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Crank up the old radio or boot up the new computer.
Listen to the submissions to the 60x60 for 2008 with
The 60x60 Radio Request Extravaganza on
Kalvos and Damian
Saturday July 19th, 2008 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time
WGDR 91.1 FM - live over the airwaves
http://wgdr.org/ - live webcast
http://www.kalvos.org/
and
Martian Gardens
Sunday July 20th at 9:30 PM - 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
WMUA 91.1 FM
- live over the airwaves
www.wmua.org/
- live webcast http://martiangardens.blogspot.com
The New York Times hailed "Kalvos and Damian's New Music Bazaar continually
document the breadth and vivacity of American musical creativity in a way
that no concert promoter or station manager could possibly afford."
Kalvos and Damian have interviewed hundreds of composers and musicians; a
Links to Radio show promos
www.voxnovus.com/1.mp3
www.voxnovus.com/2.mp3
www.voxnovus.com/3.mp3
Max Shea, host of Martian Gardens, have been a supporter of the 60x60
project since 2005. They have routinely played tracks of the 60x60 project
and its composers over the past 3 years.
So take a listen to the crazy adventure of the 60x60 Radio Request
Extravaganza and get an idea of what is in store for the 60x60 project in
2008-2009.
Hear you there!
Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
Artistic Director of the 60x60 project
Vice-President of Programs, Living Music Foundation
Founder of Vox Novus
www.VoxNovus.com
"The 60x60 series - concert-style listening events showcasing 60
contemporary electronic music compositions, each no longer than 60 seconds
in duration, played in succession over one hour ... [is a] tantalizing audio
collage...'
- Gone in 60 Minutes: Electronic Compositions Showcased at NC State
University, by Alexandra Jones Classical Voice of North Carolina October
2007
"... a musically eclectic mix of murmurs, melodies and motifs... ... 60 x
60, programmed an hour of new music, presenting 60 new works, each only 60
seconds long."
- In Concert, 60 Times the Fun, By Sophia Yan Oberlin Review April 27, 2007
"60x60 showcases a wealth of brief, contemporary compositions. There are no
live performances, so you can't really call it a concert. Maybe it would
better be described as a listening party. ... It's like a Whitman's sampler
of the contemporary new music scene. "
- Sound Sampler, by Greg Haymes Times Union February 9, 2006
60x60 (2007-2008/Pacific Rim Mix) composers include:
Robert Allaire, Yoshiko Ando, Adam Basanta, Brian Belet, Herb Bielawa, John
Biggs, Daniel Blinkhorn, Benjamin Boone, James Brody, Warren Burt, Ann
Cantelow, Christy Carew, Jesse S. Clark, dokuro (Agnes Szelag & The Norman
Conquest), David Dvorin, Cenk Ergun, thea Farhardian, Richard Festinger,
Heather Frasch, Larry Gaab, Kraig Grady, David Hahn, Jennie Hammett,
Robin-Julian Heifetz, Cheyenne Henderson, Cole Ingraham, Travis Johns,
Bejamin Dorfan and Julian Cartwright, David S Lefkowitz, David Litke, Sean
Luciw, Katie McMurran, Noah Gideon Meites, Michael Mollo, Julia Norton,
Benjamin O'brien, Junya Oikawa, otonomiyaki (Alan Nakagawa + Kio Griffith),
Maggi Payne, S.J. Pettersson, David Reader, Prent Rodgers, Lee Rosevere,
Bettie Ross, John Schappert, Bruce Schneider, B. Emerson Scott, Alex
