Afternoon New Music 2/26/07

The first hour and a half of the program were dedicated to the memory of the great violinist Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007)

1) Composer/Performer: Leroy Jenkins
Album: Solo
Label: Lovely Music
Tracks: Um Cha Chi Chum
Hipnosis
Folk Song
Off the Top of My Head
Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Keep on Trucking Brother
Wouldn't You (aka Woody'n You)

Two Early Anthony Braxton albums featuring Leroy Jenkins:

2) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: Three Compositions of the New Jazz
Label: Delmark
Tracks: Composition 6E
Composition 6D

3) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: B-Xo/ N-O-1-47A
Label: Actuel
Tracks: Simple Like

The rest of the show featured the music of electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick.

4) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: The Sidewinder
Label: Nonesuch

5) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Title: A Fluttering of Wings
performed by the Juliard String Quartet
Album: Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona; A Fluttering Of Wings
Label: Cambria Records

6) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: Silver Apples of the Moon
Label: Nonesuch

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/19/07

A set of Morton Feldman pieces, all from the very early 1960s

1) Performer: Ensemble Avantgarde
Album: Morton Feldman: Chamber Music
Label: Wergo
Tracks: For Franz Kline; O'Hara Song; De Kooning

2) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Durations I-IV
Album: Duration I-IV
Label: Time Records
Note: this comes from a rare LP in the WKCR collection performed by an ensemble that features David Tudor.

3) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Out of Last Pieces
Album: Music of Our Time
perfomed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Label: CBS

An amusing track off the same album:

4) Title: Four Improvisations
performed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Album: Music of Our Time
Label: CBS

A long set of improvised electronic pieces with electronics from the late 60s:

5) Artist: David Tudor
Title: Rainforest Version I (1968)
Album: Rainforest
Label: Mode

6) Artist: Musica Electronica Viva
Title: Spaceship
Album: MEV/AMM
Label: Time Records

7) Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Kommunion
Album: Kommunion and Intensität from aus den Sieben Tagen
Label: Deutsche Grammaphon

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/12/07

The first set featured a belated celebration of Alban Berg's Birthday (born Feb. 9th, 1885):

1)Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Album: Berg: 7 Early Songs, 3 Orchestral Pieces, etc
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Claudio Abbado
Label: Deutsche Grammophon



2) Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Lyric Suite
Album: Alban Berg
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Label: Disques Montaigne



The rest of the program focused on works composed for solo instrument with Luciano Berio's Sequenzas as the starting point. First, the trombone:

3) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza V for Trombone
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

4) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Presente
Album: Huber: La Force du Vertige; Eröffnung und Zertrümmerung
performed by Michael Svoboda, trombone
Label: Telos Records

5) Composer: Richard Barrett
Title: Basalt
Album: Transmission
Label: Nmc Records

6) Composer: Vinko Globokar
Title: Échanges
Album: Globokar by Globokar
Label: Harmonia Mundi

7) Composer: George Lewis
Title: Phenomenology
Album: The George Lewis Solo Trombone Album
Label: Sackville Records

Then, the accordion:

8) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XII for Accordion
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Teodoro Anzelloti
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

9) Composer: Cornelius Schwehr
Title: aus dem Kamalatdanischen Leiden
performed by Teodoro Anzelloti
Album and Label unknown (played from a private recording)

Finally, the guitar:

10) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XI for Guitar
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

11) Composer: Elliott Carter
Title: Shard
Album: The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 4
performed by David Starobin
Label: Bridge Records

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/05/07

Harry Partch -- Cloud-Chamber Music

Early and Microtonal Music of Ben Johnston

Three Chinese Lyrics (1955)
Gambit (1959)
Five Fragments (1960)
Sonata for Piano (1962)
Duo for Flute and Contrabass (1963)
String Quartet #2 (1964)
String Quartet #3 (1966)
Casta Bertram (1969)
String Quartet #4 (1973)
Suite for Microtonal Piano (1978)
String Quartet #6 (1980)
Trio (1981)

Host: Brian Kane