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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
2011
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December
2011Featured Composers
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990), Australian
Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001), New Zealander
Joan Tower (1938- ), American
Fred Frith (1949- ), English
Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinese
Evan Ziporyn (1959- ), American
Christopher Theofanidis (1967- ), American
Edward Ficklin (1974- ), American
Kati Agócs (1975- ), Canadian
Featured Recordings
Christopher Theofanidis: Symphony No. 1 (ASO Media 1002) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
John Williams - On Scoring "Saving Private Ryan"
Melinda Wagner: On Composing for Orchestra
Pytheas Sightings
Bosse & ABC-monstren (2002) - Music by Mikael Karlsson - Film by Anna Högberg
Race With the Devil (1975) - Music by Leonard Roseman - Film by Jack Starrett
Danses Pytheuses
The Lucy Poems (2007) - Music by David Lang - Choreography by Deborah Lohse
Turning in the Widening Gyre (1999) - Shostokovich [8th String Quartet] - Choreography by Paul Mosley
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Cheng Chin Man: Amalgamation (2004)
Elizabeth Hoffman: Vissera (2010)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Mitchell Peters: A la nañigo (1967)
John H. Beck: Overture for Percussion Ensemble (1976)
Week of December 5, 2011
Featured Video Performance Joan Tower: Wild Purple (1998)
Featured Video Performance Zhou Long: Wu Ji (1991)
Featured Pytheas Earful Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (1935)
Featured Pytheas Earful George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children (1970)
Featured Pytheas Earful David T. Little: Valuable Natural Resources (2004)
Featured Ensemble New European Ensemble (The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item Latin American Music Center (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Minimalism (Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Week of December 12, 2011
Featured Video Performance Christopher Theofanidis: Rainbow Body (2000)
Featured Video Performance Luigi Nono: Con Luigi Dallapiccola (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Walton: Viola Concerto, 3rd mvt (1929)
Featured Pytheas Earful Douglas Lilburn: Symphony No. 3 (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful Fred Frith: Still/Urban (2004), excerpt
Featured Ensemble Radius Ensemble (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Suntory Music Foundation (Japan)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Search for Tradition by Douglas Lilburn/Review (Lyell Cresswell, New Zealand Listener)
Week of December 19, 2011
Featured Video Performance Kati Agócs: John Riley (2005)
Featured Video Performance Christopher Rouse: Ricordanza (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Gymnopedie No. 1 (1934; rev. 1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful Seóirse Bodley: The Tightrope Walker Presents a Rose (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Evan Ziporyn: Breathing Space (2003)
Featured Ensemble Talujon Percussion Quartet (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Music of the 21st Century (DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Peggy Glanville Hicks Address (Simone Young, The Australian)
Week of December 26, 2011
Featured Video Performance Kati Agócs: John Riley (2005)
Featured Video Performance Christopher Rouse: Ricordanza (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Gymnopedie No. 1 (1934; rev. 1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful Seóirse Bodley: The Tightrope Walker Presents a Rose (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Evan Ziporyn: Breathing Space (2003)
Featured Ensemble Talujon Percussion Quartet (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Music of the 21st Century (DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Peggy Glanville Hicks Address (Simone Young, The Australian)
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November
2011Featured Composers
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Italian
Mitchell Peters (1935- ), American
Ulf Grahn (1942- ), Swedish
Alice Shields (1943- ), American
Christopher Rouse (1949- ), American
Andersen Viana (1962- ), Brazilian
Amy Beth Kirsten (1972- ), American
Nathan Kolosko (1975- ), American
Judd Greenstein (1979- ), American
Featured Recordings
Chen Yi: Sound Of The Five (New World Records 80691) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Kati Agócs - On Composing Vessel
Chen Yi Interview @ Kansas City Symphony
Amy Beth Kirsten Interview
Pytheas Sightings
The Rainmaker (1956) - Music by Alex North - Film by Joseph Anthony
Vivalma (Living Soul) (2003) - Music by Andersen Viana - Film by Rubens R. Câmara
Bosse & ABC-monstren (2002) - Music by Mikael Karlsson - Film by Anna Högberg
Danses Pytheuses
Eight Pieces: Fanfares & March (2010) – Music by Lowell Liebermann – Choreography by C. Neil Parsons
Orbo Novo (2009) - Music by Szymon Brzóska - Choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Maxwell's Demon (1988-90) - Music by Richard Einhorn - Choreography by Ulysses Dove
The Lucy Poems (2007) - Music by David Lang - Choreography by Deborah Lohse
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma (1999)
Douglas Lilburn: Glass Music (1971)
Mario Davidovsky: Electronic Study No. 1 (1961)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
David Skidmore: Fanfare for a New Audience (2009)
John Cage: A Flower (1950)
Mitchell Peters: A la nañigo (1967)
Week of November 1, 2011
Featured Video Performance Amy Beth Kirsten: World Under Glass No. 1 (2011)
Featured Video Performance Wojciech Kilar: Piano Concerto (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Luigi Dallapiccola: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful Christopher Rouse: Gorgon (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andersen Viana: El Desierto (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble itinéraire (Paris, France)
Featured Festival or Item Nordic Sound Art (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Musical Advocate (Karen McCally, Univ. of Rochester Gazette)
Week of November 7, 2011
Featured Video Performance Christopher Rouse: Flute Concerto (1993), final mvt
Featured Video Performance Arvo Pärt: Silentium - part 2 of "Tabula Rasa" (1977)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kurt Weill: Berlin im Licht (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ulf Grahn: A Due (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dorothy Hindman: I Have Heard... (1993/1996)
Featured Ensemble Exaudi - Vocal Ensemble (UK)
Featured Festival or Item Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK) - November 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Conversation with Morton Feldman & Kevin Volans
