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Pytheas New Music Video Archive
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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
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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
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2012
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December
2012Featured Composers
Ruth Crawford (Seeger) (1901-1953), American
Dimitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987), Soviet-Russian
Gy?rgy Kurt?g (1926- ), Hungarian
Lepo Sumera (1950-2000), Estonian
Joel Hoffman (1953- ), American
Anna Weesner (1965- ), American
Young-Shin Choi (1974- ), Korean
Vincent Ho (1975- ), Canadian
Dan Tramte (1985- ), American
Featured Recordings
Thomas Ad?s: Living Toys (EMI 72271-2) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Lepo Sumera: Cello Concerto; Symphony No. 6; Music profana (BIS 1360) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Dave Brubeck Talks with Larry Appelbaum (The Library of Congress)
Vincent Ho - ?volution (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
An Interview with Karen Amrhein @ Common Tone
Pytheas Sightings
The Fog of War (2003) - Music by Philip Glass - Film by Errol Morris
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Music by Dimitri Tiomkin – Film by Frank Capra
Danses Pytheuses
Ohio is in the Midwest (2009) – Sound Design and Choreography by Rachel McKinstry & Kendra Portier
104? Fahrenheit (2010) - Music and Choreography by Miro Magloire
Zeitraum (1998) - Music by Yens & Yens - Choreography by Rui Horta
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Elizabeth Hoffman: Tesserae (1994)
Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)
Fran?ois Bayle: L'oiseau chanteur (1963)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra (2003)
Missy Mazzoli: Volume (2006)
Week of December 3, 2012
Featured Video Performance Gy?rgy Kurt?g: Five Pieces from Signs, Games, and Messages (1989- )
Featured Video Performance Paul Moravec: I Think About You (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Earl Kim: 12 Caprices for Solo Violin (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Elizaveta Sanicheva: Five Senses (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Geoffrey Gordon: Meditation and Allegro (2011)
Featured Ensemble Land’s End Chamber Ensemble (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Living Arts (Tulsa, OK, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Ruth Crawford Seeger's Contributions to Musical Modernism (Joseph Straus, ISAM Newsletter)
Week of December 10, 2012
Featured Video Performance Joel Hoffman: Music in Yellow and Green (2012)
Featured Video Performance Ruth Crawford Seeger: Suite for Wind Quintet (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Schuman: Violin Concerto (1959)
Featured Pytheas Earful Giorgio Koukl: Narcisset (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Wojciech Kilar: Requiem Father Kolbe (1996)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble musikFabrik (K?ln, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Musicuratum (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Can Music for Dance Stand Alone? (Alice Shields, NewMusicBox)
Week of December 17, 2012
Featured Video Performance Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings (1979)
Featured Video Performance Lepo Sumera: For Boris Bj?rn Bagger and His Friend (1988)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henry Cowell: Homage to Iran (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Laurie Spiegel: East River Dawn (1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mikael Karlsson: On This Planet (2010)
Featured Ensemble Studio for New Music Ensemble (Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory)
Featured Festival or Item Electronic Music Midwest
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Controversial Comrade Kabalevsky (Fred Flaxman, Compact Discoveries)
Week of December 24, 2012
Featured Video Performance Cecilia McDowall: Now May We Singen (2007)
Featured Video Performance Dave Brubeck: The Gates of Justice (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful Erik Satie: Socrate (1918)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gy?rgy Kurt?g: Splinters (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful George Grella: Smiles of a Summer's Day (2010)
Featured Ensemble Quatour Bozzini (Montr?al, Qu?bec, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Ablaze Records (Tasmania, Australia and Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas An Interview with Karl Korte (Tobias Fischer, Tokafi)
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November
2012Featured Composers
Heino Eller (1887-1970), Estonian
Dave Brubeck (1920- ), American
David Tudor (1926-1996), American
Keiko Abe (1937- ), Japanese
John Newell (1949- ), American
Guus Janssen (1951- ), Dutch
Barbara White (1965- ), American
Pierre Jalbert (1967- ), American
Thomas Ad?s (1971- ), English
Featured Recordings
Classical Brubeck (Telarc 80621) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Thomas Ad?s: Living Toys (EMI 72271-2) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Vineet Shende: Bowdoin College's Composer of Note
Tod Machover - Visionaries (WBUR, Boston)
Dave Brubeck Talks with Larry Appelbaum (The Library of Congress)
Pytheas Sightings
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) – Music by Cage, Bowles, Milhaud – Film by Hans Richter
The Spanish Earth (1937) - Music by Virgil Thomson and Marc Blitzstein - Film by Joris Ivans
Disgrace (2008) - Music by Graeme Koehne - Film by Steve Jacobs
Danses Pytheuses
I Drink the Air Before Me (2009) – Music by Nico Muhly – Choreography by Stephen Petronio
RainForest (1968) - Music by David Tudor - Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Ohio is in the Midwest (2009) – Sound Design and Choreography by Rachel McKinstry & Kendra Portier
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Corneliu Dan Georgescu: Ostern-Meditation (2009)
David Tudor: Pulsers (1970)
Elizabeth Hoffman: Tesserae (1994)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Mitchell Peters: Galactica (1999)
Mark Ford: Wink (2011)
Week of November 5, 2012
Featured Video Performance Tod Machover: Miranda's Aria from Death & the Powers (2010)
Featured Video Performance Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Charles Ives: Serenity (1919)
Featured Pytheas Earful Karl Jenkins: Requiem (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful Judd Greenstein: Be There (2008)
Featured Ensemble NEXUS percussion ensemble (Toronto, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Soci?t? de musique contemporaine du Qu?bec (Qu?bec, Canada)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Pierre Jalbert: All Music Great and Small (Alexandra Gardner, NewMusicBox)
Week of November 12, 2012
Featured Video Performance Guus Janssen: Four Songs (2008)
Featured Video Performance Heino Eller: The Bells (1929)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ulf Grahn: For Piano (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful Louise Talma: Lament (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Barbara White: My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon (2008)
Featured Ensemble CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Manhattan New Music Project (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Music Museums of the 21st Century (Anne Midgette, The Washington Post)
