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21ST
CENTURY
MUSIC


2013


October

21ST CENTURY MUSIC October 2013 Volume 20, Number 10 PHILLIP GEORGE Oliver Knussen 1 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Coming Unstuck at Cabrillo 3 CAROL MARIE REYNOLDS Opus 8 4 CALENDAR For October 2013 5 CHRONICLE Of August 2013 6 WRITERS 8 ILLUSTRATIONS i Taka Kigawa, Le Poisson Rouge (August 26, 1013) iv, 2 Oliver Knussen 3 Philip Glass 4, 8 The Opus Project Presents Opus 4, 10 5 Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring 7 Elliott Carter ...



April

21ST CENTURY MUSIC April 2013 Volume 20, Number 4 MARK ALBURGER Sergei Prokofiev to 1918 1 PHILLIP GEORGE To Opus 50 for 13 Composers 3 ADAM BRONER Opus 2 at Berkeley Arts Festival 9 CALENDAR For April 2013 11 CHRONICLE Of February 2013 11 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv, 2 Sergei Prokofiev 3 Bela Bartok 4 Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern 5 Alban Berg, Sergei Prokofiev 10 Sarita Cannon ...



March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2013 Volume 20, Number 3 MARK ALBURGER Arnold Schoenberg to 1907 1 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Joan Jeanrenaud and Company 4 CALENDAR For March 2013 5 CHRONICLE Of January 2013 6 ILLUSTRATIONS i Frohliches Quintet, c. 1895, featuring mustachioed Fritz Kreisler and cellist Arnold Schoenberg iv Arnold Schoenberg, c. 1902 3 Arnold Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande 4 Joan Jeanrenaud 5 The Opus Project presents Opus 3 8 Loren Jones - Dancing on the Brink of the World ...



February

21ST CENTURY MUSIC February 2013 Volume 20, Number 2 MARK ALBURGER John Zorn 1 CHRONICLE Of December 2012 8 OPPORTUNITIES highScore 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv, 7 John Zorn 12 Dave Brubeck 12 Ravi Shankar ...



January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2013 Volume 20, Number 1 MARK ALBURGER Carlos Chavez 1 PHILLIP GEORGE Elliott Carter 4 CONCERT REVIEW Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH CALENDAR For January 2013 9 CHRONICLE Of November 2012 10 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv. Carlos Chavez 3 Mexico City 7 Elliott Carter 8 Gustavo Dudamel 9 Carlos Guastavino 12 Lisa Moore ...

2012


December

21ST CENTURY MUSIC December 2012 Volume 19, Number 12 MARK ALBURGER Hans Werner Henze 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Adventures Big and Small 5 Einstein on the Tour MICHAEL MCDONAGH CHRONICLE Of October 2012 6 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv. Hans Werner Henze 4 San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra 6 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach ...


November

21ST CENTURY MUSIC November 2012 Volume 19, Number 11 MARK ALBURGER Einstein on the Beach at 37 1 CALENDAR For November 2012 CHRONICLE Of September 2012 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv. Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach , 1975 2012 Montpellier, France Berkeley, California 3 Student-Alumni Composition Recital, Swarthmore College 4 Jerry Kuderna ...


October

21ST CENTURY MUSIC October 2012 Volume 19, Number 10 PHILLIP GEORGE Bang on a Can 1 CHRONICLE Of August 2012 2 RECORDING Pauline Oliveros: Reverberations 8 ILLUSTRATIONS i Grand Band, Bang on a Can Marathon, 2012 iv Bang on a Can - David Lang, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe 7 Grand Band, Le Poisson Rouge, 2012 8 Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations ...


June

21ST CENTURY MUSIC June 2012 Volume 19, Number 6 PHILLIP GEORGE Cage at 100 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Not Shy and Retiring Review 3 ERIK WILSON Khalife and Company 4 MICHAEL MCDONAGH John Cage Centenary Percussion 5 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of April 2012 6 RECORDINGS 8 ILLUSTRATIONS i John Cage, Paris 1981 iv Birthday Boy 3 Mark Alburger - The Decameron - Sarita Cannon, Wayne Wong 4 Marcel Khalife 7 John Cage - Living Room Music Sacramento State / UC Davis Percussion Ensembles 8 Innova Recordings ...

2011


May

21ST CENTURY MUSIC May 2011 Volume 18, Number 5 MARK ALBURGER An Uncommon Interview with Belinda Reynolds 1 Stooky Strikes Again with Marin Symphony 3 PHILLIP GEORGE Of March 2011 4 i, 12 Igor Stravinsky - The Nightingale iv Belinda Reynolds ...


April

21ST CENTURY MUSIC April 2011 Volume 18, Number 4 MARK ALBURGER Rob Kapilow: The Golden Gate Project 1 Of February 2010 9 The Cantilever of Chords 12 LISA SCOLA PROSEK i Victor Ullman - The Emperor of Atlantis iv Rob Kapilow 2 Golden Gate Bridge ...


March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2011 Volume 18, Number 3 MARK ALBURGER Positively Mona Lyn Reese 1 CHRONICLE Of January 2010 9 COMMENT By the Numbers 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i Renee Fleming 8 Mona Lyn Reese 12 Anthony Tommasini 12 The Knights ...


February

21ST CENTURY MUSIC February 2011 Volume 18, Number 2 PHILIP GEORGE Mikel Rouse 1 CHRONICLE Of December 2010 4 RECORDINGS 11 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 3 Mikel Rouse 10 Rufus Wainwright 12 Rys Chatham ...


January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2011 Volume 18, Number 1 TOM MOORE An Interview with Ivan Elezovic 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Not the Solution He Expected 5 MARK ALBURGER Art and Popularity 6 PHILLIP GEORGE CHRONICLE Of November 2010 8 RECORDING Music of Tribute 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Stephen Hartke iv. Ivan Elezovic 5. Avner Dorman 7. Carlos Santana 11. Brentano String Quartet 12. Music of Tribute, Volume 6: Berg ...

2010


October

21ST CENTURY MUSIC October 2010 Volume 17, Number 10 TOM MOORE An Interview with Alex Shapiro 1 MARK ALBURGER JooWan Kim's Integration 8 CHRONICLE Of August 2010 9 ILLUSTRATIONS i Mik Nawooj iv Alex Shapiro ...


September

21ST CENTURY MUSIC September 2010 Volume 17, Number 9 TOM MOORE An Interview with David Sanford 1 MARK ALBURGER A Tradition of Change 7 CHRONICLE Of July 2010 8 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 8 Garage a Trois 6 David Sanford 7 Kyle Bruckman, Karel Ernst 11 New York Sufi Music Festival ...


August

21ST CENTURY MUSIC August 2010 Volume 17, Number 8 TOM MOORE An Interview with Judah Adashi 1 ADAM BRONER Experimental Opera Alive and Well 7 CHRONICLE Of June 2010 8 RECORDING Laurie Anderson's Homeland 11 ILLUSTRATIONS i Miklos Rozsa - Ben Hur iv Judah Adashi 6 Fresh Voices X 11 Laurie Anderson - Homeland ...


March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2010 Volume 17, Number 3 TOM MOORE Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Interview 1 A.J. CHURCHILL Andrew Shapiro, Solo Piano 7 CHRONICLE Of February 2010 8 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv. Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez 7. Andrew Shapiro ...


February

21ST CENTURY MUSIC February 2010 Volume 17, Number 2 PHILLIP GEORGE Magnus Lindberg 1 MARK ALBURGER Her Royal Highness and Lowness 3 CHRONICLE Of December 2009 4 BOOK 11 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iii, 1 Magnus Lindberg 2 Magnus Lindberg - Patchworks Constraints Patch 3 Her Rebel Highness 10 Sting 11 Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe ...