Week of November 14, 2011
Featured Video Performance Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonata (1 pt, "Fandangos y Boleros") (1990)
Featured Video Performance Ulf Grahn: Who’s Knocking (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Joan Tower: Fantasy... those harbour lights (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful Judd Greenstein: Sing Along (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mikael Karlsson: Nilon (2006)
Featured Ensemble VOX - Contemporary American Opera Lab (New York City Opera, New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item CAP (Concordia Archival Project) (CEC/Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composers in Waiting, Well, Wait (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
Week of November 21, 2011
Featured Video Performance Luigi Dallapiccola: Ist's moeglich (1953)
Featured Video Performance Igor Stravinsky: In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karel Husa: Elegie et rondeau (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stephen Cohn: Serenade (2006)
Featured Ensemble Contact Contemporary Music (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Walter Simmons (Port Chester, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Four Innovative Composers Sound Off: 25 Questions (Glenn Branca, The New York Times)
Week of November 28, 2011
Featured Video Performance Henri Dutilleux: Choral et Variations, from Sonate (1948)
Featured Video Performance Robert Carl: Garland (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anton Webern: Three Songs, op. 18 (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful Leroy Anderson: Piano Concerto (1953), finale
Featured Pytheas Earful Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegia Andina (Andean Elegy) (2000)
Featured Ensemble Jeffrey Krieger, electric cello (Connecticut, USA)
Featured Festival or Item NewMusicBox (web magazine of The American Music Center)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas World’s Longest String Quartet – Morton Feldman: String Quartet (II) (Flux Quartet)
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October
2011Featured Composers
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), German/Jewish/American
Mikis Theodorakis (1925- ), Greek
Thea Musgrave (1928- ), Scottish
Michael Gordon (1956- ), American
Daron Hagen (1961- ), American
Richard O. Burdick (1961- ), American
Michael Rose (1971- ), American
Gyan Riley (1977- ), American
Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), American
Featured Recordings
Graeme Koehne: Orchestral Works (Naxos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
George Tsontakis: Piano Quartet Trilogy (Koch 7550) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Pierre Boulez - Interview
Mazzoli on Mazzoli: Mobtown Modern's New Music Dialogues
Kati Agócs - On Composing Vessel
Pytheas Sightings
Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987) - Music by Frank Zappa ["Dupree's Paradise"] – Film by Bruce Bickford
Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Music by Danny Elfman - Film by Tim Burton
Danses Pytheuses
Night Bird (1996) - Music by Karen Tanaka - Choreography by Sara Seger
Chroma (2006) - Music by Joby Talbot - Choreography by Wayne McGregor
Eight Pieces: Fanfares & March (2010) – Music by Lowell Liebermann – Choreography by C. Neil Parsons
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
François Bayle: Solitioude (1969)
Steve Reich: Pendulum Music (1968)
Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma (1999)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
William Ortiz-Alvarado: The Well-Tempered Clave (La Clave Bien Temperada) (2003)
Ney Rosauro: Toccata and Divertimento, op. 32 (2000)
Week of October 3, 2011
Featured Video Performance Daron Hagen: Str Qt No. 2, "Alive in a Moment" (2003)
Featured Video Performance Amy Scurria: Listen Friends (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Thea Musgrave: Night Music (1968)
Featured Pytheas Earful Annie Gosfield: Freud (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Fred Frith: Lelekovice (2005), 6th mvt
Featured Ensemble Victoire (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item SoundNotion.tv
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Austin of Indie Classical - Columbia’s Cool New Music Scene (Patrick Wall, Free Times)
Week of October 10, 2011
Featured Video Performance Stefan Wolpe: Form for Piano (1959)
Featured Video Performance Lowell Liebermann: Piccolo Concerto (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Bolcom: Dream Shadows Rag (1971)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jon Forshee: Currents (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gernot Wolfgang: Common Ground (2004)
Featured Ensemble Quatuor Bozzini (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Canadian New Music Network (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas On the Myth of “Difficult” Music (George Grella, ClassicalTV)
Week of October 17, 2011
Featured Video Performance Gyan Riley: Food for the Bearded (1999)
Featured Video Performance Geoffrey Gordon: TRIO (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Béla Bartók: Cantata Profana (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Amram: American Dance Suite (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Todd Goodman: Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra (2008) and here
Featured Ensemble Soundstream Collective (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item Dallas Festival of Modern Music (Dallas, Texas, USA) - November 2-6, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Women Make Music (Juliana Farha, Two Words)
Week of October 24, 2011
Featured Video Performance Thea Musgrave: Niobe (1987)
Featured Video Performance Jacques Ibert: Chansons de Don Quichotte (1932)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henry Cowell: Six Ings (1922)
Featured Pytheas Earful Meira Warshauer: Sh'ma v'ahavta, from "Ahavah" (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kati Agócs: Hymn (2005)
Featured Ensemble QC New Music Group (Flushing, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item UbuWeb (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Opera Lady Who Likes it Crazy (Zachary Woolfe, New York Observer)
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September
2011Featured Composers
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978), Mexican
Louise Talma (1906-1996), American
Pierre Boulez (1925- ), French
Karl Korte (1928- ), American
William Ortiz-Alvarado (1947- ), Puerto Rican
Graeme Koehne (1956- ), Australian
Karen Tanaka (1961- ), Japanese
Geoffrey Gordon (1968- ), American
Delvyn Case (1974- ), American
Featured Recordings