Week of November 19, 2012
Featured Video Performance Pierre Jalbert: Icefield Sonnets, III. North is a Notion (2004)
Featured Video Performance Elliott Carter: Dialogues (2003)
Featured Pytheas Earful Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte ? Dulcin?e (1933)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Gillingham: Waking Angels (1996)
Featured Pytheas Earful Thomas Ad?s: Three Studies from Couperin (2006)
Featured Ensemble Alia Musica Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Zu Casa (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Elliott Carter, Composer Who Decisively Snapped Tradition, Dies (Allan Kozinn, NY Times)
Week of November 26, 2012
Featured Video Performance Keiko Abe: Prism Rhapsody (1995)
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful Colin McPhee: Tabuh-tabuhan (1936)
Featured Pytheas Earful Guus Janssen: Klotz (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Vincent Ho: Four Snapshots of a Dream (2002)
Featured Ensemble The McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Cincinnati Composers Laptop Orchestra Project (CiCLOP) (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Guide to Thomas Ad?s' Music (Tom Service, The Guardian)
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October
2012Featured Composers
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), French
Michael Tippett (1905-1998), English
B?lent Arel (1919-1990), Turkish
Corneliu Dan Georgescu (1938- ), Romanian
Eleanor Hovda (1940-2009), American
Gareth Farr (1968- ), New Zealander
Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska (1968- ), Polish
Vineet Shende (1973- ), American
Nico Muhly (1981- ), American
Featured Recordings
Carlos Surinach: Orchestra Works (First Edition Recordings 0039) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Frank Zappa: London Symphony Orchestra Vols. I & II (Barking Pumkin) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Nico Muhly: A Good Understanding (Decca Records 4782506) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Darius Milhaud Part I: A Recollection of the Twenties (KQED)
Anna Weesner: On Network For New Music Celebration
Vineet Shende: Bowdoin College's Composer of Note
Pytheas Sightings
Sister Sister (1987) - Music by Richard Einhorn - Film by Bill Condon
Traces on the Farther Side (2011) - Music by Frances White - Film by Andrew Lucia and Wendy Steiner
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) – Music by Cage, Bowles, Milhaud – Film by Hans Richter
Danses Pytheuses
La cr?ation du monde (1923) – Music by Darius Milhaud – Choreography by Faustin Linyekula
Vestigia (2009) – Music by Kotoka Suzuki – Choreography by David Earle
I Drink the Air Before Me (2009) – Music by Nico Muhly – Choreography by Stephen Petronio
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Dan Tramte: Nomos Delta (2011)
Young-Shin Choi: UJO IMU III (2009)
Corneliu Dan Georgescu: Ostern-Meditation (2009)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska: Toccata (2001)
Keiko Abe: Michi (1978)
Emmanuel S?journ?: Venin (1986)
Week of October 1, 2012
Featured Video Performance Gareth Farr: Taheke (2002)
Featured Video Performance Darius Milhaud: Sonatina for Violin and Cello, Op.324 (1953), mvt 3
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Tippett: Songs of Achilles (1961)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Rakowski: "Wiggle Room" (Piano Etude No. 43) (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Pertti Jalava: Symphony No. 3, "Forms of Opinion" (2004-08)
Featured Ensemble Impulse Percussion Group (Wichita State University, KS, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Bowling Green New Music Festival, Bowling Green State Univ, Ohio, USA, October 17-20, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Classical Music Dead? Nico Muhly Proves It Isn't (Lucy Jones, The Telegraph)
Week of October 8, 2012
Featured Video Performance Corneliu Dan Georgescu: Praeludium fur Columna Infinita (2011)
Featured Video Performance Nico Muhly: Diacritical Marks (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Vision of Aeroplanes (1956)
Featured Pytheas Earful Sebastian Currier: Aftersong (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anna Weesner: Still Things Move (2003)
Featured Ensemble Lisa Moore, pianist (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Subtropics.org (Miami, Florida, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Shende Sounds Hopeful Note With Longfellow Poems (Bowdoin College News)
Week of October 15, 2012
Featured Video Performance Eleanor Hovda: Jo Ha Kyu (1990)
Featured Video Performance John Harbison: Myrtle's 2nd Aria (from The Great Gatsby) (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Silvestre Revueltas: Musica para charlar (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful Darius Milhaud: Pacem in terris (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Newell: Quartet for Strings (2008)
Featured Ensemble San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (San Francisco, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Florida Electroacoustic Music Studio (University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Rare Bird: Gyan Riley (Tom Chandler, East Bay Express)
Week of October 22, 2012
Featured Video Performance Emmanuel S?journ?: Akadinda Trio (1992)
Featured Video Performance Ruth Wiesenfeld: Stories Still... (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful Roger Sessions: From My Diary (1937-1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful Chen Yi: Duo Ye (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nico Muhly: Like as the Hart (2004)
Featured Ensemble Either/Or (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item American Classical Music Hall of Fame (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Death of Eleanor Hovda (Joseph Dalton, My Big Gay Ears)
Week of October 29, 2012
Featured Video Performance Thomas Ad?s: Asyla (1997), mvt 3
Featured Video Performance Darius Milhaud: Segoviana (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Tippett: Mosaic (1962-63)
Featured Pytheas Earful Dave Brubeck: Abba Father, from Beloved Son (1978)
Featured Pytheas Earful Amy Scurria: Five Haiku (1998)
Featured Ensemble Thamyris (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, UK) - November 16-25, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas One Must Have a Chaos Inside (Michael Merkelely, The Guardian)
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September
2012Featured Composers
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Polish
Carlos Surinach (1915-1997), Spanish-American
Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008), German-Argentine
Tony Caramia (1950- ), American
Richard Einhorn (1952- ), American
Christos Hatzis (1953- ), Greek-Canadian
Frances White (1960- ), American
Ann Millikan (1963- ), American
Kevin Puts (1972- ), American
Featured Recordings
Grażyna Bacewicz: Violin Concertos Nos. 1,3,7 (Chandos Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Carlos Surinach: Orchestra Works (First Edition Recordings 0039) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Kevin Puts - On His Piano Concerto "Night"
Christos Hatzis – Interview @ Your Greek News
Pytheas Sightings
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1943) - Music by Arthur Honegger - Film by Abel Gance
