April 2012
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A dictionary of foreign musical terms and handbook...
By Tom S. Wotton | Book contributor: Music - University of Toronto
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Joyce | Berio
James Joyce inspired many contemporary composers, for example Luciano Berio’s
Thema: Omaggio a Joyce (1958) in which Cathy Berberian’s recitation of chapter eleven of Joyce’s Ulysses is transformed electronically.
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“I attempted to establish a new relationship between speech and music, in which a discontinuous metamorphoses of one into the other can be...
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VARIATIONS #2 - The Globe
VARIATIONS #2 - The Globe - 12.06.2009 - Curated by Jon Leidecker
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+ info: Transcript [PDF]
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John Cage - The Works for Percussion 1
John Cage : The Works for Percussion 1 : Imaginary Landscapes (complete); Credo in US (2 versions)
Percussion Group Cincinnati : mode 229
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Carl Stone in conversation with William Winant and...
kusc.org - Pacific Standard Time
Carl Stone in conversation with William Winant and Gordon Mumma
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kusc.org - Pacific Standard Time - on John Cage
kusc.org - Pacific Standard Time
Dorothy Crawford in conversation with Franz van Ossum - Dorothy Crawford speaks with John Cage biographer Franz van Ossum about the composer’s life in Los Angeles in the 1930s. Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912.
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April 6 - Stravinsky
April 6, 1971 composer Igor Stravinsky died at age 88
wikipedia.org : Igor Stravinsky
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Bernstein and Copland Discuss American Music
1950 Tanglewood Roundtable with Bernstein, Copland, Fine and Foss | 1997 New Sounds with Morton Subotnick
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“In this 1950 appearance at Tanglewood, American luminaries Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Irving Fine and Lukas Foss gathered together around a piano and engaged in a freewheeling and multifaceted examination of what gives American music its special...
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Klangcollage — [sculpture musicale] — Sound...
Inofficial contribution to the American Maverick Festival [NY, March 8-30, 2012]
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Klangcollage — [sculpture musicale] — Sound collage for John Cage | By Ralph Lichtensteiger
Instruments: analog Tape Recorders operating at the same time, plus modified turntable
Please use decent headphones or speakers when listening to my music, thank you.
© 2008/2012 by Ralph Lichtensteiger...
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Maverick Mixtapes - Tyondai Braxton
Maverick Mixtapes Streams Weekdays from March 8-30 at 2 PM
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Playlist : Conlon Nancarrow, Glenn Branca, Lou Harrison, Anthony Braxton, Morton Subotnick, George Antheil
wqxr.org : American Mavericks - A Multi-Dimensional Celebration of America’s Ground-Breaking, Maverick Composers (March 8-30, 2012)
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Alarm Will Sound Perform John Cage and Edgard...
Live from Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts and American Maverick Festival
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John Cage Remembers Schoenberg and Talks 4:33
Host Tim Page Speaks with John Cage in This 1985 Meet The Composer
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wqxr.org : American Mavericks - A Multi-Dimensional Celebration of America’s Ground-Breaking, Maverick Composers (March 8-30, 2012)
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Conlon Nancarrow and Trimpin Discuss Music and...
Charles Amirkhanian Speaks with Conlon Nancarrow and Trimpin in This Speaking of Music
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wqxr.org : American Mavericks - A Multi-Dimensional Celebration of America’s Ground-Breaking, Maverick Composers (March 8-30, 2012)
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Tony Schwartz - 30,000 Recordings Later
Series: Lost & Found Sound
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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We should celebrate Debussy by assessing his real...
We should celebrate Debussy by assessing his real legacy | Music | guardian.co.uk
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Why 'Sound and Music' is failing today's composers
Why ‘Sound and Music’ is failing today’s composers | Music | guardian.co.uk
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March 2012
13 posts
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Terry Riley on Pandit Pran Nath
Terry Riley on Pandit Pran Nath (October 22, 1971) - Charles Amirkhanian and Harvey Wallerstin talk with composers Terry Riley and Jordan Stenberg about their studies with Pandit Pran Nath
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Lou Harrison Tunes the Gamelan for Western Ears
wqxr.org : ’From The Archives’ Streams Weekdays from March 8-30 at 7 am and 8 pm on Q2 Music
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Terry Riley Remembers In C
wqxr.org : New Sounds with Terry Riley and Host Jon Schaefer, from 2009
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John Cage speaking in 1978
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American Mavericks: Cage Songbooks (Review Video)
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American Mavericks: Cage Songbooks (Review Video)
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wqxr.org - Steve Reich: An Era-Defining Maximalist
The Always Young, Maximalist Icon Introduces His Music - By Daniel Stephen Johnson
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Ornette Coleman's The Shape Of Jazz To Come
archive.org : Community Audio > Luscombe’s Choice: Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come
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wikipedia.org : The Shape of Jazz to Come
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John Coltrane's Africa/Brass
archive.org : Community Audio > Luscombe’s Choice: John Coltrane’s Africa/Brass (1961).