Tansy Davies - Troubairitz (nonclassical CD) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Graeme Koehne: Orchestral Works (Naxos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Derek Bermel: Interview with Lianne Hansen/NPR
Peter Schickele - Composer Portrait
Pierre Boulez - Interview
Pytheas Sightings
Ivan the Terrible (1944) – Music by Sergei Prokofiev – Film by Sergei Eisenstein
Blow (2007) - Music by Mirjam Tally - Film by Ülo Pikkov
Danses Pytheuses
Mémoires d'Oubliettes (2010) - Music by Dirk Haubrick - Choreography by Jirí Kylián
Maa (1991) - Music by Kaija Saariaho - Choreography by Luca Veggetti
Night Bird (1996) - Music by Karen Tanaka - Choreography by Sara Seger
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Richard Maxfield: Amazing Grace (1960)
John Aylward: Autobiography (2005)
François Bayle: Solitioude (1969)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Mark Ford: Polaris (1995)
Joseph Blaha: The Night Watch - I. Death's Gathering (2000)
Week of September 5, 2011
Featured Video Performance Jesse Ayers: Jericho (2005)
Featured Video Performance Graeme Koehne: Str Qt 3, "True History of the Kelly Gang’"(2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Louise Talma: Let's Touch the Sky (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karl Korte: String Quartet No. 2 (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Geoffrey Gordon: Immanuel from Reliquary (2010)
Featured Ensemble sfSoundGroup (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Soundings (Austrian Cultural Forum London) (England)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Whitacre's Way (Adam Baer, UNLV Magazine)
Week of September 12, 2011
Featured Video Performance Joaquín Rodrigo: Tonadilla (1959)
Featured Video Performance Beth Anderson: Magnificat (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Arthur Berger: Five Pieces for Piano (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Ortiz-Alvarado:Urbanización (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Pierre Boulez: ...explosant-fixe... (1993 version)
Featured Ensemble 21st Century Consort (Washington, DC, USA)
Featured Festival or Item 2011 Bowling Green New Music Festival: "Method in Madness" - October 12-15, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Reflections on Carlos Chávez After His Death (Lou Harrison & Aaron Copland, Internet Archive)
Week of September 19, 2011
Featured Video Performance Karen Tanaka: Sweet Violet, from Jardin des Herbes (1989)
Featured Video Performance Kazimierz Serocki: Sonatina for Trombone and Piano (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Hindemith: Cello Concerto (1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful Missy Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andrew List: Noa Noa, A Gauguin Tableau (2008), mvt 1
Featured Ensemble Slowind Wind Quintet (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Featured Festival or Item Sound (Banchory, Scotland) - October/November 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Year In Music: Indie Classical Blossoms On Small Labels (Tom Huizenga, NPR)
Week of September 26, 2011
Featured Video Performance Carlos Chávez: Two Piano Preludes (1937)
Featured Video Performance Pierre Boulez: Le soleil des eaux (1948/65)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karen Tanaka: Crystalline (1988)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Corigliano: Chimes of Freedom, from "Mr. Tambourine Man" (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Moravec: Tempest Fantasy (2002)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago, IL, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Pittsburgh New Music Net (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Classical Meets Electronica (New Sounds)
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August
2011Featured Composers
Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), American
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999), Spanish
Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), French
Marga Richter (1926- ), American
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934- ), British
Tina Davidson (1952- ), American
Stan Grill (1953- ), American
Timothy Miller (1961- ), American
Stefan Klaverdal (1975- ), Swedish
Featured Recordings
The Guitar Music Of Karl Korte (Centaur 3059) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Tracing a Dream (Navona Records - NV5847) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Lee Actor: Sax & Horn Concertos, etc (Navona) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Judd Greenstein - A World of Difference
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Interview @ Intervista
Derek Bermel: Interview with Lianne Hansen/NPR
Pytheas Sightings
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by George Miller and George Ogilvie)
The Maniac Chase (1904) - Music by Timothy Miller - Film by Edwin S. Porter/Thomas A. Edison
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) - Music by Max Steiner - Film by Michael Curtiz
Danses Pytheuses
After the Rain (2005) - Music by Arvo Pärt - Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Insyn (2007) - Music by Stefan Klaverdal - Choreography by Klara Elenius
Mémoires d'Oubliettes (2010) - Music by Dirk Haubrick - Choreography by Jirí Kylián
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
J. Anthony Allen: Saturations III-C (2005)
Alice Shields: The Transformation of Ani (1970)
Richard Maxfield: Amazing Grace (1960)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo (1934)
Mitchell Peters: Sea Refractions (1971)
Daniel Jones: Sonata for 3 Kettledrums (1947)
Week of August 1, 2011
Featured Video Performance Peter Maxwell Davies: Hill Runes (1981)
Featured Video Performance Stan Grill: Meditation (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Marga Richter: Aria and Toccata (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Frederic Rzewski: Down By The Riverside (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Bark: Neutral Tones (2008)
Featured Ensemble Sonic Generator (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item IRCAM (Paris, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Kati Agócs – Six Questions About Women in Composition Now (WSO New Music Festival)
Week of August 8, 2011
Featured Video Performance Joaquín Rodrigo: Invocacion y Danza (1961)
Featured Video Performance Michael Gordon: I Buried Paul (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Sculthorpe: Nocturnal (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Aleksandra Vrebalov: String Quartet No. 2 (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Shulamit Ran:Violin Concerto (2003), mvt 2
Featured Ensemble Juventas (Boston, MA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Portland Chamber Music Festival, Portland, ME, USA - Aug 11-20, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Art and Science of Music (Kelley Reese, UNT Resource)