January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2010 Volume 17, Number 1 PHILLIP GEORGE Glass Reflected Through Decades 1 MARK ALBURGER Bay-Area Wrap-Up and View 8 MICHAEL MCDONAGH In Glass's Orbit 5 CHRONICLE Of November 2009 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Chuck Close - Phil (1969) iv. Philip Glass 9. Marin Headlands 12 Philip Glass - Kepler (2009) ...

2009


December

21ST CENTURY MUSIC December 2009 Volume 16, Number 12 PHILLIP GEORGE Iannis Xenakis 1 CINDY WHITE Solidarity with Solidarity 3 CHRONICLE Of October 2009 5 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 3 Iannis Xenakis 4 Patrick Dailly - Solidarity 5 Vic Mizzy 6 Meredith Monk 11 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach in Santa Monica ...


August

21ST CENTURY MUSIC August 2009 Volume 16, Number 8 PHILLIP GEORGE Michael Jackson (1958-2009) 1 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Love and Rockets SFCCO 3 CHRONICLE Of June 2009 4 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 2 Michael Jackson 3 Alan Crossman - Plasticity for Sonoglyph and Chamber Orchestra (Tom Nunn [Instrument Inventor and Soloist] and San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra) 4 Loren Maazel, Stanley Drucker, New York Philharmonic 5 Henry Brant - Orbits (Guggenheim Museum) 7 Jim Ryan Birthday Bash (Flux Theatre) 12 Vibe ...


July

21ST CENTURY MUSIC July 2009 Volume 16, Number 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Rzewski Reviewski 1 ELLIOT HARMON Automatic Review 2 CHRONICLE Of May 2009 3 RECORDINGS 11 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Dennis Russell Davies 1. Frederic Rzewski 2. John Bischoff 10. Sara Kirkland Snider 11. Kronos Quartet - Floodplain 12. Mark Alburger - Sex and Delilah ...


March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2009 Volume 16, Number 3 PHILLIP GEORGE Quartet for the Beginning of Office 1 CHRONICLE Of January 2009 2 ITEMS RECORDINGS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Barack and Michelle Obama 1. John Williams's Air and Simple Gifts in "performance" 8. Georgy Ligeti 12. Phyllis Chen, Symphony Space, January 2009 ...

2008


October

21ST CENTURY MUSIC October 2008 Volume 15, Number 10 PHILLIP GEORGE Music of Emily Dickinson 1 CONCERT REVIEW The Dill of Montalvo 8 BRIAN HOLMES CHRONICLE Of August 2008 9 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv Emily Dickinson 9 Kaija Saariaho 10 The Police at Madison Square Garden, 2008 11 Steven Ebel and Rebecca Jo Loeb in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 12 Bohuslav Martinu ...


August

21ST CENTURY MUSIC August 2008 Volume 15, Number 8 MARK ALBURGER Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! 1 It's Miya Masaoka! CHRONICLE Of June 2008 2 COMMENT Item / Mark Swed 11 RECORDINGS Michael Gandolfi / Philip Glass 12 Violin and Cello Duets ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv Miya Masaoka 1 Palm Canyon, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 2 Bo Diddley / Esa-Pekka Salonen 3 Peter Westergaard - Alice in Wonderland 3 Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland 4 Gustav Mahler / Luciano Berio 5 Jan Jarvlepp - Garbage Concerto 5 San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra 6 Zeena Parkins - Quartet With Three Gay Men and Really Queer... 7 Paul Hindemith / Elliott Carter 8 Dante / 9 Olivier Messiaen 11 Disney Concert Hall / 12 Michael Gandolfi ...


July

21ST CENTURY MUSIC July 2008 Volume 15, Number 7 TAN DUN Words 1 CONCERT REVIEWS On Becoming Gandhi 2 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Rich Threepenny in Santa Cruz 3 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of May 2008 4 COMMENT Item 12 PUBLICATION 12 RECORDINGS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS: i Dolly Parton iv Tan Dun 2 Mohandas Gandhi 3 Santa Cruz Chamber Orchestra - Threepenny Opera ...


June

21ST CENTURY MUSIC June 2008 Volume 15, Number 6 After RICHARD TARUSKIN Stravinsky Songs 1 CONCERT REVIEW Past Tense, Future Perfect 2 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR Of June 2008 2 CHRONICLE Of April 2008 3 COMMENT By the Numbers 12 Item 12 RECORDINGS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS: ...


May

21ST CENTURY MUSIC May 2008 Volume 15, Number 5 INTERVIEW Philip Glass on Satyagraha 1 METROPOLITAN OPERA REVIEW Name That Memory 2 PHILLIP GEORGE CALENDAR Of May 2008 3 CHRONICLE Of March 2008 4 COMMENT Item 9 PUBLICATION 10 RECORDINGS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Leonard Rosenman ...


April

21ST CENTURY MUSIC April 2008 Volume 15, Number 4 INTERVIEW An Interview with Dimitri Cervo 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Wordless Music...Hitting on Something? 5 KATHERINE BUENO CALENDAR Of April 2008 6 CHRONICLE Of February 2008 7 PUBLICATIONS 11 RECORDINGS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i Jorge Liderman iv Dmitri Cervo 5 Gavin Bryars 6 Steven Clark - Amok Time 10 Pierre Boulez 11 Richard Wagner 12 Tom Moore, Ralph Shapey ...


March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2008 Volume 15, Number 3 INTERVIEW Performer's Perspective: Allen Otte on Frederick Rzewski and The Fall of Empire 1 JOHN LANE CONCERT REVIEWS To Thine Own Self Be Musical 7 PHILLIP GEORGE CALENDAR Of March 2008 8 CHRONICLE Of January 2008 8 COMMENT Items ILLUSTRATIONS: i Post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. iv, 7 Frederic Rzewski 1 Percussion Group Cincinnati (PGC) (Allen Otte, James Culley, Russell Burge) 8 Terry Riley ...


February

21ST CENTURY MUSIC February 2008 Volume 15, Number 2 INTERVIEW An Interview with Frederick Carrilho 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEW Honesty and Dishonesty in Opera 4 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR Of February 2008 5 CHRONICLE Of December 2007 5 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 5 Karlheinz Stockhausen iv Elliott Carter 1 Frederick Carrilho 3 Road to Sao Paulo, Brazil 4 Igor Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress (San Francisco Opera) 6 Andrew Imbrie 7 Lucas Foss - Griffelkin (Chandos) 8 H. Wiley Hitchcock 9 Philip Glass, Robert Wilson (Robert Mapplethorpe) 9 Paul Chihara 11 Led Zeppelin 12 Chuck Close - Self-Portrait ...


January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2008 Volume 15, Number 1 INTERVIEW An Interview with Marisa Rezende 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Scoring with Shostakovich 4 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR Of January 2008 5 CHRONICLE Of November 2007 6 COMMENT Modern Music to Go 8 PHILLIP GEORGE By the Numbers 9 Item 9 PUBLICATIONS 11 RECORDINGS 12 ...

2007


December

21ST CENTURY MUSIC December 2007 Volume 14, Number 12 AUTHOR An Interview with Rodney Waschka II 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Appreciating Music at Marin Symphony 9 PHILLIP GEORGE The Sincerest Form 9 MARK ALBURGER Tenting Today 10 BRIAN HOLMES Bringing in the Sheaves of Song 11 CHRONICLE Of October 2007 12 ILLUSTRATIONS: i Philip Glass - Appomattox 2 Guitar 3 Nelson Mandela 8 Frederic Rzewski 12 Allen Ginsberg 12 Harrison Birtwistle ...