Shapiro, Rodrigo Sigal, Mingzhu Song, Mark Stanford, Peter Swanzy,
Shinichiro Toyoda,Kubilay Uner, Nick Vasallo, Chris Ward, Ryan Wiigins,
Katrina Wreede, Jeremy Zuckerman, and big city orchestra
60x60 (2007/International Mix) composers include:
Henri Algadafe, John Allemeier, Thomas Bailey, Joel-Aime Beauchamp, Benjamin
Boone, Monique Buzzarte, Adam Caird, Grégory Chatonsky, Jesse Clark, Cindy
Cox, Noah Creshevsky, David Cutler, Tilmann Dehnhard, Robert Dick, Andrew
Eckel, Iris Garrelfs, Thierry Gauthier, Marcel Gehrman, Thomas Gerwin, Tomer
Harari, Risto Holopainen, Alphons Izzo, Michiko Kawagoe, Joelle Khoury,
Panayiotis Kokoras, Gintas Kraptavicius, Sophie Lacaze, Micky Landau, Tuan
Hung Le, Graziano Lella, Meng-chia Lin, Drake Mabry, Chris Mann, Al
Margolis, John Maters, Christian McLeer, David McIntire, David Morneau, Jeff
Morris, Tim Mukherjee, Alex Nadjarov, Helen Nattrass, Serban Nichifor, Blas
Payri, John Pitts, Gene Pritsker, Tim Reed, Stephen B. Rothman, Anne van
Schothorst, Laurie Spiegel, Ken Steen, Olivier Tache, Eldad Tsabary,
Philippe Vernier, Andrea Vigani, Daniel Visconti, Jane Wang, Rodney Waschka
II, Simon Whetham, Sabrina Pena Young, and Cynthia Zaven
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- 60x60 Broadcasts:
The new double album release of the 60x60 project is being aired regularly
on WMUA, WKCR, and WOBC.
Our oldest supporter, Max Shea with his radio program, "Martian Gardens" has
been playing selections of the 60x60 for the past 4 years. He has been
playing one or more selections on his show airing on: WMUA FM 91.1 Amherst,
Massachusetts.
with web simulcast at: /www.wmua.org
MARTIAN GARDENS is on Sundays 21:00-24:00 Eastern Standard Time
online playlists can be found at: weblogs/martian
Next is Anne Cammon's "Art Waves," a literary radio program, featuring
poetry, fiction, radio drama, and experimental literature. Miss Cammon uses
the 60x60 project as refreshing interludes between the literary works.
"Art Waves" airs on Fridays 9:00-10:00 pm Eastern standard time.
Tune in at 89.9 FM or listen on-line at /www.wkcr.org.
Feel free to learn more about WKCR shows at www.wkcr.org/wkcrarts
Anne Cammon's show airs about once a month, including this Friday October
5th which features another exciting literary journey combining music and the
spoken word. With sizzling works by Palestinian-American poet Natalie
Handal, portraits of Bombay and New York City by poet Jeet Thayil, a
novel-excerpt on the life of a junior cartographer by Reif Larson,
and text-sound adaptation of poems from Anne's collection India Songs, by
composer Robert Voisey. Not including works from the 60x60 (2004-2005) CD.
Most recently 60x60 has been airing on Tom Lopez's "Foldover" airing every
Monday from 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin,
Ohio (just outside of Cleveland). The show can also be heard over the
Internet at: www.wobc.org
Last Monday he featured 25 works from the 60x60 project.
A web site with information about FOLDOVER can be found at:
www.timara.oberlin.edu
It includes playlists and information on how to find recordings of the
music.
I hope you are in the area to tune in to one of these programs or have the
time to listen to their simulcast over the World Wide Web.
