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NEW MUSIC CONNOISSEUR IS DEVOTED TO THE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SCENE ORCHESTRAL UNDERGROUND: CONVERSATIONS XX + REVIEWS NOTATIONS 21 XX MUSIC p.6 | BOOK p.12 | PERFORMANCE p.16 AMERICANS IN ROME XX In Association with Composers Concordance, Inc. Volume 18 More at www.newmusicon.org Issue 1 March 2010 $4.95 U.S. + contributors Vol 18, No. 1 – March 20, 2010 BARRY L. COHEN is, as any reader familiar with these pages knows, a devotee of contemporary New Music Connoisseur is a semi-annual periodical focusing on music in all its many guises. With a distinguished the work of the composers of our time. career in many facets of publishing (Hearst Magazines, Curtis Publishing, Saturday Evening Post, Forbes), Barry founded New Music +++ Connoisseur 17 years ago, and until last year served as its Publisher and Editor-in-chief. PUBLISHER ANNE EISENBERG writes a column on new Center for Contemporary Opera developments in technology for The New York Jim Schaeffer, General Director Times. The column appears bi-weekly in the Durwood E. Littlefield, President Sunday Business section. in conjunction with DANIEL FELSENFELD is a composer who lives in New York City. The American Composers Alliance Gina Genova, Executive Director NANCY GARNIEZ enjoys a musical life that Hubert Howe, President includes performing, teaching, writing, record- ing, coaching, sight-singing, and scholarship. In 1992 she created Tonal Refraction®, a technique +++ that uses color and space to integrate learned concepts with the full range of subjective EDITOR-IN-CHIEF response to tone. Michael Dellaira LEONARD LEHRMAN, is the author of Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography and co-author ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE of Elie Siegmeister, American Composer. A Jennifer Fair composer of over 196 works, he is the former Assistant Chorus Master at the Metropolitan WEBMASTER Opera and is the founder and director of the Mike Thurlow Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus. 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To see more of his recent work, visit www.prestontrombly.net 2 | New Music Connoisseur IN THIS ISSUE +++ Bravi To ................................................................ 4 Letters to the Editor ............................................ 4 A Note from the Editor ........................................ 5 +++ PERFORMANCE REVIEWS From the House of the Dead ................................... 6 A Dark and Thorny Night ........................................ 8 Orchestral Underground: Conversations.................. 10 The New York City Opera Returns Home ................ 11 Love Has A Bitter Core ......................................... 13 Flute 311 ............................................................. 14 Celebrating Ursula Mamlok.................................... 15 Soft Tones and Hard Hits ....................................... 16 A Passion for the 21st Century .............................. 18 +++ CD REVIEWS Monroe Golden: Alabama Places ............................ 20 Other Worldly Sax ................................................ 21 Virgil Moorefield: .................................................. 22 Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven Americans in Rome .............................................. 24 +++ on the cover: BOOK REVIEWS Notations 21 ........................................................ 26 Preston Trombly’s American Muse .................................................... 27 “Sonata #2”, The Life and Times of William Schuman mixed-media assemblage made from piano parts Dotted Notes ..................................................... 30 in combination with Advertiser Index ................................................ 30 other materials pigments.and artist Puzzle ................................................................ 31 spring 2010 | 3 Bridge Records, for receiving two Grammy PRISM, the classical saxophone quartet, for the + bravi to nominations: George Crumb’s “The Winds of feature article on the group written by Vivien Destiny,” with Soprano Barbara Ann Martin and Schweitzer in the NY Times, Jan. 31, 2010 in Orchestra 2001 led by James Freeman, and Yehudi anticipation of its appearance at Le Poisson Wyner’s Piano Concerto Chiavi In Mano, with Rouge that evening. The article quotes members pianist Robert Levin and the Boston Symphony discussing how the group has developed over Orchestra under Robert Spano. the past 25 years from a quartet with limited literature to a fully accepted musical force Yehudi Wyner, for his Grammy nomination of for which many new works are now being Chiavi In Mano, released by Bridge Records. (See written. Prism is currently made up of Timothy Bridge) McAllister, Zachary Shemon, Taimur Sullivan and Matt Levy. [You can read the article – if still Susan Narucki, for receiving the Samuel Sanders online – at www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/arts/ Collaborative Artist Award for “The Light that is music/31prism.html] Felt – Songs of Charles Ives,” a CD released by New World Records (80680). 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