November

21ST CENTURY MUSIC November 2007 Volume 14, Number 11 AUTHOR Luciano Pavarotti 1 PHILLIP GEORGE CONCERT REVIEWS Open San Francisco 3 MARK ALBURGER Big Screen at the Ballpark 4 PHILLIP GEORGE CALENDAR Of November 2007 5 CHRONICLE Of September 2007 6 COMMENT By the Numbers 8 Item 8 ILLUSTRATIONS: i, 2 Luciano Pavarotti; 3 John Adams; 4 Dimitrije Popovic - Samson and Delilah 5 Conlon Nancarrow; 5 Joe Zawinul, 7 Michael Tilson Thomas; 8 David Tudor; 9 Soldiers in Iraq ...


June

21ST CENTURY MUSIC June 2007 Volume 14, Number 6 TOM MOORE Second Helpings from Sergio Roberto de Oliveira 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Hits and Misses from Misters Stravinsky and Takemitsu 5 MARK ALBURGER Halfway All the Way 5 KEN BULLOCK Stone Reynolds 7 DAVID SHAMROCK Three Strauss Moods 7 PHILLIP GEORGE CHRONICLE Of April 2007 9 COMMENT Items 12 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i Mstislav Rostropovich at the Berlin Wall, 4 Sergio Roberto de Oliveira; 5 Halfway Mark 8 Fuzzy Strauss; 9 Picasso Stravinsky; 11 Rostroelongatopovich; 12 Joan of Horizontal ...


May

21ST CENTURY MUSIC May 2007 Volume 14, Number 5 ARTICLE 1 CONCERT REVIEWS 2 CALENDAR Of May 2007 3 CHRONICLE Of March 2007 4 COMMENT By the Numbers 6 Items 6 WRITERS 7 ...


January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2007 Volume 14, Number 1 TAN DUN On The First Emperor 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Cultural Learnings of 2 San Francisco Symphony for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan BORAT GEORGESTAN Scots Guard at Marin Symphony 2 PHILLIP GEORGE From Absurdity to Zorn 3 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR Of January 2007 5 CHRONICLE Of November 2006 6 COMMENT By the Numbers 9 Items 9 OPPORTUNITIES 9 RECORDINGS 9 WRITERS 10 ...

2006


December

21ST CENTURY MUSIC December 2006 Volume 13, Number 12 INTERVIEW Tricks and Treats from Joan Jeanrenaud 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS The Fountains and Pines of San Rafael 5 PHILLIP GEORGE Santa Rosa / San Francisco: Compare and Contrast 6 MARK ALBURGER Misery Loves Artistry 7 PHILLIP GEORGE Guest Artists with Del Sol 8 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of October 2006 9 COMMENT By the Numbers 12 Items 12 WRITERS 12 ...


May

Volume 13, Number 5 WILLIAM ROWLAND Remembering Sarah Caldwell 1 CONCERT REVIEWS MS Weather Report 2 MARK ALBURGER Sturm und Drang und SFCCO 3 JEFF KALISS Shostakovich Soldiers On 4 Gospel Harmony 5 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR For May 2006 6 CHRONICLE Of March 2006 7 WRITERS 9 COVER ILLUSTRATION Dmitri Shostakovich ...


April

Volume 13, Number 4 INTERVIEW Mark Alburger's Cosmic Compositional Comedy 1 JEFF DUNN CONCERT REVIEWS Kingdom of Heaven in the New Musical World 4 PHILLIP GEORGE The Birth of the Modern 5 PHILLIP GEORGE CALENDAR For April 2006 6 CHRONICLE Of February 2006 7 COMMENT Items 10 With Apologies to C.F. Ramuz 10 PHILLIP GEORGE WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Mark Alburger - Street Songs ...


March

21ST CENTURY MUSIC March 2006 Volume 13, Number 3 PHILLIP GEORGE Tod Machover 1 CONCERT REVIEW The Birth of the Modern 6 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of January 2006 8 BOOKS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i Bongani Ndodana-Breen iv Tod Machover 3 Igor Stravinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky (1911) 11 Marcel Duchamp - Fountain 11 San Francisco Symphony (1911) 12 Dorkbot ...


February

21ST CENTURY MUSIC February 2006 Volume 13, Number 2 PHILLIP GEORGE Towards a David Rakowski Biography 1 CONCERT REVIEW A Nightingale Sang on Van Ness Avenue 6 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of December 2005 8 BOOKS Michael Segell / Studs Terkel 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i, 5 David Rakowski 6 Albert Gleizes - Igor Stravinsky 7 Tobias Picker 11 Charles Wuorinen 12 Michael Segell / Studs Terkel ...


January

21ST CENTURY MUSIC January 2006 Volume 13, Number 1 PHILLIP GEORGE Peter and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 1 CONCERT REVIEWS San Francisco Gala Rehearsal 3 Life Is Rough 4 MARK ALBURGER Pieces of Perturbation 5 ELIZABETH AGNEW Selling Out by Selling Out 6 MARK ALBURGER Chickens and Eggs 7 CAROLYN JEAN CHRONICLE Of November 2005 8 RECORDING Harrison Birtwistle 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i, iv Peter and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 5 Ralph Vaughan Williams, 6 Carl Orff 7 Edward Elgar, 11 Denis Russell Davies / Philip Glass, 12 Frederic Rzewski: Fred ...

2005

December
21ST CENTURY MUSIC December 2005 Volume 12, Number 12 TOM MOORE An Interview with Edino Krieger 1 CONCERT REVIEW Delayed Atomic Reaction 5 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of October 2005 7 RECORDING Roger Waters 10 WRITERS 11 ILLUSTRATIONS i Nuclear explosion iv Edino Krieger 6 John Adams - Dr. Atomic 10 Roger Waters 11 Lynne Rutter - Erling Wold ...

November
21ST CENTURY MUSIC November 2005 Volume 12, Number 11 PHILLIP GEORGE Wynton Marsalis 1 CHRONICLE Of September 2005 3 RECORDINGS Richard Rodney Bennett / David Chesky 8 ILLUSTRATIONS i Hurricane Katrina iv, 2 Wynton Marsalis 7 Mari Kimura 8 Richard Rodney Bennett / David Chesky ...

October
21ST CENTURY MUSIC October 2005 Volume 12, Number 10 PHILIP GEORGE Robert Moog, 1935-2005 1 CHRONICLE Of August 2005 3 RECORDINGS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Moog Synthesizer 2. Robert Moog 3. Luigi Dallapiccola 10. Elliott Carter 11. Leonard Bernstein - Peter Pan 12. Bryn Terfel - Silent Noon ...

September
21ST CENTURY MUSIC September 2005 Volume 12, Number 9 TOM MOORE An Interview with Marlos Nobre 1 CHRONICLE Of July 2005 9 ILLUSTRATIONS i. Alberto Ginastera iv. Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 8. American premiere of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ("Of a Thousand") , conducted by Leopold Stokowski 9. Max Reger 10. Wassily Kandinsky 10. Frederic Rzewski 11. Brian Ferneyhough 12. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ...

August
21ST CENTURY MUSIC August 2005 Volume 12, Number 8 PHILLIP GEORGE W.H. Auden as Muse 1 CHRONICLE Of June 2005 6 RECORDINGS 11 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i W.H. Auden iv W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten 5 Samuel Barber 6 Philip Glass - Powaqqatsi 7 Pablo Picasso - Gertrude Stein 8 Benjamin Britten - Gloriana 9 Evelyn Glennie 10 Philip Glass - Orion 11 Thomas Ades - Piano Quintet 12 Erling Wold ...