This was the album that the American modernist composers of the early 1960s - Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich - looked to for their initial inspiration…
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wikipedia.org : Africa/Brass
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Tumblr Composers Project
Check it out at tmblrcomposers.tumblr.com
A wonderful project by Andrew (exceededharmony.tumblr.com) and Sam (ifnyousayso.tumblr.com)
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Bill Fontana
Bill Fontana: River Soundings installation at Somerset House
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by Sound and Music
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LECTURE - Tom Oberheim
Tom Oberheim : Get up close and personal with the creator of one of the most influential hit machines of all time
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via redbullmusicacademy.com
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Records Music - Charles Rice Goff III
Records Music : Charles Rice Goff III & Michael LaGrega : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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January 2012
1 post
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Das Pizzicato auf der Violine
Das Pizzicato auf der Violine [PDF]
Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades „Magistra Artium“ eingereicht von Aya Georgieva
December 2011
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Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage
WATCH/VIDEO #01: Biography PART 1
WATCH/VIDEO #01: Biography PART 2
Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage documentary film (Uplink Factory, Japan, 2006) music by John Cage, Ingo Metzmarcher, Hermann Ktetzschmar, David Tudor, Ensemble modern film by Klaus Lindemann presented by the Alte oper Frankfurt
via multimeios
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Elliott Carter - Happy 103rd birthday!
I would like to wish Elliott Carter today a happy 103rd birthday!
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1948)
LISTEN part 4 [05:36]
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
wqxr.org : League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Orchestra of the League of Composers Season Finale with works by Babbitt, Carter and Treuting
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Hosted by: Nadia Sirota
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Celebrating the ageless music of Elliott Carter
wqxr.org : Forever Young - Celebrating the ageless music of Elliott Carter
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Hosted by: Olivia Giovetti
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Elliott Carter - Quintet for Piano and Winds...
Quintet for Piano and Winds [1/3]
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Quintet for Piano and Winds [2/3]
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Quintet for Piano and Winds [3/3]
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Carter’s Quintet for Piano and Winds of 1991 explores the drama of how instruments from the different families (piano, horn and reed) work with, within and against one another.
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Wagner's Ring of Anti-Semitism: Can the Artist Be...
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Naomi Lewin is joined by three experts:
Roberto Paternostro is music director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In July, he led the ensemble in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – along with works by Jewish composers – at the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is director of Interfaith Affairs at The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. He...
November 2011
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Composer Portrait - William Schuman
William Schuman (1910-1992)
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Q2 Music · Michael Gordon
wqxr.org : Q2 Music : The Electric and Kinetic Sound World of Michael Gordon · Q2 Music’s First of Four November Portraits of Scene-Stealing, Living Composers
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Vinylmania
VINYLMANIA: when life runs at 33 revolutions per minute · A Film & Video project in Torino, Italy by Paolo Campana
kickstarter.com | VIDEO
September 2011
84 posts
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Michael Tippett · Piano Sonata No. 1
Michael Tippett (1905-1998) · Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936/1937, rev. 1942 e 1954) · Nicholas Unwin, piano
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“Tippett originally intended the first movement of Piano Sonata No. 1 as a set of variations on an original theme. He completed the sonata in 1938, published it in 1942. The original name was Fantasy Sonata since it departed from the usual four movement classical sonata form with a...
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Red Bull Music Academy and RBMA Radio · Steve...
Red Bull Music Academy and RBMA Radio · Steve Reich · The Music Maker
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Electric Independence · Morton Subotnick
The latest episode of Electronic Independence features electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick.
Subotnick gives a tour of his New York studio and discusses his career, working with Don Buchla, the Buchla Series 100 modular synthesizer and working with Ableton Live.
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via motherboard.tv
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Arthur Berger · Duo for Cello and Piano
Arthur Berger · Duo for Cello and Piano (1951) · Joel Krosnick, cello · Gilbert Kalish, piano
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Arthur Berger’s Duo for Cello and Piano (1951), called “diatonic Webern” by Milton Babbitt, focuses on C major and shows a synthesis of traits from the Quartet for Winds: large melodic leaps, Baroque rhythm and counterpoint, and a dance-like lilt (found in the second movement of...
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George Perle · Six Celebratory Inventions
George Perle · Six Celebratory Inventions · Michael Brown, Piano · Cleveland, July 2009
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web : georgeperle.net
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James Tenney · Spectrum 3
James Tenney · Spectrum 3 · For chamber ensemble (1995)
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Roger Sessions · Piano Sonata No. 3
Roger Sessions · Piano Sonata No. 3 (1965) · 1. Adagio e misterioso, sostenuto · Robert Helps, piano
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Exquisite Labyrinth · The Music of Pierre Boulez
Exquisite Labyrinth: The Music of Pierre Boulez · Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, composer Nico Muhly, violinist Clio Gould and Gillian Moore, Southbank Centre’s Head of Contemporary Culture, discuss Southbank Centre’s weekend festival Exquisite Labyrinth: the music of Pierre Boulez. The festival takes place from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October 2011.
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Indeterminacy · John Cage
Writer and performer Stewart Lee reads ‘Indeterminacy’ by John Cage with music by Tania Chen and Steve Beresford. · Extract from a live performance at St Georges Bristol, April 2011.
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wgbh.org · Berg and Poulenc
Marc-André Hamelin, piano James Campbell, clarinet
Alban Berg : Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano · at 29:35 Francis Poulenc : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano* · at 42:02
skip the Brahms piece and go directly to 29:35…
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* The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was among Poulenc’s final works and, like his Oboe Sonata, it dates from the summer of 1962. He...
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Louis Andriessen · De Staat · Anaïs Nin
Louis Andriessen discusses De Staat (The Republic) and Anaïs Nin (new work for singer, ensemble and film)
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