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From: ckk@g.cs.cmu.edu (Chris Koenigsberg)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: new music
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 19:46:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 19:46:52 1985
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>	From the postings on this net, I would assume that most
>people reading this group are interested in more traditional classical
>music. Is anyone into the 20th century stuff like Berg, Crumb, 
>Penderecki, at all? Has anyone heard Steve Reich's new album?
>
Yes, I am very much into Berg, Penderecki, Stockhausen, Boulez, Xennakis, etc.
whenever I hear them, although I am not familiar enough with their works.
I really love atonal and serial music. It's funny, it seems to turn most
people way off, but frequently I hear a piece that really touches me deeply,
 and then I discover that it was composed serially.

No, I've not heard Steve Reich's new album. I'm not overly familiar
with his work, though some is pleasant. I could probably grow into it with
 enough repeated listening though. I like all the old Philip Glass that
 I've heard, but I find "Satyagraha" interminably dull. I plan to look
 for "Mishima" soon.

Fortunately, Pittsburgh is the home of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, 
directed by David Stock, and supposedly they are the finest group in the
 nation devoted solely to performing modern music. Has anyone else
heard the Pgh. New Music Ensemble? They have an album out on Grenadilla
records, another one out on CRI, and still a third one which just came out.
David Stock also has a couple of recordings of his own, including one
on CRI, "InnerSpace", with John Harbison's piano concerto #1 on the flipside
(Harbison is another great young American composer, now residing in the 
Boston area. One of the finest concerts the Pgh. Symphony played in
recent years was the premiere of Harbison's "Ulysses' Bow").

Finally, someone was asking about a clarinet player. The most famous and 
finest clarinet player I know of is Richard Stoltzmann. He performed here
recently with the Pgh. Symphony and did a Mozart Clarinet Concerto, and is 
noted for that sort of thing, but he also did a concert here last year which
featured a real weird squeaky piece by Stockhausen. I don't know if he
plays much jazz, though.

I wish I were in LA right now for the New Music America '85 festival.
Chris Koenigsberg
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