July
21ST CENTURY MUSIC July 2005 Volume 12, Number 7 MARK ALBURGER The Compleat Crumb: To 1970 and Beyond 1 CHRONICLE Of May 2005 7 RECORDING 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i George Crumb - Makrokosmos, Volume II : Twin Suns iv George Crumb 1-4 George Crumb, Anne Crumb, Crumb Works 5 Federico Garcia Lorca 6 Dog 11 Richard Strauss 12 John Williams ...

June
21ST CENTURY MUSIC June 2005 Volume 14, Number 5 MARK ALBURGER The Compleat Crumb: Early Edition to 1970 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Martino Twist 2 Credo in US Composers 2 Last Picture Show 3 Contemporary Contrabass 4 The Circumference of Radius 4 Portland Short 5 Lumen Illuminates 5 Longitude on the Map 6 Straight Outta Package 6 Next! 7 Taking Stock in Brockton 7 Leroy Memorial 8 Collage Gems 8 Happy Birthday, Bernard Rands 9 Multiverses 10 DAVID CLEARY CHRONICLE Of April 2005 11 PUBLICATIONS 12 WRITERS 12 ILLUSTRATIONS i George and Ann Crumb; 10 David Starobin and George Crumb 11 Erling Wold; 12 Mark Alburger ...

May
Volume 12, Number 5 INTERVIEW Phill Niblock 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS Extension Chords 4 Brave Heart 4 Opera Unlimited 6 Piano Institute 7 Dancing with Dinosaurs 8 DAVID CLEARY East Meets West Meets East 9 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of March 2005 10 WRITERS 12 COVER ILLUSTRATION ...

April
Volume 12, Number 4 INTERVIEW Fox Redux 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Just Intonations 6 NEC Percussion 6 Dinosaur Metaphysics and Magic 7 Longitude in the Tooth 7 DAVID CLEARY The Next Big Thing at Other Minds 8 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of February 2005 9 WRITERS 12 ...

March
Volume 12, Number 3 KEN BULLOCK Alexander Tsygankov, Virtuoso of the Domra 1 CONCERT REVIEWS All Pro Musica 3 Divine, Alive, and Kicking 3 The New England Connection 4 Alea III 4 Cohen Memorial 5 The Composers Voice 5 Tsai! Tsai! 6 Boston Fleet Viva Chitra 6 Verdant Equinox 7 DAVID CLEARY Ringing in the New Year 8 Singing for One's Celebration 8 MARK ALBURGER AUTHORS 9 CHRONICLE Of January 2005 10 ...

February
Volume 12, Number 2 MARTIN ANDERSON Frederick Fennell 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Firebird Suite 3 Rorem Good Time 3 Short New England Strings 4 Public Display 4 Collage Graduates 5 The Fiery Concert 5 Vox Populi 6 DAVID CLEARY CHRONICLE Of December 2004 7 COMMENT By the Numbers 10 Items 10 PUBLICATIONS 10 RECORDINGS 11 WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Moritz von Schwind - The Hunter's Funeral Procession ...

January
Volume 12, Number 1 INTERVIEW Foxy Composer-Producer 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS Top Heavy Twentieth 7 DAVID CLEARY In the Pink 7 DAVID CLEARY CHRONICLE Of November 2004 9 COMMENT 11 WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Jim Fox - The City the Wind Swept Away (inside front cover / Center for Land Use Interpretation) ...

2004

December
Volume 11, Number 12 INTERVIEW Cold Blue Fink 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS Death, Destruction, and San Francisco 4 MICHAEL MCDONAGH The Explosive Performance of the Marin Symphony 4 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of October 2004 6 COMMUNICATION DAVID CLEARY 8 PUBLICATIONS 9 WRITERS 10 ...

November
Volume 11, Number 11 MARK ALBURGER Varoom!: An Interview with Kenji Bunch 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Making Lud Lnoises 3 About Not Wanting to Be Serious KEN BULLOCK Words and Music 4 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Frebird Firedrill Finale 5 Composition and Performance 6 Mahler 9 Lives 6 Death and Sex 7 MARK ALBURGER 2 Redheads and 88 Solenoids 8 WILLIAM SUSMAN Composer Comparisons at 9 Sacramento Music Fest MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of September 2004 11 WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Roy Lichtenstein - Blam! ...

October
Volume 11, Number 10 PAUL HURLEY The Stravinsky/Tchaikovsky Connection 1 MARK ALBURGER The Solfege Project / 5 Comparative Melody Classification: Sol Through Ti CHRONICLE Of August 2004 11 COMMENT Items 12 ...

September
Volume 11, Number 9 MARK ALBURGER The Chord Project / 1 Comparative Harmony Classification CHRONICLE Of July 2004 8 COMMENT By the Numbers 11 Items 11 PUBLICATIONS 12 ...

August
Volume 11, Number 8 ELENA DUBINETS American Music from 1 the Second Half of the 20th Century: Notation and Compositional Techniques IN MEMORIAM 4 CHRONICLE Of June 2004 5 COMMENT Items 7 PUBLICATIONS 11 ...

July
Volume 11, Number 7 JAMES FREEMAN Orchestra 2001's 1997 Trip to Russia and Denmark: 1 Poverty and Plenty -- Triumph and Tragedy ELLEN PFEIFER New England Conservatory 5 Mourns Death of Jazz Great Steve Lacy CONCERT REVIEWS Mountain Play "Fair" Excellent 7 MARK ALBURGER From me flows what you call a Review 7 MARK ALBURGER Dr. Faust, I Presume 8 MICHAEL MCDONAGH CHRONICLE Of May 2004 9 WRITERS 9 COVER ILLUSTRATION Great Gate of Kiev ...

June
Volume 11, Number 6 JAMES FREEMAN Thirty-Seven Years of Music at Swarthmore College 1 Orchestra 2001's Autumn 1998 Adventures 4 CONCERT REVIEWS Enduring 6 A Guided Tour of Akhnaten 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH CHRONICLE Of April 2004 8 CONTRIBUTORS 8 RECORDINGS 9 COVER ILLUSTRATION Clothier Memorial Tower, Swarthmore College ...

May
Volume 11, Number 5 MARK ALBURGER John Adams's Activity and Zeal through "Zeal and Activity" 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Z'Gaijin 4 MARK ALBURGER Home Grown 4 FLANNERY STERNS Rite of Spring Break 4 LAUREL JOSEPHINE Mahler Meaning 5 MARK ALBURGER Friendly Composers Make Mostly Nice 5 PHILLIP GEORGE April Ghouls at Davies 6 Text and Recording 6 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR For May 2004 8 CHRONICLE Of March 2004 9 COMMENT By the Numbers 10 WRITERS 10 COVER ILLUSTRATION John Adams ...

April
Volume 11, Number 4 ARTICLE Steve Reich: Early Phase 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Standing Ovation Room 8 Other Minds Other Contexts 8 MARK ALBURGER CALENDAR For April 2004 10 CHRONICLE Of February 2004 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Steve Reich ...

March
Volume 11, Number 3 MARK GRESHAM Howard Shore 1 MARK ALBURGER Alasdair Neale's America 2 Terry Riley in the 70's 4 CONCERT REVIEW Requiem for a Weighty Chorus 8 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of January 2004 9 COMMENT What Is Art Music? 10 ORLANDO GACINTO GARCIA WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Gollum (from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) ...

