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Ives Violin Sonata #4 and our Present Moment in US History

3 September 2024
Ives, a Greenwich Village composer in his younger days, will be represented in The Village Trip lineup with his Violin Sonata #4 performed by violinist David Fulmer and pianist Joan …
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Metaphors for the "Extended Common Practice"

18 August 2024
Metaphors and Analogies I’m staking out some positions running up to >The microtonal Village< – an important part of a weekend of concerts September 19 through 22. The Village Trip American Primitive and Inventors of Genius …
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Music and Oulipo

17 May 2024
October 10 7:30 at Loft393 there will a preview of Trevor Bača-Paul Griffiths’ when the time comes featuring actress Nancy Robinette, director Joy Zinoman and Cygnus. This project is a first in theater, where the musicians as musicians are …
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Joel Suben Where All the Waters Meet

22 April 2024
Suben Memorial Scorca Hall starting at 11 AM on May 4 330 7th Ave 7th Floor New York, NY 10001 When I was studying composition with Joel Suben, he avowed a deep love of Carter. And he expressed a reservation. Sometimes Carter “hangs his …
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Lachenmann

20 April 2024
Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt presents 21st-Century Wanderers: Jonathan HARVEY / Helmut LACHENMANN Manuel LAUFER, piano Dorothea HAYLEY, soprano Friday, December 13 (2021? during Covid?) at 8 pm Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East I …
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Back to Brokeback Mountain

18 March 2024
Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain I come back to Brokeback Mountain from time to time. There are elusive mysteries lurking in Wuorinen’s great work and in Proulx’s short story. I’ve taken this dive before and each time I hope to get …
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De Staat; A Tale of Two Synecdoches

16 March 2024
depicted: Adalbert Stifter Intro to Stifter’s *Many Colored Stones* A Tale of Two Synecdoches I met Louis Andriessen when I played De Staadt with NY Phil under Gunther Schuller. David Starobin was the other guitarist and Scott Kuney played bass. …
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Emil Awad: Cognitive and Behaviorist in Music

11 February 2024
The brilliant and enterprising composer Emil Awad is the founder and director of the Festival Camarata 21 at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many of us have participated – Mario Davidovsky, Robert Pollock, Suzanne Farrin, …
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