Week of August 15, 2011
Featured Video Performance Wallingford Riegger: Nonet for Brass (1951)
Featured Video Performance Stephen Cohn: Sea Change (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alan Hovhaness: Concerto for Two Pianos (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kurt Schwertsik: Schrumpf-Symphonie (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Todd Goodman: River of Sorrows (2006)
Featured Ensemble Chicago Chamber Musicians (Chicago, IL, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Portland Chamber Music Festival, Portland, ME, USA - Aug 11-20, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas University Turns iPhones Into Musical Instruments (Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters)
Week of August 22, 2011
Featured Video Performance Peter Maxwell Davies: The Lighthouse (1979)
Featured Video Performance Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Installation at "The Curve" (2008/2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jón Leifs: Tveir söngvar (Two songs), op. 14a (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Lieberson: Piano Fantasy (1974/75)
Featured Pytheas Earful David T. Little: Spalding Gray (2008)
Featured Ensemble ensemble mosaik (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Contemporary Composer Index (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas In Search of the Next Great American Opera (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)
Week of August 29, 2011
Featured Video Performance Stefan Klaverdal: eyes like a flame of fire (2009)
Featured Video Performance David Sartor: Parabola (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Toru Takemitsu: Textures (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Bright Sheng: Flute Moon (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Delvyn Case: Tenebrae factae sunt (2000)
Featured Ensemble Musica Nova (Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Milken Archive of American Jewish Music (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Australian Piano Music of the Twentieth Century (Larry Sitsky)
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July
2011Featured Composers
Dimitri Tiomkin (1894-1979), Ukranian-American
Roy Harris (1898-1979), American
Otto Luening (1900-1996), American
Charles Knox (1929- ), American
Elizabeth Vercoe (1941- ), American
David Avshalomov (1946- ), American
Joseph Turrin (1947- ), American
Giorgio Koukl (1953- ), Czech
Dalit Warshaw (1974- ), American
Featured Recordings
The Guitar Music Of Karl Korte (Centaur 3059) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Robert Beaser – On His Guitar Concerto
Michael Daugherty – Icon Artist
Pytheas Sightings
Decasia (2002) - Music by Michael Gordon - Film by Bill Morrison
Red River (1948) - Music by Dimitri Tiomkin - Film by Howard Hawks
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) - Music by Maurice Jarre - Film by George Miller and George Ogilvie)
Danses Pytheuses
Blackbird (2002) - Music: Traditional (music from Georgia) - Choreography by Jirí Kylián
Second Exposure (2007) – Music by Ricardo Romaneiro – Choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Edson Zampronha: Sampling (2004)
Luciano Berio: Momenti (1960)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Ney Rosauro: Marimba Concerto (1986)
Dan Locklair: Constellations (1980)
Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo (1934)
Week of July 4, 2011
Featured Video Performance Roy Harris: Bicentennial Symphony (1976)
Featured Video Performance Robert Beaser: He's Gone Away (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Silvestre Revueltas: Janitzio (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful Pēteris Vasks: Māte saule (Mother Sun) (1975)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dalit Warshaw: Desert Call (2001)
Featured Ensemble Metropolis Ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Contemporary Classical Music Guide (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composing in the Computer Age (Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe)
Week of July 11, 2011
Featured Video Performance John Psathas: View From Olympus (2001)
Featured Video Performance Elizabeth Vercoe: Sonaria (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Wallingford Riegger: Dichotomy (1931)
Featured Pytheas Earful Joseph Turrin: Two Portraits: No. 1 - Psalm (1995)
Featured Pytheas Earful Charles Knox: 2002: Semordnilap No. 2 (1998)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble: Périphérie (Cedar Rapids, IA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (MASS MoCA) - July 13-30, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Celebrating Clara: Star Pupil, Friend and Composer (Dalit Warshaw, The Bob Moog Foundation)
Week of July 18, 2011
Featured Video Performance Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939)
Featured Video Performance Dalit Warshaw: Night Lights (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Giorgio Koukl: Five Miniatures (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Zhou Long: Heng (Eternity) (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ryan Anthony Francis: Piano Concerto (2007-2008)
Featured Ensemble New Music Detroit (Detroit, MI, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Fauxharmonic Orchestra
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Schizophonia vs. L'Objet sonore: Soundscapes and Artistic Freedom (Francisco Lopez)
Week of July 25, 2011
Featured Video Performance David Avshalomov: Diversion ("Terwilliger") (1966)
Featured Video Performance Judd Greenstein: A E I O U (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Aaron Copland: Inscape (1967)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Coulthard: Piano Sonata No. 2 (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stefan Klaverdal: Prayer of a King (2004)
Featured Ensemble Patricia Sonego - coloratura soprano (Canadian performer)
Featured Festival or Item Friends of Today's Music (Music Teachers' Association of California)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Electronic Poems (Arcane Candy)
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June
2011Featured Composers
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), American
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), American
Gloria Coates (1938- ), American
Margaret Brouwer (1940 - ), American
Pēteris Vasks (1946- ), Latvian
Beth Anderson (1950- ), American
Steven Rosenhaus (1952- ), American
Patrício da Silva (1973- ), Portuguese
Susan Botti (1962- ), American
Featured Recordings