February
Volume 11, Number 2 BRENDA SCHUMAN-POST Steinmetz Non-Interview 1 MARK ALBURGER Terry Riley after "In C" to "A Rainbow in Curved Air" 3 AUTHORS 10 CONCERT REVIEW Steal This Review 11 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of December 2003 11 ...

January
Volume 11, Number 1 INTERVIEW Doubletalk: Ten Years of 20th- and 21st-Century Music 1 PHILLIP GEORGE CONCERT REVIEWS Afternoon Delights 3 Shedding Light on "Night" 3 Hit Woman at San Francisco Opera 4 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS Daniel Boom 5 Cold Compressed 5 Suspended Sanctuary, Indeed! 6 Another Dellaira Delight 7 Sex, Sounds, and Rocco(co?) 7 Dresher for Success 8 Deep Stringy 8 Umzwangedwa 8 Intrusions and the Fury 9 Songs from Invisible Days 9 Somehow He Can 9 MARK ALBURGER MUSIC REVIEW Dmitri Dmitry: A Little Waltz Music MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of November 2003 10 COVER ILLUSTRATION Mark Alburger, in his "Delusions of Beethoven" period ...

2003

December
Volume 10, Number 12 TOM MOORE Two Brazilian Interviews 1 Caio Senna 1 Antonio Guerreiro de Faria 5 CONCERT REVIEW Roots, Jazz, Romania 9 MICHAEL MCDONAGH AUTHORS 9 CHRONICLE Of October 2003 10 ITEM CLINT BAJAKIAN 10 ...

November
Volume 10, Number 11 NANCIA D'ALIMONTE Philip Interview No. 3 ("Sinfonia Glassica") 1 CONCERT REVIEWS 9th Other 5 KEN BULLOCK Well-Dressed, Descending a Staircase 8 MARK ALBURGER Dessert and Dinner 8 MARK ALBURGER A Mother of All Operas 9 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of September 2003 10 ITEM NED ROREM with CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN 10 WRITERS 10 ...

October
Volume 10, Number 10 INTERVIEW Arch Vision from Richard Einhorn 1 ANDREW SHAPIRO CONCERT REVIEWS Three (or Four) Great Orchestrators 6 Symphonies from Symphony 6 MARK ALBURGER Glass Glass Glass 7 Holding Its Own 8 MICHAEL MCDONAGH RECORD REVIEWS The Gorgeous White North 9 New Hat 9 ReMix ReMix 10 MARK ALBURGER Bentley to the Bow 10 PH...

September
Volume 10, Number 9 MARK ALBURGER The Solfege Project / 1 Comparative Melody Classification: Do through Fi CONCERT REVIEW Believing in Riley and Campion 12 JON LEIDECKER CHRONICLE Of July 2003 12 WRITERS 12 COVER ...

August
Volume 10, Number 8 SERGEI ZAGNY Imitation: Traditional and Non-Traditional 1 Translated by Transformations of Melodies ANTON ROVNER CONCERT REVIEW Terry Riley: In Maqaam? 12 KC CHRONICLE Of June 2003 12 WRITERS 12 ...

July
Volume 10, Number 7 PAUL GRIFFITHS Luciano Berio, Composer of Mind and Heart 1 MARK ALBURGER Philip Glass: String Quartet to Strung Out 3 CONCERT REVIEWS On Tour with Orchestra 2001 8 ARNOLD GESSEL CHRONICLE Of May 2003 9 WRITERS 10 ...

June
Volume 10, Number 6 MARK ALBURGER Frederic Rzewski's Addictions 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Making the Most of Not Making the Most 3 PHILLIP GEORGE Three (or Four) Great Orchestrators 3 at San Francisco Symphony MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of April 2003 4 PUBLICATIONS 7 RECORDINGS 8 ...

May
Volume 10, Number 5 MARK ALBURGER Glass on the Brink 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Kronos Quartet Riley Reich 7 Society Notes 7 MARK ALBURGER Kronos Dracula 7 BRIANA TAYLOR A Year with NACUSA 8 Two ACF Salons 8 PHILIP GEORGE All in the Same Boat 9 BRIANA TAYLOR Stanford Symphony Glass 9 Davis, Dresher, Jeanrenaud, Riley 9 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of March 2003 10 WRITERS 11 ...

April
Volume 10, Number 4 DONALD HARRIS Lou Harrison (1917-2003): 1 An Important Message JOANNE D. CAREY In Memory of Lou 1 MARK ALBURGER La Monte Young: Compositions 1961- 2 CONCERT REVIEWS Symphonies from Symphony 8 MARK ALBURGER Pleasant/Unpleasant NOW 8 SALLY JOHNSON CHRONICLE Of February 2003 9 WRITERS 11 ...

March
Volume 10, Number 3 ARSENY AVRAAMOV The Open Strings of the Quintet 1 trans by ANTON ROVNER as a Basis for Detuned Orchestral Sound MARK ALBURGER La Monte Young to 1960 3 CONCERT REVIEW Thomas Sets Reverse French Course 10 MARK ALBURGER CHRONICLE Of January 2003 11 ...

February
Volume 10, Number 2 RALPH LORENZ Changing Approach to Analysis of 12-Tone Music 1 CONCERT REVIEW Three Derriere Guard Festivals 4 STEFANIA DE KENESSEY RECORD REVIEWS Dream On 5 Sellars Is a Chooser 5 Smaldone Scenes 6 Starer Strings 6 Bow to the Metal 7 DAVID CLEARY CHRONICLE Of December 2002 8 COMMENT The Derriere Guard 9 The Music of the Derriere Guard 11 STEFANIA DE KENESSEY WRITERS 11 ...

January
Volume 10, Number 1 INTERVIEW The David Cleary Issue 1 JANICE TUCKER RHODA CONCERT REVIEWS Sick Puppy 3 Weekend Warebrooker 4 DAVID CLEARY RECORD REVIEWS All-CD Flight 6 Exchange Bureau 6 Feld(der)(man) 7 May the Flute Be With You 7 Foxy Last Things 8 Angels and Maurer's 8 McColloughmerican 9 Maximalist Miniatures 9 Where No Music Box Has Gone Before 10 Moyse Divine 10 Dream Journal 11 Eclipse Rands 11 DAVID CLEARY CHRONICLE Of November 2002 12 COMMUNICATION Re David Cleary 12 COVER ILLUSTRATION David Cleary ...

2002

December
Volume 9, Number 12 INTERVIEW Tagging Along with Hagerty 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Exquisite and Unsatisfying 4 EDMUND KIMBELL Berio Takes his Turn at Turandot 4 Topsy Turvy Jenufa 5 DAVID BUNDLER Music for Strings, Percussion, and Contrabassoon 5 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS Give Us Barab? 6 Bell Tones 6 Birtwistle Is Some Work 6 20th-Century Piano Dance Woman 7 Violaotearoa 7 DAVID CLEARY O Sound, Ever Different 8 EDMUND KIMBELL CHRONICLE Of October 2002 10 WRITERS 12 COVER ILLUSTRATION Luciano Berio ...

November
Volume 9, Number 11 INTERVIEW Gifts from Maggio 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Amateur Cliburn Festival 6 DAVID BUNDLER The Eyes Have It in "Water Passion" Spectacle at Bach Festival 6 JANOS GEREBEN The Return of the BBC Proms 7 JOHN RODNEY LISTER Scenic and Sometimes Sonic Splendor 8 St. Olivier of the Opera House 9 MARK ALBURGER BOOK REVIEW Living Strayhorn 9 MICHAEL MCDONAGH CHRONICLE Of September 2002 10 WRITERS 11 COVER ILLUSTRATION Giovanni Bellini - St. Francis in Ecstacy ...