En Blanc et Noir (2007) - Music by Claude Debussy - Film by Tal Rosner
Sister Sister (1987) - Music by Richard Einhorn - Film by Bill Condon
Danses Pytheuses
Rounding (1984) - Music by B?lent Arel - Choreography by Mimi Garrard
Red (2006) - Music by Kristin Norderval - Choreography by Carrie Ahern
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Piece for Tape Recorder (1956)
Juan Amenabar: Los Peces (1957)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John H. Beck: Modulation (1996)
Christos Hatzis: Fertility Rites (1997), mvt I
Anna Ignatowicz-Glinska: Toccata (2001)
Week of September 3, 2012
Featured Video Performance Richard Einhorn: Variations on La Folia (2011)
Featured Video Performance B?la Bart?k: Sonata for Solo Violin (1944), 3rd mvt
Featured Pytheas Earful Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 6 (1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mauricio Kagel: Episoden, Figuren (1993)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kevin Puts: Millennium Canons (2001)
Featured Ensemble Aguava New Music Studio (Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Pictures of Music (Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Sound of Silents/The Passion of Joan of Arc (M.V. Moorhead, phoenixnewtimes.com)
Week of September 10, 2012
Featured Video Performance Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie (1964)
Featured Video Performance Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Recorder Sonatina (1939)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carlos Surinach: Doppio concertino (1954)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mauricio Kagel: An Tasten (1977)
Featured Pytheas Earful Sarah Horick: She Walks In Beauty (2006)
Featured Ensemble Lynn Vartan, percussionist (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Portals Project (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The New Music-Theatre of Mauricio Kagel (Zach?r Laskewicz, Nachtschimmen.eu)
Week of September 17, 2012
Featured Video Performance Christos Hatzis: Arctic Dreams 1 (2002)
Featured Video Performance Tony Caramia: Night Train Express (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Leoš Jan?ček: In the Mists (1912)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jean Langlais: Trois Esquisses Gothiques (1975), no. 3
Featured Pytheas Earful Frances White: Winter Aconites (1993)
Featured Ensemble Xenakis Ensemble (The Netherlands)
Featured Festival or Item Indiana State University's 46th Annual Contemporary Music Festival, Oct 24-26, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer and Material in musique concr?te (Frances White)
Week of September 24, 2012
Featured Video Performance Kevin Puts: Arches (2000)
Featured Video Performance Reza Vali: Kord (Calligraphy No. 9) (2008)
Featured Pytheas Earful Grażyna Bacewicz: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orch (1966), Larghetto
Featured Pytheas Earful R. Murray Schafer: Snowforms (1983)
Featured Pytheas Earful Svitlana Azarova: Outvoice, outstep and outwalk (2004)
Featured Ensemble Lynn Vartan, percussionist (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The Percussive Arts Society (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Love and Enlightenment (Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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August 2012Featured Composers
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), Italian
John Weinzweig (1913-2006), Canadian
Christian Wolff (1934- ), American
Gillian Whitehead (1941- ), New Zealand
Phil Kline (1953- ), American
Philippe Hurel (1955- ), French
Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960- ), English
Ted Vives (1964- ), American
Featured Recordings
Philippe Hurel: Phonus (Plusloin Music PL S217) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Grażyna Bacewicz: Violin Concertos Nos. 1,3,7 (Chandos Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Jennifer Higdon: Down to Earth – in conversation with Frank J. Oteri (NewMusicBox)
Mark-Anthony Turnage – Interview
Morton Feldman Interview (with Charles Shere/Internet Archive)
Pytheas Sightings
Pacific Heights (1990) - Music by Hans Zimmer - Film by John Schlesinger
Polar Express (2004) - Music by Alan Silvestri - Film by Robert Zemeckis
Le Capitaine Fracasse (1943) - Music by Arthur Honegger - Film by Abel Gance
Danses Pytheuses
Here Wait (2010) – Music by Maggi Payne – Choreography by Alyssa Lee
Grito (2010) - Music by Judith Shatin - Improvised Performance by Carol Dilley
G-Spot Tornado (1986/1992) - Music by Frank Zappa - Choreography by Louise Lecavalier
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Philippe Hurel: Plein-jeu (2010)
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Dona Nobis Pacem (1977)
B?lent Arel: Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 (1960)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Philippe Hurel: Loops IV (2005)
Iannis Xenakis: Okho (1989)
John H. Beck: Modulation (1996)
Week of August 1, 2012
Featured Video Performance Mark Anthony Turnage: Greek (1988)
Featured Video Performance Giacinto Scelsi: Ko-Tha I (1967)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Weinzweig: Dummiyah (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gillian Whitehead: Five Bagatelles (1986)
Featured Ensemble The Menard Ensemble (Brisbane, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item The Avant Garde Project: Online Audio Resource (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Giacinto Scelsi: Massive Interiors and Microtones (Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Hydra Magazine)
Week of August 6, 2012
Featured Video Performance Christian Wolff: Another Possibility (2004)
Featured Video Performance Jonathan Golove: Kreisler's Coat (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Zolt?n Kod?ly: Missa Brevis (1942)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andrzej Panufnik: Autumn Music (1962)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ted Vives: Fanfare Diamante (2007)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Accroche Note (Strasbourg, France)
Featured Festival or Item 5:4 (Five Against Four)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas New Programming - Expanding the Box (Greg Sandow)
Week of August 13, 2012
Featured Video Performance Gillian Whitehead: Arapatiki (2004)
Featured Video Performance Krzysztof Penderecki: Capriccio for Oboe and Orchestra (1964)
Featured Pytheas Earful Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 2, “O trenzinho do Caipira” (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful Joan Tower: Tambor (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Phil Kline: Tarantella (2006)
Featured Ensemble Orchestra 2001 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Hear Now – A Festival of New Music (Venice, California, USA) - Aug 25 & 26, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Compositions by CSULA Grad Student Resonate Across Continents (CalStateLA)
Week of August 20, 2012
Featured Video Performance Alberto Ginastera: Estancia, op. 8 (1941)
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Tymoczko: Piano Games (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Giacinto Scelsi: Pr?nam II (1973)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gia Comolli: The Flight of Icarus (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hidden Love Song (2005)