Cult Figures (Centredisques 13908) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Margaret Brouwer: Chamber Music (New World Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Margaret Brouwer: Orchestral Music (Naxos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Augusta Read Thomas Interview with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Evan Ziporyn Talks About His Life and His Music
Beth Wiemann: Composer Profile
Pytheas Sightings
Anthony Adverse (1936) - Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Film by Mervyn LeRoy
Marvin's Room (1996) - Music by Rachel Portman - Jerry Zaks
Decasia (2002) - Music by Michael Gordon - Film by Bill Morrison
Danses Pytheuses
Sarabande (1990) - Music by Dick Heuff - Choreography by Jiri Kylian
Boléro (1928) - Music by Maurice Ravel - Choreography by Maurice Béjart
Lucid Dreams (2009) - Music by Henryk Górecki - Choreography by Ja' Malik
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
François Bayle: Jeîta (1970)
Otto Luening: Invention in Twelve Notes (1952)
Morton Subotnick: The Wild Bull (1968)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Christian Wolff: Fall (2000)
Elliott Carter: March, from "Eight Pieces for Timpani" (1950)
Ney Rosauro: Marimba Concerto (1986)
Week of June 1, 2011
Featured Video Performance Pēteris Vasks: Plainscapes (2002)
Featured Video Performance Robert Russell Bennett: Symphonic Songs for Band (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Benjamin Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gloria Coates: String Quartet No. 3 (1975)
Featured Pytheas Earful Susan Botti: Spring is Opening (2001)
Featured Ensemble The Syzygy Ensemble (Melbourne, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item Ruccas.org (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Want to Rewire Your Brain? Study Music (Lee Dye, Signs of the Times)
Week of June 6, 2011
Featured Video Performance Patrício da Silva: The Fact of the Matter as a Matter of Fact (2007)
Featured Video Performance Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful M. Camargo Guarnieri: Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1947)
Featured Pytheas Earful Beth Anderson: Pennyroyal Swale (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dean Rosenthal: Your Fine Promises (1997)
Featured Ensemble Relâche (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Wisconsin Music Archives - Wisconsin Composers
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Elliott Carter's Century Of Music (Tom Cole, NPR)
Week of June 13, 2011
Featured Video Performance Igor Stravinsky: Violin Concerto (1931), mvt 4
Featured Video Performance Gloria Coates: Three Songs (1972-2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Evan Ziporyn: Amok! (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Steven Rosenhaus: Samba, from PRO*JECT (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nathan Kolosko: Five Short Pieces for Guitar: No. 1 (2006)
Featured Ensemble Signal Ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item soundON Festival of Modern Music (La Jolla, California) - June 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas History of Avantgarde Music (Piero Scaruffi, scaruffi.com)
Week of June 20, 2011
Featured Video Performance Margaret Brouwer: Violin Concerto (2007), Part 2
Featured Video Performance Arthur Greene: Seven Wild Mushrooms and a Waltz (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Paul Hindemith: Heckelphone Trio, op. 47 (1928)
Featured Pytheas Earful Lawrence Dillon: Tes yeux (Your Eyes), from Appendage (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kinan Azmeh: Ibn Arabi's Postlude (2007)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Linea (Alsace, France)
Featured Festival or Item Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival (Warebrook, VT) - July 11-16, 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas What the GRM Brought to Music: Musique concrète to Acousmatic (Marc Battier, Inventionen)
Week of June 27, 2011
Featured Video Performance Alban Berg: Altenberg Lieder (1912)
Featured Video Performance Dan Locklair: Changing Perceptions (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gustav Holst: Terzetto (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Muczynski: Saxophone Sonata, op. 29 (1970), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful Susan Botti: listen, it's snowing (1990)
Featured Ensemble Percussion Group Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Sub Rosa (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Colorful Music of Robert Starer (Justin Kolb, Clavier Magazine)
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May
2011Featured Composers
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947), Italian
George Rochberg (1918-2005), American
François Bayle (1932- ), Madagascar/French
Katherine Hoover (1937- ), American
Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), American
Rain Worthington (1949- ), American
John Luther Adams (1953- ), American
David Felder (1953- ), American
Aleksandra Vrebalov (1970- ), Serbian
Featured Recordings
Gyan Riley: Stream of Gratitude (Tzadik) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Cult Figures (Centredisques 13908) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Julia Wolfe: Composer Portrait
Portrait: Pierre Henry - The Art of Sounds
Augusta Read Thomas Interview with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pytheas Sightings
Gattaca (1997) – Music by Michael Nyman - Film by Andrew Niccol
Chinatown (1974) - Music by Jerry Goldsmith - Film by Roman Polanski
Danses Pytheuses
Earthdance Concerto, mvt. 4: Ele-metal Dance (2001) - Music by Don Freund - Choreography by Jacques Cesbron
Butterfly Dream (2010) - Music by Judd Greenstein - Choreography by Xiao-xiong
Sarabande (1990) - Music by Dick Heuff - Choreography by Jiri Kylian
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Pierre Henry: Danse Electromatic (1972)
Delia Derbyshire: Frontier of Knowledge (1972)
François Bayle: Jeîta (1970)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John Luther Adams: Sauyatugvik - The Time of Drumming (1996)
Carlos Chávez: Toccata (1942)
Week of May 2, 2011
Featured Video Performance Katherine Hoover: Thin Ice (2009)
Featured Video Performance George Rochberg: Sonata for Viola and Piano (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 5 (1964)
Featured Pytheas Earful François Bayle: Eros Bleu (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karen Amrhein: Sontata for Trumpet and Piano (1996)
Featured Ensemble Cadillac Moon Ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Notations 21 Project
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Musique Concrète Revisited (Carlos Palombini, Electronic Musicological Review)
Week of May 9, 2011
Featured Video Performance John Luther Adams: The Farthest Place (2001)
