Lou Harrison: Suites for Tuned Guitars:
Serenade (1978)
Suite for National Steel Guitar (1952/92)
In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel (1991)
John Schneider, guitars Mode 195 (2008)

Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano
Sonatina
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While Music From Other Minds was on vacation, we rebroadcast some of our programs from last year.
Our next new program will be September 5 with number 151.
July 11 - #92 - Takemitsu/Messiaen
July 18 - #107 - Kagel/Holliger
July 25 - #131 - Adams/Scelsi/Feldman
August 1 - #111 - Corner/Wilson/Dahinden/Wilson/Satoh
August 8 - #123 - Kimura/León/Shapey
August 15 - […]

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This program features a choral work for July 4th, and two new recordings of exquisite music by two extraordinary women composers:
William Duckworth: War Department, from Southern Harmony (1981)
Boston Secession Choral Ensemble - Brave Records BRAV0720 (2007)
War Department
No more shall the sound of the war whoop be heard.
The ambush and slaughter no longer […]

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Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): Rotativa (1930) for two pianos and percussion. A very early work (Scelsi was 25) in the style of Antheil and Stravinsky, perhaps?
– Ars Ludi Ensemble - Stradivarius STR 33802 (2007)

Giacinto Scelsi: Chukrum (1963) for string orchestra
– Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio - Stradivarius STR 33802 (2007)
Wolfgang Rihm (1952-): […]

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A rebroadcast of a program from last year:
Re:MFOM 113 :: In 1952

John Cage: 16 dances for Soloist and Company of 3 (1951)
Ensemble Modern Ingo Metzmacher cond - BMG Music 09026-61574 (1994)
Earle Brown: December 1952 for solo piano
David Tudor recorded in 1972 rereleased on New World Records 80650 (2006)
If […]

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Carl Stone: Woo Lae Oak (1981) - Unseen Worlds UW 03 (2008)
Named after a chain of Korean restaurants, and one in particular in Los Angeles, Woo Lae Oak is a continuous electronic work crafted out of loops of the sound of a rubbed string and a bottle played by blowing air over […]

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Jorge Liderman: Barcelonazo (2003)
Eastman Musica Nova, Mark Scatterday, cond  -  Bridge 9241  (2008)
Cesar Camarero:
Finale (1992) - Alberto Rosado, piano
Chorro de luz hacia el corazon de una galaxia  (Stream of light into the heart of a galaxy)
Poema a la memoria de Exiquio Garcia Carbajo (Poem to the memory of Garcia Exiquio Carbajo)
members of the Plural Ensemble  […]

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Keeril Makan: Washed by Fire (2007) -
Kronos Quartet - Tzadik TZ8053 In Sound (2008)   (to be released 6/24)

Malcom Goldstein: Configurations of Darkness (1995) -
Malcom Goldstein, violin with Swiss Radio ensemble - New World 80676 a sounding of sources (2008)

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Morton Feldman: The Viola In My Life I-IV (1970-71)
Marek Konstantynowicz, viola; Cikada Ensemble (Oslo) (I-III);
Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Christian Eggen, cond. (IV)
ECM 1798 (2008) read the program notes
Morton Feldman: I Met Heine on Rue Fürstenberg (1971)
Ensemble Recherche; Disque Montaigne 782018 […]

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We’re still suffering a bit of Spring Fever, so here’s a really nice program from last year:
MFOM 121:

Lou Harrison: Here is Splendor (from Four Strict Songs)
UC Santa Cruz Chamber Singers and Chamber Orchestra
Nicole Paiement, cond New World 80666
Here is Splendor — of the airplant Spanish moss asway in […]

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Taking a little break, so here’s one of my favorite recent programs again:
Hans Otte

 
Excerpts from Hans Otte’s Das Buch der Klänge, The Book of Sounds.
Hans Otte, piano (1983) Celestial Harmonies (reissue) 12069 (2006)
Hans Otte passed away Christmas day, 2007, at age 81.

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The music of
Tania León:
Bailarin (1998) David Starobin, guitar
Axon (2002) Mari Kimura, violin and interactive computer
Arenas d’un Tiempo (1992) Speculum Musicae
Horizons (1999) NDR Sinfonie Orchester
Satiné (2000) Susan Grace, Alice Rybak, pianos
From the new release on Bridge 9231 […]

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Peter Adriaansz  is a young Dutch composer born in Seattle, Washington and now living in Den Haag, Netherlands. His chamber and solo pieces are widely performed in Europe and in the US
Triple Concerto (part 1) (2003) - Array Music
Serenades II-IV (2004) - Catch Electric Guitar Quartet
La Voce di Zarlino (part 1) (2006) - Compagnie Bisschof
9 […]

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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
Oresteïa (1966-87)
Radio-France production,
Strasbourg Music Festival October 1987
Salabert/Harmonia Mundi France SCD 8906 (1990)
Voile (1995) (Veil)
Ensemble Resonanz, Johannes Kalitzke, cond.
Mode 152 (2005)
In 1966, Greek composer Iannis Xenakis was asked to write music to accompany a condensed theatrical production of Aeschylus’s ORESTEIA: the trilogy Agamemnon, The Choëphori, and The Eumenides. In […]

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen’s birth, December 1908. So maybe it’s more like the anniversary of his conception as well.
Son of an English teacher father who translated Shakespeare, and a symbolist poet mother, Messiaen, who died in 1992, is still perhaps the most unique and exotic of 20th century composers.
There is […]

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