Musescapes - For My Mother (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Carter: Au Quai (2002)
Featured Ensemble ensemble FA (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item London Wireless Soundscape Project (London, England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Sounding Off - VA Computer Music Ctr is Making Noise (Laura Parsons, UVA Magazine)
Week of March 22, 2010
Featured Video Performance Victoria Borisova-Ollas: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2007)
Featured Video Performance Lou Harrison: Canticle No. 3 (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful Heitor Villa-Lobos: Distribuçao de Flores (1937)
Featured Ensemble Curious Chamber Players (Stockholm, Sweden)
Featured Festival or Item WHITE BOX (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Speaking Your Own Language - An Interview with Wojciech Kilar (Agnieszka Flakus, pljournal)
Week of March 29, 2010
Featured Video Performance Iannis Xenakis: Claviers, from Pleiades (1978)
Featured Video Performance Aaron Copland: Conversation by the Soda Fountain (1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful Amy Scurria: Adaptations (2007)
Featured Ensemble Luna Nova New Music Ensemble (Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
Featured Festival or Item June in Buffalo 2010 - 35th Anniversary (Buffalo, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Performer Drawn to the Piano's Wild Side (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
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February 2010Featured Composers
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Austrian
Elliott Carter (1908- ), American
John Harbison (1938- ), American
David Amram (1930- ), American
Rudolf Růžička (1941- ), Czech
Paul Witney (1973- ), Australian
Da Jeong Choi (1973- ), Korean
Stefan Weisman (1970- ), American
Featured Recordings
Judith Lang Zaimont: Pure Colors (Albany 785) also CD Review & sample audio files
Seóirse Bodley: A small white cloud drifts over Ireland (RTÉ LYRIC FM CD121) also CD Review & sample audio files
Carl Nielsen: Orchestral Music (Dacapo 6.220518) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Iannis Xenakis Talks with Harry Halbreich
Gwyneth Walker: In Her Own Words (Vermont Symphony Orchestra)
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) - Music by Virgil Thomson - Film by Pare Lorentz
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Film by Michael Curtiz
A Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - New Film Score by Michael Nyman - Film by Dziga Vertov
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
Two (2009) - Music by Stefan Weisman - Choreography by Deborah Lohse
Viduity (excerpt) (2007) – Music by Leoš Janáček – Choreography by Constantine Baecher
Week of February 1, 2010
Featured Video Performance Da Jeong Choi: Top of the Mountain (2009) 1st mvt
Featured Video Performance Tilo Medek: Abfahrt einer Dampflokomotive
Featured Pytheas Earful Paweł Łukaszewski: String Quartet No. 3, part I (2004)
Featured Ensemble Chamber Music Now! (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Sound and Music (United Kingdom)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Origins: How does An Opera Come About (Karren Alenier, Scene4 Magazine)
Week of February 8, 2010
Featured Video Performance Elliott Carter: Oboe Concerto (1987)
Featured Video Performance Béla Bartók: Piano Sonata (1926), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful David Laganella: Under Ethereal (2007)
Featured Ensemble Newspeak (New York, New York, USA) also at MySpace Music
Featured Festival or Item CrossSound (Juneau, Alaska)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Electronic Music in Eastern Europe, Chapter 5 (Jorge Munnshe, amazings.com)
Week of February 15, 2010
Featured Video Performance David Amram: Triple Concerto (1970), 3rd mvt
Featured Video Performance Bruce Roter: Double Concerto for Cl, Cello and Orch (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nino Rota: “Oh mio tesor” from La notte di un nevrastenico (1950)
Featured Ensemble PRISM Quartet (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Iannis Xenakis @ The Drawing Center
Featured Thoughts & Ideas John Harbison: The Pope's Composer (Jeremy Baskin, The Tech Online)
Week of February 22, 2010
Featured Video Performance George Crumb: Black Angels (1970)
Featured Video Performance Elliott Carter: Cello Sonata (1948), mvt 4
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Witney: Zero Through Nine (1997)
Featured Ensemble Ne(x)tworks (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Muzsikás and Béla Bartók (Louis Proyect)
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January
2010Featured Composers
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Danish
Norman Dello Joio (1913-2008), American
Iannis Xenakis (1922- ), Greek
Earl Kim (1920-1998), American
Wojciech Kilar (1932- ), Polish
Arturo Márquez (1950- ), Mexican
Svitlana Azarova (1976- ), Ukrainian
Gwyneth Walker (1947- ), American
Mark Gresham (1956- ), American
Featured Recordings
Nino Rota: Symphony Nos. 1 & 2 (Chandos 10546) also CD Review & sample audio files
Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Music, Marc-Andre Hamelin (Hyperion 67433) also CD Review & sample audio files
Judith Lang Zaimont: Pure Colors (Albany 785) also CD Review & sample audio files
Composer Portraits
Stephen Paulus talks with Alison Young (Minnesota Public Radio)
Seóirse Bodley Interviewed on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday (Contemp. Music Centre Ireland)
Pytheas Sightings - Contemporary Music in Film
The Da Vinci Code (2006) - Music by Hans Zimmer - Film by Ron Howard
Portrait of a Lady (“The Kiss”) (1996) - Music by Wojciech Kilar - Film by Jane Campion
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) - Music by Virgil Thomson - Film by Pare Lorentz
Danses Pytheuses - Contemporary Music for Dance
The Traitor (1955) - Music by Gunther Schuller - Choreography by José Limón
Night Winds (2007) - Music by Charles Tomlinson Griffes - Choreography by Jody Sperling
Week of January 4, 2010
Featured Video Performance Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto (1926)
Featured Video Performance Sarah Horick: Looking Glass Changes (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Bernard Herrmann: Concerto Macabre (1944/1972)
Featured Ensemble Perspectives Ensemble (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Tura New Music (Perth, Australia)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas To Sing Is to Fly (American Choral Directors Association, North Central Division)
Week of January 11, 2010
Featured Video Performance Iannis Xenakis: Synaphaď (1969)
Featured Video Performance Arturo Márquez: Los Sueńos/Dreams (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful Earl Kim: Now & Then - Roundelay (1981)
Featured Ensemble Quiet Music Ensemble (Cork, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item American Classical Music Hall of Fame (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Arturo Márquez: The Folk Spirit in Orchestral Music (Luis Rumbaut, Latin Amer. Folk Institute)
Week of January 18, 2010
Featured Video Performance Svitlana Azarova: Outvoice, Outstep and Outwalk (2004)
Featured Video Performance Jean Langlais: 5 Pičces, no. 1 (1974)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alexandros Mouzas: Toy and Tango from Trisha Never Left Home (1999)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Phoenix Basel (Basil, Switzerland)
Featured Festival or Item GRAME (Lyon, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Subtext for Deepening Confusions: Steve Reich at 70 (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Week of January 25, 2010
Featured Video Performance Bright Sheng: The Stream Flows (1990)
Featured Video Performance Gwyneth Walker: Don't Step On My Toes (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stefan Weisman: SuperSoft (2007)
Featured Ensemble I(a contemporary music ensemble (Berea, Ohio, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (Istanbul, Turkey)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Unique And Exhilerating Symphonies of Danish Composer Carl Nielsen (The Horn)
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