(Oct 18) Index to New Music America Philadelphia 1987 – links, y2bs, screenshots for each day
October 2, 1987 - New Music America Philadelphia, day 1/10
New Music America '87 officially opened on Friday, October 2nd with a gala reception at the Philadelphia Maritime Museum followed by an opening-night concert in the Museum's Theatre. Music for Marcel Duchamp for prepared piano by John Cage, played by Relâche pianist John Dulik, was a perfect opening night work honoring two seminal figures of the 20th century art in the city where many of Duchamp's works reside.
links: John Dulik plays John Cage (concert archival recording) ● James Fulkerson sonata (c.a.r.)● Odaline de la Martinez by Relâche (c.a.r.) ● Odeon Pope performance (c.a.r.) ● Relâche Chronicles podcast no. 9 ● Joseph Franklin Settling Scores
y2bs - none
screenshots: Festival map ● Marcel Duchamp pix ● Stephen Montague pix ● Frederico Garcia Lorca pix ● Daniel Webster opening night review ● cover of Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
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October 3, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 2/10
New Music America 1987 Philadelphia, Day 2 Marcel Duchamp, Centenary Lecture RoseLee Goldberg, "New Music and the History of Performance" Marc-André Hamelin - Charles Forbes - Laurel Wickoff Aaron Kernis: Music for Trio Cycle 4 Part 1 Relâche - William Duckworth:
links: George Russell’s African Game (concert actual recording) ● Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
y2bs: none
screenshots: NMA87 advertisement ● Aaron Jay Kernis program insert ● William Duckworth program insert ● George Russell press pix and program insert ● ticket to salsa party ● cover of Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
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October 4, 1950 Steve Swallow // 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 3/10
Alvin Curran, Alvin The Maritime Rites (rescheduled from October 3 due to weather conditions) Temple University Orchestra with Guy Klucevsek Henry Cowell: Concerto Brevis Temple University Orchestra Alvin Lucier: Kettles Melinda Wagner: Passages
links: Link to July 8 gd substack post which includes more information about Alvin Lucier’s Maritime Rites ● Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
y2bs (all audio only except for Michael Nyman): Alvin Lucier Maritime Rites ● Uncredited version of Cowell’s Concerto Brevis ● Ron George performing John Bergamo’s Gupta Solka Chanda ● Television version (complete!) from 1987 of Michael Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
screenshots: Program insert (p.i.) for Relâche/Henry Cowell Concerto Brevis ● Gd gets quoted in the Philadelphia newspaper ● p.i. for Temple City Symphony playing Alvin Lucier’s Kettles ● p.i. for Melinda Wagner’s Passages ● p.i. for John Bergamo’s Gupta Solka Chanda ● Reading Times review of Michael Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ● Philadelphia Inquirer review of Hannibal Peterson ● wiki photo of Steve Swallow ● Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
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October 5, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 4
Sussan Deyhim and Richard Horowitz from the recording of what they played live on this date (see below for link to full performance audio):
links: Almost full concert archival recording of Margaret Leng-Tan ● full c.a.r. of Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim ● c.a.r. of Relâche playing Thomas Albert ● c.a.r. of Borah Bergman’s performance ● c.a.r. of Lawrence “Butch” Morris-Wayne Horvitz-Bobby Previte performance ● link to gd transcript of New Music Alliance meeting ● Link to Relâche Chronicles podcast no. 9 re NMA87 ●
y2bs: Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim Jum Jum (audio) ● Inner Pulse Ensemble plays Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death (video) ● HMP Trio recording of Nine Below Zero (audio)
screenshots: Program Insert for Margaret Leng-Tan ● p.i. for Hebert Blau lecture ● program pix of Richard Posner installation ● Penn Contemporary Players cast and p.i. of George Crumb ● Program bio of Deihim and Horowitz ● p.i. for Deihim and Horowitz and Relâche playing Thomas Albert ● Borah Bergman profile in Philadelphia Inquirer ● p.i. for HMP Trio set ● p.i. for Andrew Rudin ●
