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GEORGE PERLE. Short (premiere) Periodicals —16 August 1980 I Tanglewood Festival, Boston Symphony c. Seiji Ozawa. CONTACT (U.K. premiere)—13 January / BBC broad- No.21, Autumn 1980 cast / BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Oliver Dave Smith, The Piano of John White, Knussen. pp.4-11. Michael Parsons, The Music of Howard Skempton, pp. 12-17. NED ROREM. After reading Shakespeare (premiere)—IJ March j New York, Alice KEY NOTES Tully Hall / Sharon Robinson. No.12 (1980/2) Wilhelm Schon, Music Drama at the Holland ROBERT SAXTON. Choruses to Apollo Festival, pp.2-11. Keith Freeman, Le Testament (premiere)—28 January / Royal College of de Villon or An Error Compounded, pp. 12-14. Music (BBC 'College Concert') / BBC Sym- Elmer Schonberger, Stockhausen, the Billy phony Orchestra c. Lionel Friend. Graham of Contemporary Music, pp.ir-16. Peter Schat, Monkey Subdues the White-Bone WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ is working Demon, pp. 17-30. on a song-cycle for voice and piano, com- missioned for the 1981 Berlin Festival. MENS EN MELODIE . Symphony No.9 (U.K. No.8, August 1980 premiere)—20 May / BBC studio recording / Sabine Lichtenstein, Wie is Sylvia Welmant BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra c. pp. 398-403. Frederick Prausnitz. No.9 September 1980 Lisa Peppercorn, Heitor Villa-Lobos en zijn RUDY SHACKELFORD. Familic, PP.4J7-460. No. 2 with soprano, The Broken Tower (prem- iere)—29 April / Pennsylvania State University No.11, November 1980 / Alard Quartet. Ernst Vermeulen, 'Satyagraha1 van , pp.$62-564. ROBERT SIMPSON. Quintet for , clarinet, and 3 double-basses (premiere)— No. 12, December 1980 27 April / / Jack Bryner, Ernst Vermeulen, Zwecdse Avantgarde, pp.616- Steven Trier, members of the London Double- 623. bass Ensemble. Simpson is now working on his Eighth Symphony. No.1, January 1981 D. S. Nagan, , een verleden met KAIKHOSRU SHAPURJI SORABJI's latest ccn toekomst?, pp. 19-26. composition is a substantial work for piano entitled Opus Secrctum. No.2, February 1981 Ernest Vermeulen, Penderecki in Rotterdam, GILES SWAYNE. Pentecost Music (premere) pp.£o-ji. Ernst Vermeulen, Vanuit Olivier —8 April / Manchester / BBC Northern Messiaen, pp.7^-81. Paul Niessing, In Memoriara SO c. Nicholas Cleobury. Alexander Voormolen, pp.82-84.

DAVID DEL TREDICI. All in a Golden MUSICAL QUARTERLY Afternoon (premiere)—8 May / Philadelphia / Vol.LXVI, No.3 July 1980 Benita Valente, c. Robert Craft, 'Histoire du Soldat' (The Alusical . Revisions, the Sketches, the Evolution of the ), pp.321-338. Nigel Wilkins, Erik JULIA USHER. Rites of Transition (London Satie's Letters to Milhaud and Others, premiere)—22 February / Purcell Room / pp.404-428. Robert L. Rollin, Some Younger Hill Square Consort. European Composers, pp.429-438.

THOMAS WILSON. One Foot in Eden Vol.LXVI, No.4 October 1980 (premiere)—8 January / Purcell Room / Mari- Rita H. Mead, Cowell, hes, and 'New Music', lyn de Blieck, Roger Vignoles. pp.538-559. Martha MacLean Hyde, The Telltale Sketches: Harmonic Structure in Schoen- ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY (d. 1942). berg's Twelve-Tone Methods pp.$60-580. R. Der Traumgorge (premiere)—11 October 1980/ Larry Todd, The Genesis of Webern's Op.32, Nurnberg / c. Hans Geister. pp.581-591.

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NEUE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR MUSIK SIR a Discography by Alan September-October 1980 Poulton. Bravura Publications, £4-95. Dietrich Mast, Skrjabin—verlorene Originalitat urn dieJahrhundertwende? pp.431 -436. Wolfgang Burde, Komponistenportrait: Dimitri Terzakis, TON UND WORT The Lieder of PP-443-446- by Barbara A. Petersen. UM1 Research Press (UK suppliers, Bowker Publishing Co.), November-December 1980 £22-00. Wolfgang Burde . . als Komponist und Interpret Interview with Aribert Reimann, pp.$3 J-J36. John Rockwell 'New Music' in Amerika, pp.$46- SS'- INDIAN MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE a Practical Introduction by Neil Sorrell and Ram Narayan, January-February 1981 with accompanying cassette recording by Ram Michael Zimmermann, Komponistenportrait— Narayan. Manchester University Press, Aribert Riemann, pp.29-34. £14-95.

SCHWE1ZERISCHE MUSIKZEITUNG COFFREDO PETRASSI by John S. Weissmann. No.6 November/December 1980 New revised edition. Edizioni Suvini Rosemary Hilmar, Metrische Proportionen und Zerboni, £4-30. serielle Rhythmik im 'Kammerkonzert' von , PP.3JJ-360. CONVERSAZIONI CON PETRASSI by Luca Lombardi. Edizioni , £4-30.

Books received BRITTEN «L AUDEN IN THE THIRTIES by Donald Mitchell. Faber, £7-50.

(A listing in this column does not preclude a review in a future edition of TEMPO) MODERN MUSIC: THE AVANT GARDE SINCE 194$ by Paul Griffiths. Dent, £IJ-OO.

THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF FOLK SONG IN BRITAIN by Fred Woods. Frederick Warne. : a Profile by Abram Chasins. Robert Hale, £8-95-. SOZIOGRAPHIE DES MUSIKLEBENS (Musik und Gesellschaft—Schriftenreihe, Heft 17), G. Braun, Karlsruhe AFTER THE WAKE: An Essay on the Contem- porary Avant-Garde by Christopher Butler. University Press, £7-95. SCHUBERT'S PIANO WORKS by Ernest G. Porter. Dobson, £4-95. THE HUNGARIAN FOLK SONG by Bela Bartok, edited and prefaced by Benjamin Suchoff. JACQUES OFFENBACH a Biography by James State University of New York Press, $39-00 Harding. John Calder £12-95 (hardback), (hardback), $ 12-95 (paperback). £5-95 (paperback).

BETWEEN AND CHAMBERS by Alvin Lucier and Douglas Four Studies in the Music of the Later Nineteenth Simon. Wesleyan University Press, $ 19-50. Century by Carl Dalhaus. Translated by Mary Whittall. With a translation of Nietzsche's On Music and Words by Walter Kaufmann. BASIC ATONAL THEORY by John Rahn. University of California Press, £6-oo. Longman, £o-oo.

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