lan^vvoDd 1971 Gfestival of (Contemporary ^^J^usic August 11 - August 17, 1971 sponsored by the BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER in cooperation with the FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION M**d**A*i , « PERSPECTIVES Perspectives of New Music is a OF semi-annual journal dedicated to serious consideration of impor- NEW MWSIC tant issues of contemporary music and problems of the composer. ". no other publication since the demise of Modern Music covers as broad a territory, probes important issues as deeply, approaches Benjamin Boretz/Editor as intelligently the critical problems Elaine Barkin / raised by certain strains of Associate Editors Hubert S. Howe, Jr. contemporary composition; and pri- marily for these reasons, anyone seriously interested in current music, particularly in America, should oblige himself to read it." —Richard Kostelanetz, Yale Review Recent articles include: $6.00 a year $10.50 two years On Relata I Milton Babbitt $5.00 an issue The Construction of Musical Syntax (I) Benjamin Boretz Composition with Arrays PUBLISHED BY Godfrey Winham PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 On the Proto-Theory of Musical FOR THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION Structure Richard M. Martin ^Bm maiam TANGLEWOOD SEIJI OZAWA, GUNTHER SCHULLER, Artistic Directors / LEONARD BERNS'I^EIN, Advisor The Berkshire Music Center Joseph Silverstein, Chairman of the Faculty Harry J. Kraut, Administrator Aaron Copland, Chairman of the Faculty Emeritus Daniel R. Gustin, Assistant Administrator James Whitaker, Chief Coordinator Festival of Contemporary Music presented in cooperation with The Fromm Music Foundation Paul Fromm, President Fellowship Program Contemporary Music Activities Gunther Schuller, Flead Lukas Foss, Bruno Maderna, and Charles Wuorinen, Guest Teachers TiBOR PuszTAi and Paul Zukofsky, Assistants The Berkshire Music Center is maintained for advanced study in music Sponsored by the Boston Symphony Orchestra William Steinberg, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, Associate Conductor Thomas D. Perry, Jr., Manager BALDWIN PIANO DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND RCA RECORDS 1 The Oldest and Largest Record Company devoted to CONTEMPORARY MUSIC RECENT RELEASES Paul Chihara: TREE MUSIC CRI SD 269 Roger Reynolds: BLIND MEN CRI SD 241 Peter Westergaard: MR. and MRS. DISCOBBOLOS CRI SD 271 FORTHCOMING RELEASES Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Tenth Anniversary Celebration Varese, Babbitt, Ussachevsky, Luening, Arel, Davidovsky, Shields, Smiley CRI SD 268 — 2 discs Ralph Shapey: RITUALS for Symphony Orchestra Seymour Shifrin: THREE PIECES FOR ORCHESTRA (Naumburg Award Winners) CRI SD 275 William Albright: ORGANBOOK; PNEUMA; JUBA CRI SD 277 180 albums available Send for free catalogue. Write Dept. J COMPOSERS RECORDINGS, INC. 170 West 74th Street, New York, N. Y. 10023 :!-.:^' :* /. ,^ ^Mk ^^ak. THE BERKSHIRE MUSIC CENTER In 1940, the Berkshire Music Center was established at Tanglewood by the Boston Symphony Or- chestra in fulfillment of the dream of Serge Koussevitzky, its Music Director, to provide an environment in which young musicians could continue their professional training and add to their artistic experience through the guidance of eminent musicians. The Center was developed under Koussevitzky's leadership until his death in 1951, when he was succeeded by Charles Munch. Erich Leinsdorf became the next IVIusic Director in 1963, to be succeeded in 1970 by a tripartite directorship comprising two Artistic Di- rectors, Seiji Ozawa and Gunther SchuUer, and Leonard Bernstein as Advisor. Since the founding of the Center, one of the principal sponsors of composers and contemporary music at Tanglewood has been the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, established in 1942 by Serge Koussevitzky, then Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in memory of his wife Natalie. THE FROMM MUSIC FOUNDATION 1 he Fromm Music Foundation is dedicated to the furtherance of contemporary music. The Founda- tion commissions new works, awards prizes for existing works, and sponsors the study, performance, pub- lication and recording of contemporary music. The Foundation supports the magazine, "Perspectives of New Music," published by the Princeton University Press, and sponsors the yearly Festival of Contempo- rary Music at Tanglewood. I he Fromm Music Foundation is headed by Paul Fromm of Chicago, its president and founder. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT TANGLEWOOD The Contemporary Music Program at the Berkshire Music Center comprises two kinds of activity: the study and performance of contemporary music, and instruction in composition for a limited number of composers whose previous studies and experiences have prepared them for work on an advanced level. The program is headed by Gunther Schuller, President of The New England Conservatory of Music. Student composers not only receive instruction from Mr. Schuller and this year's guest teacher, Bruno Maderna, but also participate in a series of seminars conducted by, in addition to Mr. Maderna, Charles Wuorinen and Lukas Foss. Compositions by the student composers are performed at various Berkshire Music Center concerts, and prepared, as are the concerts of the Festival of Contemporary Music, under the supervision of Mr. Schuller. 1 HE MUSIC THEATER PROJECT The Music I'heater l^roject was inaugurated this year, headed by Ian Strasfogel, to provide practical experience in the Music Theater repertory for both advanced students and professional singers of excep- tional ability. Music Theater has a venerable history from the early experiments of Monteverdi to the Brecht-Weill, Stravinsky, and Ligeti works of today. With limited forces of small casts and orchestras, and slight scenic demands, these pieces use the elements of opera in strikingly fresh, exciting ways which must influence the opera composer and performer of tomorrow. Ihe establishment of the Music 1 heater Project was made possible by grants from the National Opera Institute and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund. THE FESTIVAL "Ihe Festival of Contemporary Music was initiated in 1963. The generous support of the Fromm Music Foundation has made possible this week-long encounter with contemporary music — an institution at Tanglewood, a festival within a Festival. "Its purposes are manifold. It provides a forum for new ideas and directions in music, and as such has become one of the most important annual events in the vital task of keeping the lines of communication open between composer and public. It also reaffirms the position that music can only survive in our society through the careful nurturing of the creative mind. But creation (composition) and recreation (perform- ance) are inextricably linked; the one cannot survive without the other. The emphasis on museum policies possible in the other arts, particularly the visual arts, can only lead to attrition in music for the very simple reason that, unlike a painting which exists and can be viewed at leisure, a composition has to be performed in order to exist. It ceases to exist, except as a memory, the moment the performance has ended. It there- fore becomes the obligation of every performing musician to keep the life-stream of music — composition — going and moving forward. The young men and women who come to Tanglewood as Fellowship students, performing in addition to 19th century music a wide variety of contemporary music, are meeting this challenge as a part of their professional commitment to music in all its breadth and depth. "The Fromm Music Foundation and the Berkshire Music Center provide a stimulus to these activi- ties by annually commissioning a number of works by young composers about to establish themselves in the field of music. "The Festival does not claim to be comprehensive or all-permissive, but has presented over the years a wide sampling of contemporary music, ranging from young 'unknowns' to the well-established figures." GUNTHER SCHULLER ) T"-'"'- IIIIM li FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Wednesday, August ii, at 8:30 p.m. Monday, August 16, at 8:30 p.m. Theatre-Concert Hall, Tanglewood Program John Huggler Music in Two Parts, opus 63 ( 1964) Conductor — Paul Polivnick John Harbison Parody- Fantasia ( 1968) Piano — Robert Miller Donald Martino Cinque Frammenti ( 1962) Louis Weingarden Seven Poems of Constantine Cavafy ( 1971 Commissioned by the Berkshire Music Center and the Fromm Music Foundation First Performance Soprano — Poppy Holden Narrator — Stephen Kline Conductor — JOHN Mauceri intermission Vincent Luti Cantata : Desiderata ( 1968) First Performance Conductor — Gunther Schuller Rolv Yttrehus Music for Winds, Percussion, 'Cello, and Voices (1969) Conductor — TiBOR PUSZTAI BALDWIN PIANO Acoustic Research Contemporary Music Project Presenting a series of broadcasts and recordings of music by living American composers. Board of Advisors Program Committee Milton Babbitt David Epstein Elliott Carter Earl Kim Aaron Copland Donald Martino Gunther Schuller Seymour Shifrin Roger Sessions Production and annotation of the broadcasts are by Leo Treitler. Acoustic Research has provided a group of composers with the funds and technical support to enable them to make recordings and produce broadcasts of music composed by their colleagues and themselves. The first series, which is now complete, consists of fourteen broadcasts and six records. The records produced by the project are available only by mail from Acoustic Research, at a cost of $2 each. They are manufactured by Deutsche Grammophon GmbH and are packaged in exactly the same way as commercial releases. A complete description of the project,