Featured Ensemble Red Light New Music (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Polish Music Center (Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composer Portrait: Anne LeBaron (Judy Lochhead, IAWM Journal)
Week of August 27, 2012
Featured Video Performance Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst (1992)
Featured Video Performance Henri Tomasi: Saxophone Concerto (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful Manuel de Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro (1922)
Featured Pytheas Earful Shulamit Ran: Vessels of Courage and Hope (1998)
Featured Ensemble Seattle Chamber Players (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Warsaw Autumn Festival of International Contemporary Music (Warsaw, Poland)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Kevin Puts Wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize (Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox)
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July
2012Featured Composers
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920), Russian
Andr? Caplet (1878-1925), French
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American
Nancy Gunn (1956- ), American
Sebastian Currier (1959- ), American
Derek Bermel (1967- ), American
Cheng Chin Man (1977- ), Chinese
Elliott Bark (1980- ), Korean-American
Patrick Harlin (1984- ), American
Featured Recordings
Douglas Knehans: Fractured Traces (Ablaze Records 00003) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Annie Gosfield: Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites (Tzadik Records 8007) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Nico Muhly (ASCAP Audio Portraits)
Sebastian Currier in Interview (Deutche Grammophon)
Jennifer Higdon: Down to Earth – in conversation with Frank J. Oteri (NewMusicBox)
Pytheas Sightings
The Cat Creature (1973) - Music by Leonard Rosenman - Film by Curtis Harrington
Besti?k (Beasts) (1993) - Music by Frank Zappa - Film by Varga Csaba & Igor Lazin
Danses Pytheuses
Apollon musag?te (1928) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Choreography by George Balanchine
2Solos (2008) - Music by Henryk G?recki - Choreography by Katharina Maschenka Horn
Here Wait (2010) – Music by Maggi Payne – Choreography by Alyssa Lee
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Cheng Chin Man: Three Sound (2000)
Jon Forhsee: Toscins (2001)
Philippe Hurel: Plein-jeu (2010)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Frank Zappa: Watermelon (1979)
John Luther Adams: Consecration, from "Coyote Builds North America" (1990)
Week of July 2, 2012
Featured Video Performance Sebastian Currier: Almost too much, from "Verge" (1997)
Featured Video Performance Elliott Bark: Neutral Tones (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful Anton Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28 (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful Leonard Bernstein: Benediction (Concerto for Orchestra, mvt 4) (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Patrick Harlin: Landscapes (2008), mvt 2
Featured Ensemble Firebird Ensemble (Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item highSCORE Festival (Pavia, Italy) July 23 - Aug 4, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas To What Degree: Teaching Musical Composition (Marilyn Shrude, NewMusicBox)
Week of July 9, 2012
Featured Video Performance Patrick Harlin: The Mechanist (American Sketch #3) (2008)
Featured Video Performance Robert Muczynski: Quintet for Winds, op. 45 (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Arnold Schoenberg: Das Buch der H?ngende G?rten, op. 15 (1908-09)
Featured Pytheas Earful Melinda Wagner: Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion (1998)
Featured Pytheas Earful Daron Hagen: Piano Trio No. 4, “Angel Band” mvt II (2007)
Featured Ensemble Guerilla Opera (Boston, MA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Izler Solomon Library (Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Hitchcock's Silent Movies to Get New Scores for Olympics (Stuart Kemp, Hollywood Reporter)
Week of July 16, 2012
Featured Video Performance Joseph Turrin: Two Portraits (1995)
Featured Video Performance Andr? Caplet: Deux Sonnets (1916/1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 4, "Deliciae Basiliensis" (1946)
Featured Pytheas Earful Samuel Adler: Requiescat in Pace (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Derek Bermel: Coming Together (1999)
Featured Ensemble The Rathbun-Rivera Duo (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Community Music Works (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Persona non grata: Frank Zappa's Orchestral Subculture (Arved Ashby, ISAM Newsletter)
Week of July 23, 2012
Featured Video Performance Frank Zappa: Outrage at Valdez (1990)
Featured Video Performance Chen Yi: Chinese Fables (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Vladimir Rebikov: Chansons Blanches (1913)
Featured Pytheas Earful Barbara Harbach: Carondolet Caprice (2007)
Featured Pytheas Earful Cheng Chin Man: Insane Colour (2003-04)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Adapter (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Ung Nordisk Musik/Young Nordic Music (Iceland) - Aug 28 - Sept 1, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Conversation About Time (Sebastian Currier and Rachel Shteir, Yaddo)
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June
2012Featured Composers
Carl Ruggles (1876-1971), American
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983), French
Harry Somers (1925-1999), Canadian
Chinary Ung (1942- ), Cambodian
Robert Beaser (1954- ), American
Pertti Jalava (1960- ), Finnish
Robert David Rusconi (1972- ), Italian-British
Vivian Fung (1975- ), Canadian
Inhyun Kim (1985- ), South Korean-American
Featured Recordings
Carl Ruggles: The Complete Works (Other Minds) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Ruth Sch?nthal - On A Bird Over Jerusalem
Alan Silvestri on “The Polar Express” (ASCAP Audio Portraits)
Nico Muhly (ASCAP Audio Portraits)
Pytheas Sightings
XINGU (2012) - Music by Ann Milliken - Video by Ann Milliken
Hymn (2005) – Music by Kati Ag?cs – Film/Video by Eli Stine
Danses Pytheuses
Daughter of the Wind (2009) – Music by Inhyun Kim – Choreography by Eun joo Kang
Surfer at the River Styx (2000) - Music by Donald Knaack & David Kahne - Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Apollon musag?te (1928) - Music by Igor Stravinsky - Choreography by George Balanchine
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Rolf den Otter and Othmar Schimmel: Soundscape Amsterdam V=S/t (1995)
Douglas Lilburn: Fragments of a Poem (1966)
Cheng Chin Man: Three Sound (2000)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Emmanuel S?journ?: Vouz Avez du Feu? (2001)
Steve Reich: Sextet (1984)
Week of June 4, 2012
Featured Video Performance Harry Somers: Northern Lights (1988)
Featured Video Performance Vivian Fung: Chant, from Glimpses (2006)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carl Nielsen: An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands (1927)
Featured Pytheas Earful Chinary Ung: Khse Buon (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Pertti Jalava: Pinta (Surface) (2002)
Featured Ensemble Remix Ensemble (Porto, Portugal)
Featured Festival or Item livingroomMUSIC.org (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers (PW20C)
Week of June 11, 2012
Featured Video Performance Chinary Ung: In Memoriam (2007) [“Spiral X”???]
