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Featured Archive 2011

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2011
Jan    Feb    Mar    April    May    June    July    Aug    Sept    Oct    Nov    Dec


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December 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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 2011
Featured 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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