June 19 - NMA79 - New Music New York - index - NMA birthday Thulani Davis
A guide to the substacks that individually profile each of the days of the New Music New York 1979 festival, which became New Music America the next year when it travelled to Minneapolis
Birthday: Thulani Davis, 1949, Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulani_Davis
https://africanamericanstudies.wisc.edu/staff/thulani-davis/
only one appearance in performance - in a trio with Joseph Jarman and Cheryl Banks at NMA Washington DC 1983. I’ll hope to find more info about this before the posts for the 40th anniversary this fall. - gd
This link describes another hidden music history… of women who write award-winning liner notes. (photo taken from the link)
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New Music New York 1979 - an index to the previous daily substacks
Day 1
Links: The main archives at the Kitchen, NYC ● Michael Galbreth’s New Music America essay ● Discog of Kitchen archive cd ● Musescore link to Philip Glass’ Dance no. 4 ● New Music America archives at U of Houston Library ● gd substack - New Music America radio preview (2019) ● Lovely music liner notes to The Wolfman
y2b: Steve Reich Drumming (Part One) ● Pauline Oliveros The Tuning Meditation ● folder and substack of various versions of The Tuning Meditation - kitchen audio version, Codarts video ● audio of Philip Glass Dance no. 4, audio of Meredith Monk’s Do You Be, video of Meredith Monk’s Travel Song, Robert Ashley’s Wolfman
Screen shots/photos: Administrators at a NMNY panel ● Music Critics Association ● John Rockwell’s New York Times preview via Ear Magazine ● Beth Anderson’s “Note from the Front” (1979) ● Program notes from New Music New York
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day 2
links
Google preview of Michael Nyman’s Experimental Music ● Karl Berger obituary from NY Times ● NMNY79 program at Michael Galbreth’s essay on NMA
screenshots
Charles Wuorinen program from NMA88 ● NMNY program notes ● Beth Anderson’s “Report from the Front” ●
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day 3
links
Jill Kroesen’s 2023 I Really Want to Bomb You (1972-1984 anthology) ● Michael Galbreth’s essay on New Music America
y2b
Charles Amirkhanian The Type without Time audio; Jon Deak A Flatlander in Colorado video ● Jill Krosen Fay Shism Blues at Love of Life Orchestra ●
screenshots
NMNY79 program notes
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day 4
links
Malcolm Goldstein’s 2022 Because A Circle Is Not Enough recording ● NMNY program via Michael Galbreth’s essay
y2b
Philip Corner Gamelan: Italy Revisited III (regolato) audio ● Malcolm Goldstein Vision Soundings 2 audio ● Petr Kotik & SEM Ensemble Many Many Women audio ● Charlie Morrow dream chanting workshop (Iceland) ●
screenshots
NMNY program notes ● Beth Anderson’s “Notes from the Front” ●
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day 5
links
Mary Jane Leach homepage and latest recordings ● Archive.org digital version of his book AACM: A Power Stronger Than Itself ● Discogs re Hampel & Lee Oasis ● Michael Galbreth’s essay on New Music America (2018)
y2b
Don Cherry video from Paris 1979 ● Gunter Hampel and Jeanne Lee audio from 1978 ● Phill Niblock audio of Four Arthurs/Two Octaves and a Fifth ● Phill Niblock with Joseph Celli audio Two Octaves and a Fifth (2018 release)
screenshots
NMA 1987 + 1989 program notes re Mary Jane Leach ● Beth Anderson’s “Notes from the Front” ● NMA excerpt from George Lewis’s book ● NMNY program notes
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day 6
links
The Kitchen archive cd Discog ● Michael Galbreth’s link to NMNY program from his 2018 online essay on NMA
y2b
Charles Dodge Cascando, Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental audio ● Samuel Beckett original version of Cascando (1964) video ● Larry Austin Catalogo Voce audio ● Laurie Spiegel Voices Within audio
screenshots
Beth Anderson’s “Report from the Front”; NMNY program notes ● Laurie Spiegel’s “An Open Letter in the Wake of New Music New York” in Ear magaznie ●
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day 7
links
NY times archive on RoseLee Goldberg’s performance art book (and wikipedia entry on her) ● Dary John Mizelle wikipedia and recent anthology release ● Discog link to The Kitchen’s archive cd ● Michael Galbreth’s program reproduction in his 2018 online essay on New Music America
y2b
David Behrman, Arthur Stidfole and Frankie Mann Touch Tones audio ● Kronos Quartet performing Istvan Marta Doom. A Sigh. audio ● Charlemagne Palestine audio from Kitchen cd ● New videos of Ivan Tcherepnin’s works - Fêtes played by Elaine Chow in 2007 and four works performed by Stephen Gosling from 2004
screenshots
Program notes of NMNY ● Beth Anderson’s “Report from the Front” including a composer from France (Alain Middleton)’s view and Ned Sublette on a conference session ●
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day 8
links
Transcription (not made by gd) of one of the four lectures Brian Eno gave but it doesn’t seem to be the same one as in the y2b link ● Link to gd substack that contains the full transcription ● Discogs link to The Kitchen archive cd ● “Blue” Gene Tyranny - Harvey Milk (Portrait) in two parts ● Michael Galbreth’s online essay on New Music America (2018) which includes the first five festival programs in photostatic reproductions à la pdf.
y2b
audio - Michael Nyman Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (from Kitchen archives cd) ● audio - Brian Eno 1979 lecture (one of four identical ones that year) The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool ● audio recording of Jon Hassell and Brian Eno Rising Thermal ● audio from 1988 of Gordon Mumma, full recording Electroacoustic Music Analog and Digital includes Schoolwork from NMA79
screenshots
Official program notes ● Enlarged photo of Richard Teitelbaum in performance
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day 9
links
Discogs listing of the Kitchen archive cd ● Michael Galbreth’s downloadable pdf of the New Music New York photocopied program in full from his essay on New Music America in 2018
y2b
Frankie Mann recording I Was A Hero from the Mayan Debutante Review ● Laurie Anderson and Julia Heyward Song from America on the Move at the Nova Convention of 1978 ● Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio 2007 live video version from Bretigny sur Orge, France ● Peter Gordon with the Love of Life Orchestra Extended Niceties EP ●
screenshots
Program notes ● Beth Anderson Report from the Front ●
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June 17 - New Music New York wrap-up conferences)
No links, no y2bs, no screenshots; two panels and thus far only a single comment.