October
Volume 9, Number 10 INTERVIEW Primarily Primosch 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Eighth Other Minds Festival 6 KEN BULLOCK RECORD REVIEWS Neuvo Nocturno 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Philip on Film - II 8 MICHAEL MCDONAGH 360 Degrees 9 MARK FRANCIS CHRONICLE Of August 2002 10 COMMENT By the Numbers 11 Items 11 WRITERS 11 ...

September
Volume 9, Number 9 MARK ALBURGER Flying High with Nancy Bloomer Deussen 1 KEITH POTTER Earle Brown 6 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Remembering Earle Brown 7 CONCERT REVIEWS A Concerted Effort 7 THOMAS GOSS I Can't Sing On, I'll Sing On 8 DAVID CLEARY Pro Arte and Its Merryman 8 DAVID CLEARY Eighth June NOW 8 R. LEMKE Fresh Voices III 9 MICHAEL MCDONAGH RECORD REVIEW Xenakis: The Hits 10 CHRISTOPHER DE LAURENTIS CHRONICLE Of July 2002 11 COMMENT By the Numbers 12 ...

August
Volume 9, Number 8 INTERVIEW Overstepping Interview with Eve Beglarian 1 MICHAEL DELLAIRA AUTHORS CONCERT REVIEWS Kazan (or Thereabouts) IV 8 ANTON ROVNER The Span of American Classicism 8 DAVID CLEARY Foss at 80 9 DAVID CLEARY Vernal Equinox 9 GLENN GENTRY Rostropovich at 75 9 DAVID CLEARY Tick-Talk 10 THOMAS GOSS Dinosaur Voice and Vision 10 DAVID CLEARY ...

July
Volume 9, Number 7 INTERVIEW Forms that Blur Boundaries: 1 An Interview with Rocco Di Pietro J.D. HIXSON CONCERT REVIEWS Kazan III 4 ANTON ROVNER North/South New Year 4 MICHAEL DELLAIRA Diablo Detailed 5 JEFF DUNN Spiderwoman in San Francisco 6 MARK ALBURGER Sweet and Deadly 6 THOMAS GOSS Civilization and its Disconnections 7 MARK ALBURGER Don't Grieve, Work with Orchestra and Baritone 7 JANOS GEREBEN ...

June
Volume 9, Number 6 INTERVIEW Brazili(a)nterview with David Korenchendler 1 TOM MOORE CONCERT REVIEWS Other Minds Dishes It Out 2 Nuevo Kronos 3 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Balancing Act 3 MARK PETERSEN Statue of Love 4 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS Reading Minds 5 MARK FRANCIS African and American and European 5 Applebaum Day 5 Bowling's Voice for Music 6 Strange Neonatal Belgum 6 The Talented Mr. Cooper 6 MARK ALBURGER All Drums Great and Small 7 MARK FRANCIS ...

May
Volume 9, Number 5 INTERVIEW Catching Up with Meredith Monk 1 ANDREW SHAPIRO CONCERT REVIEWS Sho Pro Arte 4 Vital Organ 4 Monadnock Music Has a Bolle 4 O Fortunato 5 Making the Connection 5 Floor Wax! Dessert Topping! 6 DAVID CLEARY Harry Partch Centennial Fete 6 KEN BULLOCK Krash Kronos 8 Dinosaur in the Glass Shop 9 Listening in Longy 9 Shapey Tribute 10 Boston Construction 10 Blodgett Ying 10 Short Philharmonic 11 DAVID CLEARY Style and Idea 11 MARK ALBURGER ...

April
Volume 9, Number 4 INTERVIEW Francis Thorne Looks Back and Ahead (At the Same Time) 1 MICHAEL DELLAIRA CONCERT REVIEWS Que Sorelle Salon, and So Forth 5 GAVIN BORCHERT Two Visionaries in Two Centuries 6 MARK ALBURGER Lamentations with White Shoes 7 JANOS GEREBEN Icebreaker, Icebreaker 7 GAVIN BORCHERT RECORD REVIEWS Cold Comfort 9 MARK ALBURGER A Spoolful of Schoenbeck, Baker, and Cameron 10 MARK ALBURGER The Requiem Challenge 10 JEFF DUNN Flying Objects 11 MARK ALBURGER Philip on Film 12 MICHAEL MCDONAGH ...

March
Volume 9, Number 3 INTERVIEW Food for Thought with Steven Gerber 1 MICHAEL DELLAIRA CONCERT REVIEWS A La Kazan (II) 7 ANTON ROVNER Cogan and Escot Tie in Excellence 7 Alea IV 8 Lyric and Resurrection 9 Just Do It Again 9 Aethetics of Ursula 10 Conservatively Contemporary 11 Boykan Dinosaur Celebration 11 Merrill Schulte 12 Schwartz Tribute 10 DAVID CLEARY Maverick Awakenings 13 DAVID L. BARRY Pan-American Pleasures 14 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Ridin' the Range 15 DAVID MECKLER Old, New, Borrowed, Red 16 EDMUND KIMBELL ...

February
Volume 9, Number 2 INTERVIEW A Complex Interview with James Clarke 1 ANTON ROVNER CONCERT REVIEWS Arch Mehitabel 4 Malcolm Peyton's Place 4 Composer's Place 4 Boston Modern 5 New Gallery 6 DAVID CLEARY Jenufa II 6 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Mavericks, Italian-Style 7 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS Seeing Through the Music 8 German, War, AIDS, Yizkor 8 Bottje Rights 10 Bringing Basics 10 Broklyn Sax Maniacs 10 Electronic Alaskan Portals 11 California Pavilion of Dreaming 11 MARK ALBURGER ...

January
Volume 9, Number 1 INTERVIEW High Spirits with Jonty Harrison 1 JOHN PALMER CONCERT REVIEWS Looking Forward 5 Ought One 5 Babbitt and Fluxus 8 Extended Injustices 8 Composer's Best Friend 9 Phantastic 10 Time and the Seasons 10 Count On Esterhazy 11 DAVID CLEARY Of Mice and Washington 11 GARRISON HULL Next Wave Song 12 ANDREW SHAPIRO Freedom Fighters and Red Tape 13 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Quarter-Tone Russia 13 ANTON ROVNER Silver Shining Strands 14 SONDRA CLARK ...

2001

December
Volume 8, Number 12 PAYTON MACDONALD Perspectives of Robert Morris 1 CONCERT REVIEWS World Music Days 2000 4 ANTON ROVNER Working for Scale 5 D.C. MECKLER Made in Heaven 6 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Last Night at the Luggage Store 7 TILDY BAYAR Deja Vu and Difference 7 MARK ALBURGER The Final Frontier 7 ALLISON A. JOHNSON Tight Space 8 D.C. MECKLER Rewards of Discipline 9 JEFF DUNN ...

November
Volume 8, Number 11 BARRY DROGIN From September 11 1 JONATHAN ELLIOTT SORREL ALBURGER EVE BEGLARIAN ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET KATTT SAMMON CONCERT REVIEWS Fresh Choice 3 WILLIAM SUSMAN Rhythm, Rumination, and Rapture 4 JEFF DUNN Serious Fun 5 MARK ALBURGER Serious -- Un 6 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Arshak, Too Bad 6 THOMAS GOSS Boombox Vigil 7 EVE BEGLARIAN ...

