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Featured Archive 2010

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


Current Pytheas Featured Archive  -  here

2010
Jan    Feb    Mar    April    May    June    July    Aug    Sept    Oct    Nov    Dec

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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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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
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August 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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 2010
Featured 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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