substack audio: gd recordings of the New Music Alliance Meetings of October 5 ● excerpts from Good Sound Foundation lecture ● Excerpt from Herbert Blau lecture and panel (recorded from the audience) ●
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October 6, 1987 New Music America Philadelphia Day 5
Tuesday, October 6, 1987 New Music America Philadelphia, Day 5 New Music Alliance Meetings Day 2 Jerome Rothenberg panel with Toby Wilson, Paul Epstein, Greg Allen Tate, Morton Levitt: "New Music and the Literary Imagination" lecture and panel Relâche featuring Barbara Noska
links: concert archival recording of Fonville-Laberge ● c.a.r. of Taylor playing Davidson ● Tina Davidson’s memoir Let Your Heart Be Broken ● Relâche Chronicles podcast, episode 8 on Romulus Franceschini
y2bs: Michael Winkler Word Works Part 2 (video) ● Marshall Taylor playing Tina Davidson’s Transparent Victims (audio) ● Louise Bessette and Aventa Ensemble play Gilles Tremblay’s Le Signe du Lion (audio) ● Glen Velez performs Rain (video) ● Glen Velez and Layne Redmond perform Internal Combustion (audio)
screenshots: newspaper pix of Barbara Noska and Romulus Franceschini ● program insert of Paul Epstein performed by Relâche ● p.i. of Jerome Rothenberg lecture and panel ● p.i. of Laberge-Fonville ● p.i. of Kixx ● p.i. of Marshall Taylor playing Tina Davidson ● cover of Tina Davidson’s Let Your Heart Be Broken ● Elliott Sharp program bio ● Romulus Franceschini essay in official program
substack audio: gd recording of New Music Alliance meeting ● radio interview during festival of Tina Davidson ● Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec plays Michel Longtin (radio capture) ● SMCQ plays Claude Vivier (r. c.) ● Walter Boudreau (SMCQ) interview (r.c.) ● excerpt of Elliott Sharp performance (r.c.) ● Glen Velez performance excerpt (r.c.)
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October 7, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 6
New Music Alliance Meeting 3 re Miami 1988 Susan McClary - Lecture: New Music and Postmodernism Relâche - Robert Ashley: Complete with Heat Peter Zummo Ensemble: Selections from The Suite Six Songs Fast Forward: Pulse Points Maggi Payne and Ed Tannenbaum with Lynette Kessler,
links: link to gd substack containing New Music Alliance meeting transcript ● Susan McClary wikipedia bio ● Susan McClary Case Reserve University bio ● Concert archival recording of Peter Zummo Ensemble ● Fast Forward c.a.r. ● Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores ● Relâche Chronicles Podcast on Polka from the Fringe
y2bs: Peter Rose’s Babel aka Idiots (vimeo video) ●
screenshots: Maggi Payne and Ed Tannenbaum program insert ● Marcelle Deschênes p.i. ● Alain Thibault p.i. ● Peter Rose p.i. ● Joseph Franklin’s Settling Scores
substack audio: New Music Alliance meeting re Miami 1988 ●
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October 8, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 7
New Music Alliance Meetings Day 4: Montreal 1990 proposal Roger Reynolds lecture and panel: “Music, Technology and Cultural Change” 1215-1345 Broad Street Concourse Relâche - Bob Goldberg “Music for Subways” Douglas Kahn, Linda Montano, Peter Rose, Michael Winkler and Suzanne Delehanty
links: gd soundcloud that contains all my Philadelphia tracks ● Laurie Spiegel Passage on bandcamp ● Benjamin Franklin’s Drinker’s Dictionary from the US National Archives
y2bs: Ron Kuivila’s Loose Canons (excerpt, audio) ● Richard Teitelbaum Golem full album from 1995 (audio)
screenshots: current photo of Broad Street Concourse ● Roger Reynolds program insert for lecture and panel ● Bob Goldberg program bio ● Shelley Hirsch and David Weinstein p.i. ● Shamanistics p.i. ● Anthony Coleman p.i. ● Salvatore Martirano p.i. ● Richard Teitelbaum p.i. ● Benjamin Franklin’s Drinker’s Dictionary (one page) from the US National Archives
substack audio: New Music Alliance meeting re Montreal 1990 ● gd recording of Relâche performing Bob Goldberg’s Music for Subways ● radio capture of Shelley Hirsch & David Weinstein (excerpt) ● WXPN Radio host talking about Hirsch & Weinstein ● Joel Chadabe and Jan Williams - concert actual recording (r.c.) ● Ron Kuivila excerpt (c.a.r./r.c.)