Featured Video Performance Germaine Tailleferre: Guitare (c. 1960)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert Beaser: Lontano, ero con te, from "Songs from the Occasions" (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gy?rgy Ligeti: Piano Concerto (1985-88)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert David Rusconi: Polymorphosis (2009)
Featured Ensemble New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Arts Electric (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Inventing Finnish Music (Kimmo Korhonen, FIMIC)
Week of June 18, 2012
Featured Video Performance Vivian Fung: Violin Concerto (2011)
Featured Video Performance Elliott Schwartz: Darwin's Dream II (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carl Ruggles: Portals (1925)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Harbison: Confinement (1965)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gregory Hall: Water – Two Poems of W.S. Merwin (2005)
Featured Ensemble Echo Ensemble for New Music (Berlin, Germany)
Featured Festival or Item Mizzou New Music Summer Festival (Columbia, Missouri, USA) - July 23-28, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Dance Revolution: The Music of Philip Glass (Melissa Lesnie, Limelight Magazine)
Week of June 25, 2012
Featured Video Performance Aaron Copland: Clarinet Concerto (1949)
Featured Video Performance Michel van der Aa: Transit (2009)
Featured Pytheas Earful Harry Somers: Allegro scherzando from Piano Sonata No. 5 (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kile Smith: Symphony: Lumen ad revelationem (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Inhyun Kim: Saxophone Quartet I (2008)
Featured Ensemble Strung Out Trio (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Waxidermy (world wide web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Composing Collaborations – Between Gamelan and New Music Chamber Ensembles (GetClassical.org/My Voice)
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May
2012Featured Composers
Allan Pettersson (1911-1980), Swedish
Jean Fran?aix (1912-1997), French
Philip Carlsen (1951- ), American
Douglas Knehans (1957- ), American
Stella Sung (1959- ), American
Kristin Norderval (1960- ), American
Emmanuel S?journ? (1961- ), French
R?gis Campo (1968- ), French
Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- ), American
Featured Recordings
Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life (New World Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Gernot Wolfgang - Common Ground (Albany Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Art Fire Soul - Piano Works of Judith Lang Zaimont (MSR Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Stella Sung: Interview with Charna Davis Wiese (UCF In Print)
Kenji Bunch - Composer Portrait (American Composers Orchestra)
Ruth Sch?nthal - On A Bird Over Jerusalem (The Milken Archive of Jewish Music)
Pytheas Sightings
For A Few Dollars More (1965) - Music by Ennio Morricone - Film by Sergio Leone
Papoose (2011) - Music by Kristin Norderval - Film by Jill Sigman
Fallen (1998) - Music by Tan Dun - Film by Gregory Hoblit
Danses Pytheuses
Exauc?/Salt (1998) - Music by David Lang - Choreography by ?douard Lock
Rupture (2007) - Music by Kristen Norderval - Choreography by Jill Sigman
Daughter of the Wind (2009) – Music by Inhyun Kim – Choreography by Eun joo Kang
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Fran?ois Bayle: Morceaux de Ciels (1996)
Ed Wright: Harpset (2007)
Rolf den Otter and Othmar Schimmel: Soundscape Amsterdam V=S/t (1995)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Luciano Berio: Circles (1960)
Inhyun Kim: When insight comes in a dream, part IV (2011)
Da Jeong Choi: Reflection in the Glass (2008)
Week of May 1, 2012
Featured Video Performance R?gis Campo: Les Quatre Jumelles (2009)
Featured Video Performance Emmanuel S?journ?: Nancy (1985)
Featured Pytheas Earful Allan Pettersson: Symphony No. 7 (1967)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nancy Bloomer Deussen: Carmel by-the-Sea (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stella Sung: Three Dances for Flute and Piano (1990)
Featured Ensemble G?NIA - pianist, educator and producer (London, England)
Featured Festival or Item SONM - Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art (Murcia, Spain)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas A Master of Synthesis: An Interview with Tania Le?n (David Canfield, Fanfare Magazine)
Week of May 7, 2012
Featured Video Performance Jean Fran?aix: Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra (1991)
Featured Video Performance Sergei Prokofiev: The Ugly Duckling (1914)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henri Tomasi: Requiem pour la paix (1944)
Featured Pytheas Earful Clermont P?pin: Symphony No. 2 (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful John Psathas: Summary of the Human Presence (2011)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Resonance (Calgary, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Southwest Festival of New Music (Sante Fe New Music, New Mexico, USA) - June 21-23, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas 5 Questions to Lynn Bechtold (Thomas Deneuville, I Care If You Listen)
Week of May 14, 2012
Featured Video Performance Augusta Read Thomas: Rush (2004)
Featured Video Performance Igor Stravinsky: Septet (1953)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carl Ruggles: Men and Mountains (1924-1936)
Featured Pytheas Earful Zhou Long: Words of the Sun (1982; rev. 1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Douglas Knehans: ripple (2002)
Featured Ensemble Synchromy Music (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Contemporary New York Composers: A Performance (FORA.tv)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Great Expectations: The Challenge of New Music In New Spaces (Dustin Soiseth, NewMusicBox)
Week of May 21, 2012
Featured Video Performance R?gis Campo: Pop-Art (2002)
Featured Video Performance Henri Tomasi: ?tre ou ne pas ?tre (To be or not to be) (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carlos Ch?vez: Tambuco (1964)
Featured Pytheas Earful Allan Pettersson: Viola Concerto (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kaija Saariaho: Aile du Songe (2000)
Featured Ensemble Soundfield (Chicago, Philadelphia, San Fransisco, USA)
