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The English National Opera performs Philip Glass's three-act opera 'The Making of the Representative for Planet 8' with libretto by Doris Lessing adapted from her 1982 novel of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Act I (0:00) The people of Planet 8 sing of their love for building new houses from sticks and reeds. Their pleasant tasks are interrupted by Johor, a Canopean agent, who warns of “bad times” ahe...

Trailblazing experimental composer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) performs "Rattlesnake Mountain" a 1981 drone composition for accordion and voice live at the Exploratorium in San Francisco on February 21, 1985. 0:00 Intro (with Charles Amirkhanian) 1:12 Rattlesnake Mountain

Recorded live at a performance at the Frankfurt Opera in August 1992 during the opera's second touring revival. Note the significant differences between Lucinda Childs' original version of the "Diagonal Dance" and the version performed by Caitlin Scranton in the 2012-2015 revival: ruclips.net/video/doLaSVWABrw/видео.html "In an open rehearsal of Einstein on the Beach (March 1976), the 45-minute...

David Borden composed a set of twelve preludes and fugues between 2011 and 2017. This video features MIDI realizations of the final three pairs in the set dedicated to composer Pauline Oliveros, musicologist Xak Bjerken, and MIT physicist Neil Gershenfeld respectively. Some of the pieces feature Borden's idiosyncratic style of counterpoint influenced by minimalism, while others incorporate elem...

Part Eight of 'The Continuing Story of Counterpoint' was composed a year after the sad disbanding of the last all-Moog Mother Mallard group. With the minimal amount of equipment I had left, I set up a temporary studio in a vacant firing range at Cornell University during the summer of 1979 and completed Part Eight surrounded by spent shells and perforated targets. It was a difficult time during...

Part Eleven of 'The Continuing Story of Counterpoint' is dedicated to the late pianist Edmund Niemann and numerologically takes its content from his birthdate, 12/25/1945. There are two musical elements: chords and a melodic idea. The duration of the chords and the number of notes in the melody derive from the date. A large portion of this piece is taken up with canons at the unison or octave t...

0:00 Part 1 (1976), scored for electric piano and five monophonic synthesizers 10:00 Part 2 (1982), scored for two pianos or keyboards 21:05 Part 3 (1976), scored for electric piano and five monophonic synthesizers Originally performed by the pioneering synthesizer ensemble Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company. Soundfonts used: 1975 Polymoog 203a (Strings 1 and Brass presets) 1977 Rhod...

Nine European public radio stations coordinated by Hessiche Rundfunk from central studios in Frankfurt joined forces in December 1986 to produce 'Das Lied der Welt' (The Song of the World) by the German composer Hans Otte (1926-2007). For this work there was not a single audience, except for the electronic space of the radio, since only in it were the performances of mixed choirs gathered, each...

Marjan Mozetich is a Canadian composer best known for his 1997 violin concerto 'Affairs of the Heart'. Originally a writer of avant-garde and serial music, beginning in the late 1970s Mozetich shifted his compositional style into a kind of lyrical postminimalism which eventually became full-blown neoromanticism in the mid-1980s. This video compiles a number of compositions written during that t...

Ann Southam (1937-2010) was a Canadian composer best known for her post-minimalist piano works Rivers (1979) and Glass Houses (1981). This video seeks to signal boost several other lesser known works by Southam. 0:00 'Soundstill' for piano (1979) - performed by Helena Bowkun 9:58 'Tuning' for viola and tape (1982) - performed by Douglas Perry 25:10 'Springs of Earth, No. 2' for piano (1983) - p...

Commissioned by the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, Michael Nyman's 'Prologue to Dido and Aeneas' serves as an accompanying work to Henry Purcell's famous Baroque opera. Conceived of by director Natalia Anastasieva and written by Vera Pavlova and Steven Seymour, the libretto concerns the circumstances surrounding the first known performance of Dido and Aeneas at Josiah Priest's boarding...

Commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 'Doing the Rounds' is a work for chorus and orchestra that incorporates the melodies of several traditional English rounds that were composed or complied by the 17th century musician Thomas Ravenscroft. 0:00 Mvt. 1 - Round One (Mault's Come Downe) 1:39 Mvt. 2 - Catches 3:46 Mvt. 3 - The Five Recreations 7:55 Mvt. 4 - Hunting and Hawking (New O...

A selection from Michael Nyman's 1998 unrecorded song cycle with texts by the late poet, art critic, and academic Kevin Power. Text: I’m riding on a tram as usual Observing all the details of the people around. I look at the dress of the girl riding in front of me. I break it down into the fabric from which it’s made And the work that went into making it; The delicate embroidery that trims the ...

Pioneering synthesizer ensemble Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. (David Borden, Chip Smith and Judy Borsher) perform David Borden's compositions 'C-A-G-E Part III' (1975), 'Enfield in Winter' (1978), and 'Frank Sinatra' (1971). 'C-A-G-E Part III' (1975) 0:00 'Enfield in Winter' (1978) 21:52 'Frank Sinatra' (1971) 31:40 Recorded in the studio of WXPN on the campus of the University of P...

Steve Reich - Traveler's Prayer (2020) - Colin Currie Group with Synergy Vocals

Julius Eastman - The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (1981) - Manchester Collective

Steve Reich - Marimba Phase (Live in Paris 1976)

Peter Greenaway/Louis Andriessen - Rosa, a Horse Drama (1993)

Joep Franssens - Grace (2008)

Louis Andriessen - 'Dances' for soprano and chamber orchestra (1991)

David Borden - Variations on a Theme of Philip Glass (2011-2014)

John Adams - Those Birds Flying Above Us / Night Chorus - Live in Amsterdam 2001

Michael Nyman - Manhatta (2003)

Michael Nyman - 'Fourths, Mostly' for organ (2001)

Joep Franssens - 'New Departure' for piano and cello (1996)

Laurie Anderson United States Live at the Palladium, NYC 05/27/82

Michael Nyman - Scherzo from 'Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra' (2001)

Jonathan Kramer - Music for Piano, No. 5 (1980)

Max Richter - Excerpts from 'Sleep' - Live in Sydney 2016