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Composers featured in 60x60 (2006 / International Mix) include:
Aaron Acosta Liana Alexandra John Allemeier Dwight Ashley Marc Barreca Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Gina Biver James Bohn Marita Bolles Ann Cantelow Nicolas Chausseau Andrew Cole Christopher Cook Cindy Cox Antonino Cuscina Robert Dick Ian Dicke Greg Dixon Aaron Drake Ivan Elezovic |
David Fenech Monroe Golden David Gunn David Hahn Erdem Helvacioglu Tony Higgins Stuart Hinds Lynn Job Julian Jonker Yasushi Kamata Nicole Kim Joan La Barbara Stan Link Don Malone Dylan Mattingly Maurilio Cacciatore Andra McCartney Anastasio Mitropoulos Annele Nederberg David Newby |
Serban Nichifor Rodney Oakes Ronald Parks Maggi Payne Samuel Pluta David Shannon Alan Shockley Scott Smallwood Laurie Spiegel Asha Srinivasan Alex Temple Balie Todd Eldad Tsabary Kubilay Uner Mark Vernon Katrina Wreede Xiting Yang Ivan Zavada Oded Zehavi and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (collective)
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Composers featured in 60x60 (2007 / International Mix) include:
Henri Algadafe John Allemeier Thomas Bailey Joel-Aime Beauchamp Benjamin Boone Monique Buzzarte Adam Caird Gregory Chatonsky Jesse Clark Cindy Cox Noah Creshevsky David Cutler Tilman Dehnhard Robert Dick Andrew Eckel Iris Garrelfs Thierry Gauthier Marcel Gehrman Thomas Gerwin Tomer Harari |
Risto Holopainen Alphons Izzo Michiko Kawagoe Joelle Khoury Panayiotis Kokoras Gintas Kraptavicius Sophie Lacaze Micky Landau Tuan Hung Le Graziano Lella Meng-chia Lin Drake Mabry Chris Mann Al Margolis John Maters Christian McCleer David McIntire David Morneau Jeff Morris Tim Mukherjee |
Alex Nadjarov Helen Nattras Serban Nichifor Blas Payri John Pitts Gene Pritsker Tim Reed Stephen B. Rothman Anne van Schotholst Laurie Spiegel Ken Steen Oliver Tache Eldad Tsabary Andrea Vigani Daniel Visconti Jane Wang Rodney Waschka II Simon Whetham Sabrina Pena Young and Cynthia Zaven
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Composers included in 60x60 (2006) International Mix: |
Aaron Acosta Liana Alexandra John Allemeier Dwight Ashley Marc Barreca
Dennis Bathory-Ktitsz Gina Biver James Bohn Marita Bolles Ann Cantelow
Nicolas Chausseau Andrew Cole Christopher Cook Cindy Cox Antonino
Cuscina Robert Dick Ian Dicke Greg Dixon Aaron Drake Ivan Elezovic, | |
David Fenech Monroe Golden David Gunn David Hahn Erdem Helvacioglu
Tony Higgins Stuart Hinds Lynn Job Julian Jonker Yasushi Kamata Nicole
Kim Joan La Barbara Stan Link Don Malone Dylan Mattingly Maurilio
Cacciatore Andra McCartney Anatasio Mitropoulos Annele Nederberg David
Newby Serban Nichifor | |
Rodney Oakes Ronald Parks Maggi Payne Samuel
Pluta David Shannon Alan Shockley Scott Smallwood Laurie Spiegel Asha
Srinivasan Alex Temple Balie Todd Eldad Tsabary Kubilay Uner Mark Vernon Katrina Wreede Xiting Yang Ivan Zavada Oded Zehavi and
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Composers included in 60x60 (2006) New York Minutes Mix: |
Sara Ayers Kenneth Babb Ernst Bacon Eve Beglarian Benjamin Bierman
Benjamin Bierman Jeremiah Bornfield George Brunner Monique Buzzarte Doug
Cohen Noah Creshevsky Douglas DaSilva John de Clef Pineiro Robert Dick Robert Fanelli Mary Feinsinger Roger Fife Roger Fife Jason
Freeman Evan Gallagher David Gamper Bob Gluck | |
Daniel Goode Seth Gordon Andy Graydon Gordon Green Melissa Grey Jennifer Griffith Franz Hackl Jeffrey Harrington Noah Haverkamp Emiko Hayashi Ray Levitt Peter