Featured Video Performance Sofia Gubaidulina: Chaconne (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andrzej Panufnik: Sinfonia di Sfere (Symphony No. 5) (1975)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Lieberson: The Six Realms - The Human Realm (2000)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elizabeth Austin: Bellagio Blues (2001)
Featured Ensemble Ursula Oppens (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Composers Collaborative Inc. (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Mark Morris’ Guide to Twentieth Century Composers (Mark Morris, MusicWeb International)
Week of May 16, 2011
Featured Video Performance David Felder: Inner Sky (1994) (pt 3 of 3)
Featured Video Performance Tōru Takemitsu: Fantasma/Cantos II (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Percy Grainger: Father and Daughter (1908-09)
Featured Pytheas Earful Aleksandra Vrebalov: Orbits (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Katherine Hoover: El Andalus (2003)
Featured Ensemble Great Noise Ensemble (Washington, DC, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance (Mannes College of Music, NY, NY)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas From The Temple of Dendera (Egyptian Etudes) (Andrew List)
Week of May 23, 2011
Featured Video Performance Katherine Hoover: Kokopeli (1990)
Featured Video Performance Charles Ives: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (1914/33)
Featured Pytheas Earful Isang Yun: Espace I (1992)
Featured Pytheas Earful Marilyn Shrude: A Virtual Reality for Orchestra (2003)
Featured Pytheas Earful Lee Actor: Concerto for Tympani and Orchestra (2005)
Featured Ensemble ISSA Sonus ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY, USA, June 6 -12, 2011)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Pitch for New Music (David Lang, The New York Times)
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April
2011Featured Composers
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Armenian-American
Earle Brown (1926-2002), American
John Barry (1933-2011), English
Jacqueline Fontyn (1930- ), Belgian
Don Freund (1947- ), American
Lee Hyla (1952- ), American
Melinda Wagner (1957- ), American
David Gaines (1961- ), American
Gernot Wolfgang (1957- ), Austrian-American
Featured Recordings
Luigi Dallapiccola: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (Chandos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Gyan Riley: Stream of Gratitude (Tzadik) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Kevin Volans - CMC Composer of the Month Interview
Aleksandra Vrebalov - Finding Your Roots by Replanting Them
Julia Wolfe: Composer Portrait
Pytheas Sightings
The Lion in Winter (1968 ) - Music by John Barry - Film by Anthony Harvey
Light is Calling (2004) - Music Michael Gordon - Film by Bill Morrison
Danses Pytheuses
Blue Yellow (1995) - Music by Kevin Volans - Choreography by Sylvie Guillem
Galatea’s Awakening (2007) - Music by Alan Hovhaness - Choreography by Mariah Steele
Earthdance Concerto, mvt. 4: Ele-metal Dance (2001) - Music by Don Freund - Choreography by Jacques Cesbron
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Laurie Spiegel: Old Wave (1975)
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Sonic Contours (1952)
Pierre Henry: Danse Electromatic (1972)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Steve Reich: Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
David Lang: The So-Called Laws of Nature (2002), Part III
Week of April 4, 2011
Featured Video Performance Alan Hovhaness: Chahagir (1945)
Featured Video Performance Lee Hyla: Ciao, Manhattan (1990)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alban Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, op. 5 (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jacqueline Fontyn: Halo (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michel van der Aa: Here [to be found] (2001)
Featured Ensemble Psappha (Manchester, UK)
Featured Festival or Item The Stone (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Far From Music Capitals, OH Conservatory Fosters Contemp Sounds (Vivien Schweitzer, NYT)
Week of April 11, 2011
Featured Video Performance Daniel Sonenberg: Whistlesparks (2006)
Featured Video Performance Aleksandra Vrebalov: Pannonia Boundless (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto (1962) - last movement
Featured Pytheas Earful Dalit Warshaw: Agitata (or "The Fiery One!") (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Edward Ficklin: Context of Love Lives (2005)
Featured Ensemble Music on the Edge (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Back Bay Contemporary Music Festival (Portland, ME, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas When the Style is No Style (April 18, 2005, Michael Walsh, Time.com)
Week of April 18, 2011
Featured Video Performance Melinda Wagner: Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (2004)
Featured Video Performance Gyan Riley: Tokata (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gyorgy Ligeti: Lux aeterna (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Richard Rodney Bennett: Guitar Sonata (1983), mvt III – Vivo
Featured Pytheas Earful Tansy Davies: salt box (2005)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Yarmouth Contemporary Music Days 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas What Kind of Music Is This Anyway? (Michael Gordon, The New York Times)
Week of April 25, 2011
Featured Video Performance Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (1943) - 2nd mvt
Featured Video Performance Alan Hovhaness: Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints (1965)
Featured Pytheas Earful Earle Brown: String Quartet (1965)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gernot Wolfgang: Rolling Hills & Jagged Ridges (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful Christopher Marshall: High Flight (2009)
Featured Ensemble TDM (Trío de Magia) (Valencia, Spain)
Featured Festival or Item Yarmouth Contemporary Music Days 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Electronic Music: Where Technology Becomes Art (Peter Gutmann, Classical Notes)
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March
2011Featured Composers
Pierre Henry (1927- ), French
Frederic Rzewski (1938- ), American
Peter Lieberson (1946- ), American
Kevin Volans (1949- ), South African
Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Finnish
Karl Henning (1960- ), American
Anna-Lena Laurin (1962- ), Swedish
Manuel Rocha Iturbide (1963- ), Mexican
Eric Whitacre (1970- ), American
Featured Recordings
Frederic Rzewski: Pocket Symphony; etc (Cedille) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Nancy Van de Vate: Where The Cross Is Made (VMM) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Luigi Dallapiccola: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (Chandos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Lawrence Dillon – Interview @ Pytheas
