THE NOSE - 10 LOUIS AND THE YOUNG AMERICANS - 9 LIFE IN REVERSE - 14 + REVIEWS LIVE PERFORMANCE p.6 | CD p.20 | BOOK p.26 Volume 18 Issue 2 Fall 2010 $6.25 U.S. Vol 18, No. 2 – Fall 2010 New Music Connoisseur is a semi-annual periodical focusing on the work of the composers of our time. +++ PUBLISHED BY Center for Contemporary Opera Jim Schaeffer, General Director Durwood E. Littlefield, President in conjunction with The American Composers Alliance +++ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michael Dellaira ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENtativE Jennifer Fair WEBMASTEr Mike Thurlow ART DIRECTION & DESIGN Opus 1, Inc., Raleigh, NC ADVISORS Barry O’Neal Frank Oteri Kelley Rourke Eric Salzman Mark Zuckerman FOUNDING PUBLISHER & EDITOR, ASSOciatE EDITOR Barry Cohen +++ ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: New Music Connoisseur c/o Center for Contemporary Opera 338 W. 23 St. New York, NY 10011 Email:
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[email protected] or phone 937.478.9824. All material © New Music Connoisseur, 2010 IN THIS ISSUE +++ Contributors ......................................................... 2 Obituaries ............................................................ 3 +++ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS Fighting the Power and Sounding Good Doing It ........ 4 High Modernism on the Great Stages of New York .... 6 Cutting Edge Concerts ............................................ 8 Louis and the Young Americans ............................... 9 The Nose ............................................................. 10 Contact with New Music ....................................... 12 Currier’s Bodymusic .............................................. 13 Life in Reverse ..................................................... 14 Sudden Music ...................................................... 15 Orchestra of the League of Composers .................