Heller Sean Hickey Brian & Eugene Kim House Daniel Iglesia Travis Johns Richard Kostelanetz Briggan Krauss Joan La Barbara Mary Jane Leach John Link | |
Annea Lockwood Glenn Marsala Paula Matthusen Kevin McCoy Jordan McLean Jake Merkin Christopher North Frank J. Oteri Jonathan Pieslak Timothy Polashek Gene Pritsker Martin Simon David Snow Laurie Spiegel Patrick Stacey Hans Tammen Francisco Toro Samuel Tymorek Robert Voisey Charles Waters David Wolfson |
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Composers in the 60x60 (2004-2005) CD Release: |
Riad Abdel-Gawad Aaron Acosta Liana Alexandra John Allemeier Lydia Ayers Kenneth Babb Jethro Bagust Christopher Bailey Christian
Banasik Greg Bartholomew Dennis Báthory-Kitsz J.C. Batzner Eve Beglarian Stephen Betts Sandeep Bhagwati Benjamin Bierman John G. Bilotta Jason Bolte Benjamin Boone Justin Breame George Brunner Benedikt Brydern Paul Burnell Julian Cartwright Elvio Cipollone David Claman Paul Clouvel Douglas Cohen Ray Cole Andrew Cormier Noah Creshevsky Lucio Cuellar Aaron Drake Moritz Eggert Ivan Elezovic Travis Ellrot Karlheinz Essl Carlo Forlivesi Justin Freeman Larry Gaab David Gamper
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J.Ryan Garber Douglas Geers Peter Gilbert Robert Gluck Daniel Goode Ramón Gorigoitia David Gunn Mike Hallenbeck David Hamill Pat Hanchet David Handford Marihiko Hara Jason Heald James Hegarty Erdem Helvacioglu Mark Henry Dorothy Hindman Bernard Hughes David Jaggard Lynn Job Solange Kershaw Killick Merivon KleinSmid Gary Knudson Igor Korneitchouk Myroslava Lashkevych John Link Stan Link Tom Lopez Don Malone Charles Norman Mason Mike McFerron David McIntire James McWilliam Leslie Melcher James
Miley Polly Moller David Mooney Serban Nichifor Julia Norton Rodney
Oakes | |
Richard O'Donnell Cezary Ostrowski Ronald Parks Maggi Payne Alexis Perepelcia Mark Petering Samuel Pluta Kevin Ponto Giuseppe
Rapisarda Malcom Rector Steven Ricks Mark Rose Robert Sazdov John
Schappert Heike Schmidt Jacky Schreiber Alex Shapiro Martin Simon Adam
Sovkoplas Kenneth Steen Paul Steenhuisen Jonathan Stone Allen Strange Dirk Johan Stromberg Thomas Sutter Peter Swanzy Peter Swendsen Mike Swinchoski Piotr Szewczyk Norman Teale Robert Scott Thompson Vladimir Tošic Eldad Tsabary Mike Vernusky Rene Veron Joseph Vogel Robert Voisey Chris Ward Straiph Wilson Katrina Wreede |
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"60x60 showcases a wealth of brief, contemporary compositions. There are no
live performances, so you can't really call it a concert. Maybe it would
better be described as a listening party. ... It's like a Whitman's sampler
of the contemporary new music scene. "
- Sound Sampler Greg Haymes, Times Union, Albany New York February 9, 2006
"60x60 features 60 back-to-back pieces that are each under 60 seconds long,
each by a different modern composer. ... It's like channel surfing through
experimental music."
Geeta Dayal, Village Voice, New York, New York March 16-22, 2005 Vol. NO.
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"... The idea of commissioning sixty pieces each a minute long has elements
of both ingenuity combined with madness: ... A minute can be ample time to
express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds, or it can be a constraint which
forces an artist to isolate what is the most important element of a work.
The point of the project is that it enables an audience to take in and enjoy
a cross section of different approaches to new music within a reasonable
duration. And the purpose of Robert Voisey is to promote new music ..."