Arvo Part - Björk Interviews Arvo Pärt
Kevin Volans - CMC Composer of the Month Interview
Pytheas Sightings
Out of Africa (1985) - Music by John Barry - Film by Sydney Pollack
Planet of the Apes (1968) - Music by Jerry Goldsmith - Film by Franklin J. Schaffner
Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Music by Sergei Prokofiev - Film by Sergei Eisenstein
Danses Pytheuses
The Day The Earth Fell Silent (2010) - Music by John Barry - Choreography by Dance School of Scotland
Earthdance Concerto (2001) - Music by Don Freund - Choreography by Jacques Cesbron
Blue Yellow (1995) - Music by Kevin Volans - Choreography by Sylvie Guillem
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Pierre Henry: Levitation, from "Mise en musique du corticalart" (1971)
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964) (Brussels version)
Laurie Spiegel: Old Wave (1975)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
David Gillingham: Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind (1997)
André Jolivet: Suite en concert (1965)
Frederic Rzewski: To the Earth (1985)
Week of March 1, 2011
Featured Video Performance Eric Whitacre: Sleep (2000)
Featured Video Performance Heitor Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Piano No. 2 (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful Virgil Thomson: Serenade for Flute and Violin (1931)
Featured Pytheas Earful Frederic Rzewski: Squares (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful Peter Lieberson: Amor mio, si muero ... (from Neruda Songs) (2005)
Featured Ensemble Earplay (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Open Ears - Festival of Music & Sound (Kitchener, ON, Canada) - Apr/May 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Contemporary Polish Music (Polish Institute)
Week of March 7, 2011
Featured Video Performance Kaija Saariaho: Fall (1991)
Featured Video Performance Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Two Pianos (1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful Marga Richter: Aria and Toccata for Viola and String Orchestra (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Tavener: Song for Athene (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anna-Lena Laurin: Meadows, from "Piece From Silence" (2006)
Featured Ensemble NYYD (Tallinn, Estonia)
Featured Festival or Item Vancouver New Music (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Concept Becomes Experience: A Composer's Journey (Peter Lieberson, Shambhala Sun)
Week of March 14, 2011
Featured Video Performance Frederic Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (1979)
Featured Video Performance Frank Zappa: Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat (1983/92)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfredo Casella: Notte di Maggio (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kevin Volans: Untitled ("in memoriam G. H.V.") (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karl Henning: Heedless Watermelon (2009)
Featured Ensemble Miso Ensemble (Portugal)
Featured Festival or Item ISCM World New Music Days 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Music in Latvia (The Latvian Institute/Latvijas institūts)
Week of March 21, 2011
Featured Video Performance Nikolai Kapustin: Impromptu, op. 66, no. 2 (1991)
Featured Video Performance Kevin Volans: Asanga (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Grazyna Bacewicz: Concerto for Strings (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful George Crumb: Processional (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Aylward: Dragonfly (2003)
Featured Ensemble Ictus ensemble (Brussels, Belgium)
Featured Festival or Item Society for New Music (Syracuse, NY, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Business of Music, Part II: Music and the Mind/The Viennese School
Week of March 28, 2011
Featured Video Performance Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae (2002)
Featured Video Performance Leo Brouwer: In memorium Toru Takemitsu, "Hika" (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Muczynski: Toccata for Piano, op. 15 (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elliott Schwartz: Souvenir (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gwyneth Walker: If Ever Two Were One (2003)
Featured Ensemble Callisto Ensemble (Chicago, IL, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Seminar on Contemporary Music (The Rivers School Conservatory, Weston, MA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas List ‘Em Carefully: Top 10 Classical Composers (1901-Present) (J. Cohen, Consequence of Sound)
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February
2011Featured Composers
Carl Orff (1895-1982), German
Vladimir Ussachevsky (1911-1990), Russian-American
David Gillingham (1947- ), American
Nancy Van de Vate (1930- ), American
William Mathias (1934-1992), Welch
Stephen Cohn (1951- ), American
Lawrence Dillon (1959- ), American
Edson Zampronha (1963- ), Brazilian
Augusta Read Thomas (1964- ), American
Featured Recordings
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Electronic & Acoustic Works, 1957-1972 (New World) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Augusta Read Thomas: Words of the Sea & other works (Chicago Sym Label) also CD Review, sample audio files
Frederic Rzewski: Pocket Symphony; etc (Cedille) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Milton Babbitt: On Electronic Music
Stephen Cohn: InnerViewWorld Interview
Pytheas Sightings
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) - Music by Georges Auric - Film by Otto Preminger - Titles by Saul Bass
Strachy (1938) - Music by Andrzej Panufnik - Film by Eugeniusz Cękalski & Karol Szołowski
Out of Africa (1985) - Music by John Barry - Film by Sydney Pollack
Danses Pytheuses
2Solos (2007) - Music by Henryk Górecki - Choreography by Katharina Maschenka Horn
solo.1.untightled (2008) - Music by Paul Tinsley - Choreography by Karolina Wyrwal
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Milton Babbitt: Philomel (1964)
Manuel Rocha Iturbide: Parlantes (Speakers) (2000)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Marta Ptaszyńska: Spider Walk (1993)
David Lang: Face So Pale (1992)
David Gillingham: Concertino for Four Percussion and Wind (1997)
Week of February 1, 2011
Featured Video Performance Milton Babbitt: Composition for 12 Instruments (1948/54)
Featured Video Performance William Grant Still: Violin Suite – Gamin (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nancy van de Vate: Dark Nebulae (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful Aulis Sallinen: Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March (1981)
Featured Pytheas Earful Maija Hynninen: Kaiku 2 (Echo 2) (2007)
