OF
UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS @Lr-ii~~lfillfilUUw L~~~@ i.::: FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
APRIL 1, 2, 3, 1966
In cooperation with the
DEPARTMENTS OF Music
of
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
and
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
and with the assistance of
THE FROMM Musrc FOUNDATION SEMINARS
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966
Loeb Student Center, New York University 566 West Broadway (at Washington Square South) New York City
I. The University and the Composing Profession: Prospects and Problems 10:00 AM. Room 510 Chairman: Benjamin Boretz New York University Speakers: Grant Beglarian M ttsic Educators' National Confer.mce Andrew Imbrie University of California, Berkeley Iain Hamilton D11ke University Gharles Wuorinen Columbia University
II. Computer Performance of Music 2:30 P.M. Room 510 Chairman: J. K. Randall Princeton University Speakers: Herbert Briin University of Illinois Ercolino Ferretti Massachusetts Institflte of Technology James Tenney Yale University Godfrey Winham Princeton University
Panel: Lejaren A. Hiller University of Illinois David Lewin University of California, Berkeley Donald Martino Yale University Harold Shapero Brandeis Universi1y FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1966
CONCERT-DEMONSTRATIONS I By new-music performance groups resident in American universities 8:30 P.M. McMillin Academic Theatre, Columbia University Broadway at 116 Street New York City NOTE: These programs have been chosen by the participating groups them selves as characteristic representations of their work. The Society has exerted no control over the selections made.
I. Octandre (1924)-···-·· --···-·····- ·············-··-··-·· ·Edgard Varese (in memoriam) The Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University Sophie Sollberger, fl11te Josef Marx, oboe Jack Kreiselman, clarinet Alan Brown, bassoon Barry Benjamin, hom Ronald Anderson, trumpet Philip Jameson, trombone Kenneth Fricker, contrabass Charles Wuorinen, cond11ctor
II. Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Rutgers Arthur Weisberg, mmical director Beatrice Witkin, project coordinator 1. Prelude to Naples (1965) ...... Joel Chadabe Thomas Nyfenger, flll te Arthur Bloom, clarinet George Haas, oboe Robert Sylvester, cello 2. Tropi (1959) ...... , ...... Niccolo Castiglione Thomas Nyfenger, flute Arthur Bloom, clarinet Paul Zukofsky, violin Robert Sylvester, cello Gilbert Kalish, piano Raymond Des Roches, permssion Arthur Weisberg, cond11ctor - INTERMISSION - III. The Group for Contemporary Music at Columbia University Harvey Sollberger } . Charles Wuorinen co -directors
1. Emily Dickinson's Marriage (1965) ...... John Harbison Valarie Lamoree, soprano Sophie Sollberger, flute Jack Kreiselman, clarinet Jeanne Benjamin, violin Warren Lafredo, viola Harvey Sollberger, conductor 2. Ensembles for Synthesizer (1964) ...... Milton Babbitt with the technical assistance of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 3. Piece in two parts (1959-60) ...... Stefan W o!pe Harvey Sollberger, flute Charles Wuorinen, piano SEMINARS
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1966
Loeb Student Center, New York University 566 West Broadway (at Washington Square South) New York City
I. Lecture: Discove11ies and Problems in a Study of Berg's lJV ozzeck 10:00 A.M. ·Room 408 Speaker: George Perle Queens College Chairman: Henry Weinberg Queens College
II. Organizational Meeting and Professional Colloquim 2:30 P.M. Room 408 Chairman: Claudio Spies Swarthmore College SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1966
CONCERT-DEMONSTRATIONS II By new-music performance groups resident in American universities
8:30 P.M. McMillin Academic Theatre, Columbia University Broadway at 116 Street New York City
NOTE: These programs have been chosen by the participating groups them selves as characteristic representations of their work. The Society has exerted no control over the selections made.
I. Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Electronic Study No. 3 (1965) ...... Mario Davidovsky
II. Contemporary Music Ensemble, University of Pennsylvania Melvin Strauss, musical director Night Music I ( 1965) ...... George Cmmb Valarie Lamoree, sop1'ano Joel Thome, percussion Edwin Schneck, percnssion Carl Berky, piano Melvin Strauss, conductor
- INTERMISSION -
III. Creative Associates, State University of New York at Buffalo Lukas Foss } . Allen Sapp co-d11"ectors
1. Quartet, Op. 22 ...... Anton lf;7 ebem Andrew White, tenor saxophone Charles Joseph, violin Sherman Friedland, clarinet Fredric Myrow, piano 2. Duet for piano and stringed instrument ( 1961) ...... T oshi Ich yinagi David Tudor, piano Jean Dupouy, viola
3. Composition for two players ...... Fredric Rzewski Fredric Rzewski and David Tudor, players 4. Trois Chants Sacres (1961) ...... Henri Pomse11r Sylvia Brigham-Dimiziani, soprano Charles Joseph, violin Jean Dupouy, viola Jay Humeston, cello Henri Pousseur, co11d11ctor SEMINAR
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1966
Loeb Student Center, New York University 566 West Broadway (at Washington Square South) New York City
1:00 P.M. .Room 510
"What do you want a student to hear in a piece of music?"
Chairman: Peter Westergaard Colnmbia University
Panel: Milton Babbitt Princeton University Martin Boykan Brandeis University Robert Cogan New England Conservatory Ross Lee Finney University of Michigan Ben Johnston University of Illinois Earl Kim Princeton University Leo Kraft Queens College Billy Jim Layton Harvard University Robert Hall Lewis Go11cher College Salvatore Martirano University of Illinois Lawrence Moss Yale University Louise Talrna Hunter College Roy Travis University of California, Los Angeles