Featured Festival or Item June in Buffalo (State University of New York at Buffalo) - June 4-10, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Classical Duo Mark Women's History Month (Rob Enslin, Syracuse University News)
Week of May 28, 2012
Featured Video Performance Jean Fran?aix: Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano (1990)
Featured Video Performance Ruth Sch?nthal: Passion Music, from "65 Celebrations" (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful M. Camargo Guarnieri: Brazilian Dance (1941)
Featured Pytheas Earful Judith Zaimont: Virgie Rainey - Two Narratives (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ryan Anthony Francis: Woman Bird and Star (2004)
Featured Ensemble Toronto Percussion Ensemble (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item Spitalfields Music - Summer Festival (London, England) - June 8-23, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas American Mavericks (edited by Susan Key and Larry Rothe, San Francisco Symphony)
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April
2012Featured Composers
Scott Joplin (1868-1917), American
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971), French
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003), Italian
Ruth Sch?nthal (1924-2006), German-American
Ton Bruyn?l (1934-1998) , Dutch
William Bolcom (1938- ), American
Michael Torke (1961- ), American
Olga Neuwirth (1968- ), Austrian
Ricardo Romaneiro (1979- ), Brazilian
Featured Recordings
Frances White: Centre Bridge: Electroacoustic Works (Mode Records 184) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Michael Torke: Tahiti (Ecstatic Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Judith Zaimont Interview/2012 (Minnesota Public Radio)
Frederic Rzewski Visits America (NewMusicBox)
Pytheas Sightings
Ballet mecanique (1924) – Music by George Antheil - Film by Fernand L?ger & Dudley Murphy
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) - Music by Elmer Bernstein - Film by Martin Scorsese
For A Few Dollars More (1965) - Music by Ennio Morricone - Film by Sergio Leone
Danses Pytheuses
Abstract Theatre (2008) - Music: Krist?f W?ber - Rozi B?k?s' and D?niel Erd?ly's play based on Bauhaus Theatre
Number Nine (2011) – based on “Ash” (1991) – Music by Michael Torke – Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Pierre Boulez: La Symphonie m?chanique (1955)
Ton Bruyn?l: Reflexes (1961)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (1971)
Milton Babbitt: Beaten Paths (1988)
Luciano Berio: Circles (1960)
Week of April 2, 2012
Featured Video Performance Ruth Sch?nthal: Str Qt #3/In Memorian Holocaust, mvt 1
Featured Video Performance Patricio da Silva: Guitar Concerto (2010)
Featured Pytheas Earful Henri Tomasi: Ballade for Saxophone (1938)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Torke: Green (Verdant Music) (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jennifer Higdon: Violin Concerto No. 1 (2008)
Featured Ensemble Piano Spheres (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Ives Project (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Eisenstein’s Film-Symphony Project, Que viva Mexico! (Robert Robertson, Offscreen)
Week of April 9, 2012
Featured Video Performance Olga Neuwirth: Torsion (2002)
Featured Video Performance Qu Xiao-Song: Silent Mountain (1994)
Featured Pytheas Earful Goffredo Petrassi: Fanfare per tre trombe in do (1944; rev. 1976)
Featured Pytheas Earful Stephen Paulus: The Road Home (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Missy Mazzoli: Still Life With Avalanche (2008)
Featured Ensemble Iktus - Percussion Quartet (Purchase, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival (Portland, ME, USA) - April 14 & 15, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Six Canadian Composers You Should Know (Colin Eatock)
Week of April 16, 2012
Featured Video Performance Michael Torke: Yellow Pages (1985), from Telephone Bk
Featured Video Performance Frances White: The Old Rose Reader (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful Scott Joplin: Magnetic Rag (1914)
Featured Pytheas Earful William Bolcom: Graceful Ghost (1970)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ricardo Romaneiro: Ventos (2007)
Featured Ensemble Stroma (Wellington, New Zealand)
Featured Festival or Item The Tone Generation (World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas So What? (George Grella, The Drift)
Week of April 23, 2012
Featured Video Performance Mason Bates: Mothership (2010)
Featured Video Performance William Bolcom: The Serpent's Kiss (1969)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carl Orff: Trionfo di Afrodite (1949-51)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tina Davidson: Seven Macabre Songs (1979)
Featured Pytheas Earful Olga Neuwirth: In Nacht und Eis (2007)
Featured Ensemble Empyrean Ensemble (University of California at Davis, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Balkanicus: Balkan Contemporary Music Concert (University of Minnesota) - April 29, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Lend Me a Pick Ax: Dismantling of the Compositional Gender Divide (Lisa Hirsch, NewMusicBox)
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March
2012Featured Composers
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Swiss-American
Michel Legrand (1932- ), French
R. Murray Schafer (1933- ), Canadian
Tania Le?n (1943- ), Cuban
Marjan Mozetich (1948- ), Canadian
Stephen Hartke (1952- ), American
David Glaser (1952- ), American
Annie Gosfield (1960- ), American
Lowell Liebermann (1961- ), American
Featured Recordings
Wolfgang Rihm: Musik f?r Oboe und Orch; etc (H?nssler 093.185.000) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Stephen Hartke: Tituli; Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (ECM 1861) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Frances White: Centre Bridge: Electroacoustic Works (Mode Records 184) also CD Review, sample audio files and itune
Composer Portraits
Phil Kline - Unsilent Night
R. Murray Schafer: On Soundscapes and Composing
Pytheas Sightings
Fallen Angel (1945) - Music by David Raksin - Film by Otto Preminger
The Go-Between (1970) - Music by Michel Legrand - Film by Joseph Losey
Ballet mecanique (1924) – Music by George Antheil - Film by Fernand L?ger & Dudley Murphy
Danses Pytheuses
LP (2002) - Music by Vitor Joaquim - Choreography by Rui Horta