Featured Ensemble Cygnus Ensemble (Mount Vernon, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Living Composers: AnythingPiano Project (Donna Gross Javel)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Milton Babbitt Dies at 94 (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
Week of February 7, 2011
Featured Video Performance David Gillingham: Symphony No. 2, "Genesis" (2007)
Featured Video Performance Tom Flaherty: Remembrance of Things Present (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful André Jolivet: Chant De Linos (1944)
Featured Pytheas Earful Augusta Read Thomas: Murmers in the Mist of Memory (2001)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anna-Lena Laurin: Twilight from "The Painter" (2009)
Featured Ensemble Lisa Moore, pianist (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Evolution Contemporary Music Series (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Electronic Century Part II: Tales of the Tape (Joel Chadabe, emusician.com)
Week of February 14, 2011
Featured Video Performance Lawrence Dillon: Bacchus Chaconne (1991)
Featured Video Performance Earle Brown: December 1952 (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Mathias: Missa brevis, op. 64 (1973)
Featured Pytheas Earful Greg Bartholomew: Conversation in Orange & Brown (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tarik Ghiradella: Turning to Face the Wind (2010)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Re:new music (Denmark)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Varèse & Technological Sublime; or How Ionisation Went Nuclear (Anne Shreffler, Academia.edu)
Week of February 21, 2011
Featured Video Performance Pēteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 3 (1995) - Adagio
Featured Video Performance Carl Orff: Gassenhauer (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful Bohuslav Martinů: Double Concerto (1938), mvt III
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Colgrass: Winds Of Nagual - The Desert (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Antonio Chagas Rosa: Three Consolations (1999)
Featured Ensemble Crash Ensemble (Dublin, Ireland)
Featured Festival or Item Borealis Festival (Bergen, Norway) - March 2011
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Continuum Of Indeterminacy In Music (Adam Scott Neal, Art + Culture)
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January
2011Featured Composers
Ernst Bacon (1898-1990), American
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), American
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991), Polish
Lou Harrison (1917-2003), American
Brian Fennelly (1937- ), American
David Maslanka (1943- ), American
Steve Martland (1959- ), English
Rachel Portman (1960- ), British
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva (1978- ), Slovenian
Featured Recordings
M. Camargo Guarnieri: Piano Concertos (Naxos) also CD Review and here & sample audio files and here
Andrzej Panufnik: Symphonic Works Vol. 1 (cpo) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Electronic & Acoustic Works, 1957-1972 (New World) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Gabriela Lena Frank: Composite Identity (NewMusicBox)
Bojana Šaljić-Podešva Talks About Her Life and Music
Pytheas Sightings
A Week in the Life of a Man (1999) - Music by Wojciech Kilar - Film by Jerzy Stuhr
Victory at Sea (1952-53) - Music by Richard Rodgers/R.R. Bennett - TV Series by Henry Salomon
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) - Music by Georges Auric - Film by Otto Preminger - Titles by Saul Bass
Danses Pytheuses
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2009) - Music by Terry Riley - Choreography by David Fernandez
Van Gogh Ballet - Music by Moira Smiley - Choreography by Vera Ninkovic
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Milton Babbitt: Occasional Variations (1968-1971)
Otto Luening: Low Speed (1952)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John Alfieri: Fanfare for Tambourines (1989)
James Dillon: Ti.re-Ti.ke-Dha (1979)
Marta Ptaszyńska: Spider Walk (1993)
Week of January 3, 2011
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Conc. No. 2 (1957) - 1st mvt
Featured Video Performance Lou Harrison: Serenade for Guitar: Round (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful Leós Janácek: Kát’a Kabanová, Act I, Intermezzo and Scene II (1921)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andrzej Panufnik: String Quartet No. 2, "Messages" (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Steve Martland: Beat The Retreat (1995)
Featured Ensemble Cikada (Oslo, Norway)
Featured Festival or Item Composers Datebook (American Composers Forum)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas New Winds in Estonian Music (Kalevi Aho, Finnish Music Quarterly)
Week of January 10, 2011
Featured Video Performance David Maslanka: Give Us This Day (2005)
Featured Video Performance David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Manuel de Falla: Harpsichord Concerto (1926)
Featured Pytheas Earful Brian Fennelly: Sukhi! (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Rachel Portman: Suite from "Never Let Me Go" (2010)
Featured Ensemble MD7 Contemporary Music Ensemble (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Featured Festival or Item LIEU (Laboratoire Instrumental EUropéen) (Vitry-sur-Seine, France)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Does Contemporary Classical Music Have a Future? (James MacMillan, Guardian)
Week of January 17, 2011
Featured Video Performance Górecki: Concerto for Harpsichord & String Orch (1981)
Featured Video Performance Willliam Mathias: Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Russell Bennett: Rose Variations (1955)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kevin Volans: Mbira (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karen Amrhein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1996)
Featured Ensemble Eclipse Quartet (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Festival international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques (Montréal, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas About the Rodgers/R.R. Bennett collaboration for NBC's "Victory at Sea" (Roy Benton Hawkins)
Week of January 24, 2011
Featured Video Performance Nino Rota: Trombone Concerto (1966)
Featured Video Performance Rzewski: People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ernst Bacon: Ford's Theater - Pennsylvania Avenue (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful Edson Zampronha: Viaje al Interior (Travel to Inward) (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stephen Cohn: Essay for Guitar (2008)
Featured Ensemble Mimesis Ensemble (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Scorescapes (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas From Moog to Mark II, to MIDI to MAX (Kyle Gann, American Public Media)
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