October
Volume 8, Number 10 ANDREW SHAPIRO Chaos and Control: 1 An Interview with Michael Gordon BROOKE AIRD Remembering Donald Aird 6 ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ CONCERT REVIEWS Schuller Scheventieth 7 Songs and Rituals of New England 7 Conservatory Not Conservative 8 Latitude of Longitude 8 Short Civic Review 9 Shakespeare in Music 9 Fromm Here for Martino 9 Just Right 10 Australian Organ Music 10 Short Are Review 11 Imaginary Review 11 DAVID CLEARY About the Tunnel of Love 11 RYDER W. MILLER Dinosaur Pioneers 12 DAVID CLEARY Da Capo at the Top 13 JOHN DE CLEF PINERO ...

September
Volume 8, Number 9 INTERVIEW It's a Wold, Wold, Wold, Wold Mad 1 CONCERT REVIEWS BMOP Bop 11 DAVID CLEARY Z Space Gets an A 11 JEFF KALISS Auos for New Music 13 DAVID CLEARY Cambridge Madrigal 13 DAVID CLEARY Arden Right at Home 14 DAVID CLEARY Arcadian International 14 DAVID CLEARY Sodden Gomorra 15 MARK ALBURGER BOOK REVIEW What Ever Happened to Theremin? 16 ...

August
Volume 8, Number 8 KEN KEUFFEL Locking Wits in the Lair of Dan Locklair 1 DANIELLE WOERNER Robert Starer: A Remembrance 3 CONCERT REVIEWS Little Goes a Long Way 6 JEFFREY SMITH Two Reviews from the Tempo Festival 6 DAN PLONSEY Another View of Buckner 6 KATTT SAMMON A Thousand Thanks 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Half as Long Is Twice as Good 7 JEFF DUNN RECORD REVIEWS More Barry 9 Cleopatra by North 10 Rochberg Revisited 10 Pianistic Percolation 10 Walker on Water 11 Play that Reggae Music 11 Concertos from Wernick 11 Willey's Gifts for Strings 12 Vital Women 12 Antics from Mr. Wilson 13 ...

July
Volume 8, Number 7 INTERVIEW Stefania de Kenessey on the Derriere Guard, and the Past and Present 1 (With a Few Predictions Thrown in for Good Measure) MICHAEL DELLAIRA CONCERT REVIEWS Drang 9 MARGIE WU The Glitter of Gay 9 JANOS GEREBEN Rouse's Reinvention 10 JEFF DUNN RECORD REVIEWS Arthur Rimbaud 11 DAVID HICKS Tepper for Two and Three 13 ELIZABETH AGNEW Time Sings On 13 PHILLIP GEORGE Tonsured Toensing's Office Hours 14 MARK ALBURGER Consonant Women 14 MARK ALBURGER ...

June
Volume 8, Number 6 ANTON ROVNER An Interview with Marcel Wengler 1 CONCERT REVIEWS Home of the Brave 3 FELICIA SANDLER How Not to Do New Opera 4 JANOS GEREBEN Little to Hyde 4 MARK ALBURGER Rocking the Boat at Bedford 4 MARILYN HUDSON An American in Russia 5 JOSEPH PEHRSON Standing O(vation) for 30 Years of New Music 5 WILLIAM SUSMAN Good Things in Threes 6 JEFF DUNN Erling Wold's Queer 7 D.C. MECKLER Rooting for the Home Team 7 MARK ALBURGER ...

May
Volume 8, Number 5 INTERVIEW Gareth Farr's Out-There Interview 1 THOMAS GOSS CONCERT REVIEWS Papal Ploys 8 ALICE SHIELDS Fleet Suite 9 DAVID CLEARY Boston Celebration 9 DAVID CLEARY String Quartet la Mode 10 DAVID CLEARY New Directions Now 11 DAVID CLEARY The Passion According to Golijov 11 DAVID CLEARY Fromm Players at Harvard for Martino's 70th 12 DAVID CLEARY Yesaroun' Clocks In 13 DAVID CLEARY Bang on a Future 13 MARK ALBURGER ...

April
Volume 8, Number 4 MARK ALBURGER Bananas at Large 1 A Round Table Discussion with Anthony Davis, Paul Dresher, Paul Hanson, Joan Jeanrenaud, Terry Riley, and Tracy Silverman MICHAEL MCDONAGH Crossing Paths with a Colorful Earle Brown 3 CHRISTIAN HERZOG Remembering Iannis Xenakis 5 JANOS GEREBEN Kelly-Marie Murphy 6 CONCERT REVIEWS After the Storm 7 MARK FRANCIS Totally Tartuffe 7 JOHN BEEMAN Upbeat French Program 8 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEW Concerning Kohs 9 DAVID CLEARY Postcards from North/South 9 DAVID CLEARY Also Rands 10 DAVID CLEARY ...

March
Volume 8, Number 3 INTERVIEW An Interview with Jean-Luc Darbellay 1 ANTON ROVNER CONCERT REVIEWS The Long and the Short 3 DAVID CLEARY Duke's Place 3 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Guitar Peninsula 4 I'LANA COTTON Strings Plus 4 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Event and Logic at New Century 5 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEW Clarinet in the Balance 6 DAVID CLEARY Cinematic Copland 6 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Stopping for Dickinson 7 ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ Pices Gaubert pour Flte et Piano 8 DAVID CLEARY ...

February
Volume 8, Number 2 KYLE GANN Beth Anderson 1 THOMAS GOSS An Interview Down Under with Eve DeCastro-Robinson 3 CONCERT REVIEWS Oxford in a Pink Suit 10 JEFF DUNN Game for Gamelan 10 RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Consultation 10 GARRISON HULL RECORD REVIEW Roll Out the Future 12 MICHAEL MCDONAGH We Live as We Dream 12 MARK FRANCIS Yes 13 WALT ERICKSON Morning Has Broken 13 MARK FRANCIS CALENDAR For February 2001 14 CHRONICLE Of December 2000 16 ...

January
Volume 8, Number 1 INTERVIEW David Starobin: Child of the Guitar Future 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS Audible Image / Visible Sound 4 PAMELA Z Alea III 4 DAVID CLEARY Collage Music 5 DAVID CLEARY Lap Symphony 5 WALT ERICKSON Virtual Opera 6 DAVID CLEARY Longy Longitude 6 DAVID CLEARY Merrill Listens 7 DAVID CLEARY Gunning for Schuller 7 DAVID CLEARY Deja Copland 8 MARK ALBURGER ...

2000

December
Volume 7, Number 12 SCOTT MENHINICK Gunther Schuller at 75 1 DONALD M. WILSON A Dialogue with Terry Riley 2 CONCERT REVIEWS Four Massachusetts Miniatures 3 DAVID CLEARY Boston Music Alive 3 DAVID CLEARY Alea's Last Millennium 4 DAVID CLEARY Aurosdammerung 4 DAVID CLEARY Church of the Annexed Dinosaurs 5 DAVID CLEARY Water! Steam! Movement! Sound! 5 DAVID CLEARY Venus and Henze 6 DAVID CLEARY Double Double Your Pleasure 7 DAVID CLEARY ...

November
Volume 7, Number 11 INTERVIEW Micromanagement with Dean Drummond 1 MARK ALBURGER CONCERT REVIEWS Simply Gifted 4 LAURIE HUDICEK Proms of Promise 4 JOHN RODNEY LISTER Classy Glass 5 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Tricky Thomas at SF Symphony 6 MARK ALBURGER No Saint to Remember 7 MICHAEL MCDONAGH Same Old Same New 7 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS Diaz-Infante Double 8 DAVID CLEARY One from Opus One 8 DAVID CLEARY Many Hued Hyla 8 DAVID CLEARY ...