un state (2008) - Music by Dohee Lee & Jethro DeHart - Choreography by Yannis Adoniou
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Rolf den Otter: Virgo (1993)
David Tudor: Rainforest (1968)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John Cage: Amores (1943)
Lynn Glassock: Teamwork (1996)
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (1971)
Week of March 5, 2012
Featured Video Performance Ernest Bloch: In The Mountains (1925), from "Landscapes"
Featured Video Performance Annie Gosfield: Shoot The Player Piano (1999)
Featured Pytheas Earful Carlos Ch?vez: Xochipilli (1940)
Featured Pytheas Earful Nancy van de Vate: Violin Concerto No. 1 (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful Lowell Liebermann: Gargoyles [no. 1] (1989)
Featured Ensemble Pianists Bridget Convey, Chiharu Naruse and Annie Antonacos
Featured Festival or Item Zauberhafte KlangmaschinenMusical Sound Machines (Institute of Media Archaeology)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Week of March 12, 2012
Featured Video Performance Lawrence Dillon: Poke (2011)
Featured Video Performance Tania Le?n: Sa?ko (1997)
Featured Pytheas Earful Virgil Thomson: Three Antiphonal Psalms (1924)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tadeusz Baird: Epiphany Music (1963)
Featured Pytheas Earful Annie Gosfield: Marked by a Hat (2003)
Featured Ensemble counter)induction (New York, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Women in Music Festival 2012, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, March 26-31, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Father of Acoustic Ecology: R. Murray Schafer (Anjula Razdan, Utne Reader)
Week of March 19, 2012
Featured Video Performance Lowell Liebermann: Quartet for Piano and Strings (2010)
Featured Video Performance Ernest Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1919)
Featured Pytheas Earful R. Murray Schafer: East (1973)
Featured Pytheas Earful Marjan Mozetich: Dance of the Blind (1980)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gyan Riley: Sonata Quasifantokastica (2001) - Quasitremelodo
Featured Ensemble E.A.R. Unit (Castaic, California, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Musinfo - The Database of Swiss Music
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Ernest Bloch: Composer in Nature's University (Nancy Steinberg, Oregon Council for the Arts)
Week of March 26, 2012
Featured Video Performance Stephen Hartke: The Horse with the Lavender Eye (1997)
Featured Video Performance Andre Caplet: Messe a Troix Voix (1920) - Kyrie
Featured Pytheas Earful Jacques Ibert: Ghirlarzana (1950)
Featured Pytheas Earful Earle Brown: Music for Cello and Piano (1955)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kinan Azmeh: A Sad Morning, Every Morning (2012)
Featured Ensemble Parthenia (New York, NY, USA)
Featured Festival or Item The World Listening Project
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Parthenia Ventures into New Music for Viols (David Glaser, Early Music America)
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February
2012Featured Composers
Walter Piston (1894-1976), American
David Raksin (1912-2004), American
Manuel Enr?quez (1926-1994), Mexican
Ayser Van?in (1948- ), Turkish
Alexina Louie (1949- ), Canadian
Michael Schelle (1950- ), American
Wolfgang Rihm (1952- ), German
Federico Schumacher (1963- ), Chilean
Todd Goodman (1977- ), American
Featured Recordings
Alexina Louie - Shattered Night, Shivering Stars (CBC SMCD5190) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Wolfgang Rihm: Musik f?r Oboe und Orch; etc (H?nssler 093.185.000) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Olivier Messiaen - On Debussy and Colour
Marjan Mozetich - Composer Portrait
Dominick Argento - The Composer's Voice (Minnesota Public Radio)
Pytheas Sightings
Dialogos (2008) - Music by Mirjam Tally - Animated Film by ?lo Pikkov
Klang-Film (2005) - Music by Mario Verandi - Film by Harum Farocki
Fallen Angel (1945) - Music by David Raksin - Film by Otto Preminger
Danses Pytheuses
Fanfare (2011) - Music by Michael Nyman - Choreography by Naomi Goldberg Haas
Tiny Temple (2009) - Music by Bernadette Speach - Choreography by Anne Burnidge
Triadic Ballet (1922) - Music by Paul Hindemith - Developed by Oskar Schlemmer
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Federico Schumacher: Jetlag + 6Hrs (2006)
Manuel Enr?quez: Viols (1971)
Mario Verandi: Klangbuch der imaginaeren Wesen (2007)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
John Beck: Interactions for Timpani and Sound (1996)
David T. Little: Speak Softly (2004)
John Cage: Amores (1943)
Week of February 1, 2012
Featured Video Performance Wolfgang Rihm: In-Schrift (1995), excerpt
Featured Video Performance Michael Schelle: Straight, No Lithium (2010), mvt 1
Featured Pytheas Earful Walter Piston: Duo for Viola and Violoncello (1949)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alexina Louie: Winter Music (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Todd Goodman: These Valleys Never Heard (2004)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Robot (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Featured Festival or Item temp'?ra (France/World Wide Web)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Electroacoustic Music Incorporating Latin American Influences (Manuella Blackburn, CEC)
Week of February 6, 2012
Featured Video Performance Walter Piston: Piano Quintet (1949)
Featured Video Performance R?gis Campo: La tempesta (2005)
Featured Pytheas Earful Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress (1951), excerpts
Featured Pytheas Earful Ayser Van?in: Les plaintes d'un Icare (2004)
Featured Pytheas Earful Tania Le?n: Rimas Tropicales (2011)
Featured Ensemble Bent Frequency (Atlanta, GA, USA)
Featured Festival or Item NAC musicbox TIMELINE (ArtsAlive.ca)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas American Harmonies: The Music of Walter Piston (Leon Botstein, Amer Sym Orch)
Week of February 13, 2012
Featured Video Performance Alexina Louie: Toothpaste (2001)
Featured Video Performance Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphony (1948)
Featured Pytheas Earful Manuel Enr?quez: Rapsodia Latinoamericana (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Steve Martland: Principia (1989)
Featured Pytheas Earful Christopher Marshall: Synergy, from "Three Aspects of Spring" (1995)