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October 9, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 8
Friday October 9, 1987 New Music America Philadelphia New Music Alliance Meetings Day 4: Report on NMA NYC 1989 Lou Harrison: “The Sources of New Music” panel with Richard Wernick, Alfred Blatter, William Duckworth “and others”. Marc-André Hamelin and Diane Monroe play Charles Ives
links: Joseph Franklin Settling Scores ● Relâche Chronicles podcast no. 7 on NMA87 ●
y2bs: Timothy Fain and Jeremy Denk version of Charles Ives’s Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 3 (audio) ● Marc-André Hamelin plays Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata (no. 2) (audio) ● Tom Cora improvisation from 1987 (video but not from festival) ●
screenshots: Wiki photo of Borbetomagus ● Lou Harrison lecture and panel program insert ● Marc-André Hamelin and Diane Monroe playing Ives p.i. ● Ned Rothenberg p.i. ● Tom Cora p.i. ● Anita Feldman p.i. ● Invite the Spirit p.i. ● Geri Allen p.i. ● Borbetomagus p.i. ● Joseph Franklin Settling Scores
substack audio: New Music Alliance on BAM/NMA 1989 ● excerpt from Marc-André Hamelin and Diane Monroe playing Charles Ives Sonata no. 3 ● Tiny snippets of Anita Feldman ● Tiny snippet of Invite the Spirit ● gd recording of Borbetomagus from the audience
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October 10, 1987 NMA Philadelphia day 9
Saturday October 10, 1987 New Music America Philadelphia New Music Alliance Meeting: Electing New Board Members Leif Brush: Connecting Surface Waves: The Terrain Broadcasts Joseph Kasinskas: Echoes in PalindromesSusan Stenger: The Structures of Everyday Life
links: Susan Stenger’s 2012 version of The Structures of Everyday Life ● Relâche Chronicles podcast re NMA87 ● Joseph Franklin Settling Scores
y2bs: Susan Stenger recent interview (video) ● Mary Jane Leach 4BC (video) ● Mary Jane Leach 2015 interview with Frank Oteri and Molly Sheridan (video) ● Warren Burt’s Music for Tuning Forks (audio) ● Bruce Mather Poème du Délire (audio) ● ROVA Saxophone Quartet The Unquestioned Answer for Charles Ives (audio with stills) ● Roger Reynolds Voicespace IV (audio)
screenshots: David Mahler program bio ● Joseph Kasinskas program insert ● Susan Stenger p.i. ● Susan Stenger’s 2012 version of The Structures of Everyday Life (photo) ● Warren Burt p.i. ● Philadelphia Inquirer review of afternoon concert ● Philip Corner p.i. ● Bruce Mather p.i. ● ROVA Saxophone Quartet p.i. ● Roger Reynolds p.i. ● Joseph Franklin Settling Scores
substack audio: New Music Alliance meeting - board election ●gd, Mary Jane Leach, Phill Niblock and Stewart Boesalager walking around Fairmount Park searching for Leif Brush’s signal ● Warren Burt’s Music for Tuning Forks ● excerpt from audience of David Mahler/Stewart Dempster performance ●
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Oct 11: 1987 - NMA Philadelphia last day; 1941 - Lester Bowie; 1954 - Tim Page; 1965 - Alexander Hacke
New Music America Philadelphia 1987: Closing Concert
links: link to gd posting and transcription of Relâche Chronicles podcast no. 3 on Pauline Oliveros and The Well
y2bs: Paul Jacobs plays Frederick Rzewski’s Four North American Ballads (video of score) ● Ursula Oppens recent (2022) interview
screenshots: program insert for final concert (Relâche, Daniel Goode, Oppens plays Rzewski, everyone plays Pauline Oliveros ● Review of American Theatre Festival’s presentation of Harry Partch’s Revelation in the Courthouse Park (Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily Paper)
substack audio: Augusta LaPaix interviews Pauline Oliveros (during festival) (radio capture) ● gd walking around with an open microphone during closing cocktail party in Philadelphia (82 minutes of mingling with composers and talking too much)