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12 November 2020
Flat Earth & Aggregates
(wonky, for musicians, but not wonky enough for theorists)
In the early 16th Century Magellan circumnavigated the globe. At around the same time, musicians navigated the circle of fifths. During the few moments when the US …
12 November 2020
November 12, 2020 Dan Lippel & New Focus Records produces a recording of Charles Wuorinen’s Electric Quartet (2013)
Dan Lippel, Oren Fader, John Chang and William Anderson, guitars
Ryan Streber, producer/engineer – Oktaven Studios, Mount …
6 November 2020
Iao Theater, Wailuku, Mauik Maui, Hawai’i
multimedia performance presented by Ebb & Flow Arts
Upcoming on Furious Artisans
E n t e r t w i n e d
Robert Pollock Five Decades
Pollock’s music is unique, and uniquely American.His sound …
11 November 2019
RSF supported Bridge Records’ *George Crumb Vol. 16*
Cygnus pianist Joan Forsyth is a regular at Sonatina Enterprises. She recently lectured on nocturnes for the pianists from far and wide, assembled in Bennington for one of the …
7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time.
Links to sound or video are in the works.
I consulted with Harold Bloom
when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration.
In the end, Bloom …
13 October 2019
This was written in 2019, when I did not know that Brouwer had studied with Wolpe. Blame the late Frank Brickle for drilling it into me that Morton Feldman’s broken symmetries come from Wolpe. In the early 70s (?) Brickle was studying Feldman and …
22 January 2019
Kevin Volans spoke at a 2016 IAMIC conference–
“If You Need An Audience, We Don’t Need You”
“[Morton] Feldman believed, as many generations before him, and some after him, that art was not to be confused with …
12 October 2018
….the last bar of Terry Riley’s Y Bolanzero, for guitar orchestra–a wierd 8-note collection with no G#, no F#, no B, no D#….
Austrian guitar virtuoso Yvonne Zehner will be principal player with a crack group of Queens College …