Featured Ensemble Musique 21 (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
Featured Festival or Item La Comunidad Electroac?stica de Chile/CECh (Chile)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas The Score - Interviews w/Film Composers (Michael Schelle/review by Nicholas Reyland, JFM)
Week of February 20, 2012
Featured Video Performance Elizabeth Vercoe: To Music (2003)
Featured Video Performance Marjan Mozetich: Toccata (1984)
Featured Pytheas Earful Alfredo Casella: Concerto for Strings, Piano, Timp and Percussion (1943)
Featured Pytheas Earful David Raksin: Scherzo, from "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952)
Featured Pytheas Earful Federico Schumacher: Estrellas Compactas (2003)
Featured Ensemble ELISION Ensemble (Queensland, Australia)
Featured Festival or Item Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (University of Belfast, Ireland), Mar 22-27, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Boom Times for Art Song: A HyperHistory of Poetry and Music (Johanna Keller, NewMusicBox)
Week of February 27, 2012
Featured Video Performance Elliott Carter: Mirror on Which to Dwell (1975): Anaphora
Featured Video Performance Walter Piston: Flute Sonata (1930)
Featured Pytheas Earful Andr? Caplet: ?tude symphonique (1908)
Featured Pytheas Earful Kaija Saariaho: Grammaire des r?ves/From the Grammar of Dreams (1988)
Featured Pytheas Earful Michael Schelle: End of the World (2011)
Featured Ensemble Standing Wave (Vancouver, Canada)
Featured Festival or Item MaerzMusik 2012 - Festival of Contemporary Music (Berlin, Germany), March 17-25, 2012
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Wolfgang Rihm: The Musical Omnivore (Tom Service, The Guardian)
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January
2012Featured Composers
Colin McPhee (1900-1964), Canadian-American
Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), American
Kurt Schwertsik (1935- ), Austrian
Ney Rosauro (1952- ), Brazilian
Danny Elfman (1953- ), American
Robert McCauley (1958- ), American
Julia Wolfe (1958- ), American
Ramon Lazkano (1968- ), Spanish Basque
David T. Little (1978- ), American
Featured Recordings
Elizabeth Hoffman: Modus Nodus (Albany Records) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Gloria Coates: String Qt No. 9, Sonata For Violin Solo; Lyric Suite (Naxos) also CD Review, sample audio files and itunes
Composer Portraits
Melinda Wagner - On Composing for Orchestra
David T. Little - Witness in Sound (NewMusicBox)
Olivier Messiaen - On Debussy and Colour
Pytheas Sightings
Hangover Square (1945) - Music by Bernard Herrmann - Film by John Brahm
Globeland (2002) – Music by Elizabeth Hoffman – Video by Ryan Dorin
Danses Pytheuses
Turning in the Widening Gyre (1999) - Shostokovich [8th String Quartet] - Choreography by Paul Mosley
Constellations (2008) - Music by Stella Sung - Choreography by Kim
Fanfare (2011) - Music by Michael Nyman - Choreography by Naomi Goldberg Haas
Sound Art - Electronic, Tape, Computer & Electroacoustic Music
Elizabeth Hoffman: Vissera (2010)
Barry Truax: Riverrun (1986)
Federico Schumacher: Jetlag + 6Hrs (2006)
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Ney Rosauro: Prelude and Blues (1993)
Mauricio Kagel: Dressur (1977)
Week of January 2, 2012
Featured Video Performance Colin McPhee: Nocturne (1958)
Featured Video Performance Julia Wolfe: Dark Full Ride (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Edgar Var?se: Arcana (1925-27)
Featured Pytheas Earful Gloria Coates: Cantata da Requiem "WW II Poems for Peace" (1972)
Featured Pytheas Earful Robert McCauley: In the Playroom, from"My American Childhood"(2002)
Featured Ensemble Tactus (Manhattan School of Music, NY, New York, USA)
Featured Festival or Item Integra - Fusing Music and Technology (Birmingham Conservatoire, UK)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas When Words Are Not Enough (Timya, Everything2)
Week of January 9, 2012
Featured Video Performance Ramon Lazkano: Wintersonnenwende (2005)
Featured Video Performance Mikael Karlsson: Nattvittje (2011)
Featured Pytheas Earful Wallingford Riegger: Symphony No. 4 (1957)
Featured Pytheas Earful Thea Musgrave: Narcissus (1987)
Featured Pytheas Earful Julia Wolfe: Believing (1997)
Featured Ensemble Ensemble Nuove Musiche (Italy)
Featured Festival or Item Archives of Contemporary Music (University of Trento, Italy)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas 20th Century Music (Jack Logan, San Diego State University)
Week of January 16, 2012
Featured Video Performance Robert McCauley: Kamrick Variations (2010)
Featured Video Performance Richard Danielpour: Three Preludes (2003), nos. 1 & 2
Featured Pytheas Earful Albert Roussel: String Quartet in D major, op. 45 (1932)
Featured Pytheas Earful Miriam Gideon: Of Shadows Numberless (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Jakub Ciupinski: The Architect's Brother (2006)
Featured Ensemble London Sinfonietta (London, England)
Featured Festival or Item Electronic Music Studies Network (Electronic Music Foundation, Troy, NY)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas 24 Hours Proves Enough Time to Create a Symphony (Kevin Vogel, Butler Collegian)
Week of January 23, 2012
Featured Video Performance Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Vibraphone (1996)
Featured Video Performance Dmitri Tymoczko: Piano Games (2002)
Featured Pytheas Earful Johannes Fritsch: Modulation I (1966)
Featured Pytheas Earful Olivier Messiaen: Un vitrail et des oiseaux (1986)
Featured Pytheas Earful David T. Little: Dear Atticus, from "Vinkensport or, The Finch Opera" (2010)
Featured Ensemble JCFA Composers' Orchestra (Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Featured Festival or Item I Care If You Listen (Thomas Deneuville, editor)
Featured Thoughts & Ideas Generation of '38 (Part 1): Sounding Together While Sounding Apart (Judith Tick, New Music Box)
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Composer Portraits Archive - New Music Composers Speak
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 Sightings Archive - New Music in Film
Danses Pytheuses - New Music for Dance
Sound Art - New Electroacoustic Music
Bang, Clang and Beat - New Music for Percussion
Pytheas Featured Ensembles
Pytheas Featured Thoughts & Ideas
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