October
Volume 7, Number 10 MARK ALBURGER Sitting with Kyle Gann 1 ANTON ROVNER Alexander Nemtin: 8 The Fulfiller of Scriabin's Musical and Philosophical Legacy CONCERT REVIEWS Sounds of a New World 17 ELLIOTT KABACK From Feldman to Felder... and Beyond 17 HANS-THEO WOHLFAHRT More Mavericks 19 THOMAS GOSS Theatrical Music 22 MICHAEL MCDONAGH San Francisco Swoosh 22 MARK ALBURGER Oedipus Tex in Wild West Marin 23 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEW Abstract Expressions 24 MICHAEL MCDONAGH BOOK REVIEWS British American Symphony 25 SABINE FEISST ...

September
Volume 7, Number 9 MARK ALBURGER Bang on an Ear: An Interview with David Lang 1 RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Remembering Alan Hovhaness: Making the Right Connections 15 CONCERT REVIEWS Russia Goes American 19 IRINA IVANOVA Microtonal Music on Prechistenka Street 20 VICTORIA ANDREYEVA Positivissimo 21 JEFF DUNN On the 12th Days of Krakw 22 MARIA ANNA HARLEY The Progressive Rake 23 ANDREW SHAPIRO Outsiders in the House 24 MICHAEL MCDONAUGH Goat's Voices 25 ROBERT WEISS Leading the Oregon Cheer for New Music 26 JANOS GEREBEN ...

August
Volume 7, Number 8 RICHARD KOSTELANETZ The Redeath of P.D.Q. Bach 1 PAYTON MACDONALD Yet Another Interview with Augusta Read Thomas 4 ANTON ROVNER An Interview with Mark Belodubrovsky 8 TOM MOORE An Interview with Serio Roberto de Oliveira 12 CONCERT REVIEWS Ojai 2000 18 TED BLAIR Simplicius Far From Simple 20 MARK ALBURGER Bravo Maestro Thomas! 20 BRUCE CHRISTIAN BENNETT The Fourth of Faith 21 JANOS GEREBEN Talking Music at Davies Hall 21 PAMELA Z Colorful Cartoon "Rake" 22 MARK ALBURGER The Old Becomes New At San Francisco Symphony 23 MARK ALBURGER ...

July
Volume 7, Number 7 MARK ALBURGER Onward Christian Wolff 1 DAVID BNDLER Max Exposure: 12 An Interview with Peter Maxwell Davies MIKE SILVERTON A Tribute to Lucia Dlugoszewski 17 CONCERT REVIEWS Collage of Artistry 18 DAVID CLEARY Merrill Recital Bullish on Rolf Schulte 19 DAVID CLEARY Death Comes to the Family 19 JAMES L. PAULK Songs with Words 20 MICHAEL MCDONAUGH Fifth Philadelphia NACUSA 21 DEBORAH KRAVETZ A Standard Is Born 21 MARK FRANCIS Time and Place with the Oakland East Bay Symphony 22 MARK ALBURGER ...

June
Volume 7, Number 6 ANTON ROVNER Sessions with Joel Feigin 1 DAVID BNDLER Some Questions for Augusta Read Thomas 4 RICHARD KOSTELANETZ Nicholas Slonimsky 9 ALFRED HELLER Reflections on Heitor Villa-Lobos 11 DAVID CLEARY The Boston New Music Scene: Present and Recent Past, 13 With Special Emphasis on Composers in Red Sneakers CONCERT REVIEWS Three Biblical Characters Find Operas 14 Connections Round the Bloch 15 Microtonal Boston 17 Sonatas and Fantasies 17 Just in Time 18 Rhymes of the African Mariner 19 The Law of Excellence with 19 Pinkham, Kirchner, Harbison, and Schuller C'Est Poulenc! 20 Original/American 20 Erling Wold's Dreams Take Flight 21 March Madness 21 Fine Time 22 Three from 415 22 A Streetcar in New Orleans 23 Glass Piece 24 A Polish Vesper 24 The Composer-Critic: A Critique 24 ...

May
Volume 7, Number 5 MARK ALBURGER The Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Interview 1 SABINE M. FEISST Serving Two Masters: 19 Leonard Rosenman's Music for Films and the Concert Hall CONCERT REVIEWS A Bolcom View from the Opera House 26 JAMES L. PAULK More Nemtin Concerts 27 ANTON ROVNER Contrasting Concerts of 28 Pleasure in Artaud and Justice MARK ALBURGER 415 Batting 1000 30 MARK ALBURGER RECORD REVIEWS New Voyages from New Albion 32 CRYSTAL ELIZABETH The Late, Great Shostakovich 32 PHILLIP GEORGE Society of Composers, Capstone 33 BRYCE RANKIN ...

April
Volume 7, Number 4 MICHAEL MCDONAGH North by North's Wife 1 IRINA IVANOVA Transformations and Invariant 6 Structures in Structures 1B CONCERT REVIEWS Eruption from the Cage 11 DAVID CLEARY Harpsichord 2000 12 DAVID CLEARY Wares by the Brook 12 DAVID CLEARY George Crumb's 70th 13 BETTE AGNEW Nemtin Concerts 14 ANTON ROVNER Farewell to the 20th Century 16 CHESSY WILLIAMS First National Symphony 16 GARRISON HULL Music from the Berkeley 17 AREL LUCAS ...

March
Volume 7, Number 3 ANDREW SHAPIRO An Interview with Michael Riesman 1 ROCCO DI PIETRO Pierre Boulez: Recent Works with Computers 7 JIM FOX Barney Childs in Memoriam 9 AREL LUCAS Remembering Barney Childs 9 CONCERT REVIEWS Frances-Marie Uitti: Cellist of Champions 12 ANTON ROVNER Carbon Copy Opera 13 JAMES L. PAULK On Waves of Sound 13 ANDREW SHAPIRO World Choral Organization 14 MARK PETERSEN Ban the Ninth! 15 JANOS GEREBEN Earth, Wind, and Fire 15 MARK ALBURGER Three Strikes and Foland is IN; 16 Hampson Glows in the Dark JANOS GEREBEN ...

February
Volume 7, Number 2 DAVID BNDLER The Mikel Rouse Talk Show 1 The Pageant of Richard Henn 6 Recent Works by John Luther Adams 14 CONCERT REVIEWS Dj Wozzeck 15 MARK ALBURGER Oh Floyd! 16 GARRISON HULL Americans in Moscow 16 IRINA IVANOVA Old Stalwarts Usher in the New Millennium 17 WILLIAM OSBORNE New Century in Retrospective of Old 19 MARK ALBURGER Riegger Leads the Way 20 JANOS GEREBEN RECORD REVIEWS Dances with Panzer 21 MARK ALBURGER Mind Games 21 ELIZABETH AGNEW ...

January
Volume 7, Number 1 MARK ALBURGER A to Z: Interviews with John Luther Adams 1 ...and JEFF DUNN ...and Judith Lang Zaimont 13 RICHARD KOSTELANETZ John Cage: The Text Pieces I 23 CONCERT REVIEWS Central Park on a Lark 24 JAMES L. PAULK Fear and Trembling in Aspen 25 JAMES L. PAULK Dialogues of the Santa Feans 26 JAMES L. PAULK Summertime 26 JAMES L. PAULK Davison Memorial 27 LOU CAMP Mission Accomplished 27 MARK PETERSEN Crumb Tan Potion 28 LAURIE HUDICEK Wascally Wadicals 29 LAURIE HUDICEK ...