- Ingenuity and madness? Malcolm Miller, Music & Vision, London UK December
24, 2005
60 Composers in this year's Pacific Rim Mix include:
Nicholas Baldwin
Marc Barreca
Lembit Beecher
John Biggs
Betty Breath
Darren Buhr
Brigid Burke
Rosalinda Carlson
Sharon Cheslow
Lut Yun
(Lucinda) Chiu
Foster Clark
Jared Commerer
Cindy Cox
Michael Dawson
A.L. Dentel
Aaron Drake
Alex Eddington
Jessica Gardiner
Kara Gibbs
David Hahn | |
Yuko Hamura
Jason Heald
Sungji Hong
Jeffrey Hunkin
Celeste
Hutchins
David Evan Jones
Yasushi Kamata
Koji Kawai
Donald Kepple
Anton
Killin
Nicole Kim
Tuan Hung Le
Cheryl Leonard
James Mason
Beryl Matete
Deeann Mathews
Dylan Mattingly
Polly Moller
Julia Norton
Rodney Oakes | |
Robert Parker
Maggi Payne
Peggy Polias
Carlos Rafael Rivera
Stephen C
Ruppenthal
Simon Munro Rycroft
Margaret Schedel
Jacky Schreiber
Alex
Shapiro
Frank Sprague
Phillip Stearns
Sarah Taylor
Kubilay Uner
John
Villec
Robert Voisey
Shane Watters
Katrina Wreede
Hajime Yabe
Carolyn
Yarnell
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The concert program can be found at the following link:
www.voxnovus.com/60x60/2006_Pacific_Rim_Concert_Program.htm
"60x60 is a one hour listening experience containing 60 works, each 60
seconds or less. Most likely you have never heard music like this before,
or at the very least you haven't heard in a format like this: 60 works
varying in style and aesthetic from today's composers living all around the
world. You will love at least one piece. You will probably hate one piece.
But whether you love or hate what you are listening to, within 60 seconds
you will be listening to something different." - Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and impresario of new works; he seeks innovative
and creative approaches to promote the music of today's composers. Voisey
is the Artistic Director of the 60x60 project, the Composer's Voice concert
series, Vice-President of Programs for the Living Music Foundation and
Founder and Director of Vox Novus.
60x60 Project - California Premier of the 60x60 Pacific Rim Mix
Thursday Night Special @ Mills College 8pm.
Ensemble Room, Mills College
5000 Mac Arthur Boulevard
Oakland, California
< a href="http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm">www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm
www.mills.edu/maps/campus_map.pdf
Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
Artistic Director of the 60x60 project
Vice-President of Programs, Living Music Foundation
Founder of Vox Novus
www.VoxNovus.com
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Live internet broadcasts are available. Go to this URL:
www.wobc.org
There is a web site with information about FOLDOVER
www.timara.oberlin.edu); it includes
playlists and information on how to find recordings of the music.
FOLDOVER is organized by - Tom Lopez
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 USA
"60x60 showcases a wealth of brief, contemporary compositions ... It's like
a Whitman's sampler of the contemporary new music scene.
- Sound Sampler Greg Haymes Times Union February 9, 2006
FOLDOVER is on WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland).
Live internet broadcasts are available. Go to this URL:
www.wobc.org
There is a web site with information about FOLDOVER
www.timara.oberlin.edu
Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
Artistic Director of the 60x60 project
Vice-President of Programs, Living Music Foundation
Founder of Vox Novus
www.VoxNovus.com
COME LISTEN TO 60X60,
a circle of sound,
a slice of the scene,
one hour of new music.
"60x60 features 60 back to back pieces that are
60 seconds long, each by a different modern
composer...it's like channel-surfing through
experimental music!"
-Village Voice
"Andy Warhol gave us 15 minutes to bask in glory, but
Rob Voisey has cut to the chase; state your case in 60
seconds or less."
-Noah Creshevsky
"Not since John Cage's "Indeterminacy" has the flow of
time from one minute to the next been so significant."
-Doug Cohen
"[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works
by established and emerging composers. Those voices
should be heard, and can even be reheard on the Vox
Novus website (www.voxnovus.com).
-New Music Connoisseur
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Updated information will be posted at:
www.voxnovus.com/60x60/Concerts.htm
Vox Novus
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The 60x60 project is designed for flexibility for growing and
expanding. One of the missions is to perform as many works possible.
This year we are doing something new. We are picking the participants for
our regional selection of the 60x60 project before the main selection. This
year we received a tremendous number of submissions from the Midwest and
immediate central regions of the United States. We have endeavored to
produce a regional concert for this region in the past and this year we will
be able to accomplish this goal.
Following are the participants in the American Heartland who have been
included in the concert:
Greg Allen,
J. Anthony Allen,
Christopher Bailey,
Stacey Barelos,
J.C.
Batzner,
Robert Berg ,
Michael Berkowski,
Kari Besharse,
Timothy Brace,
Pui-Shan Cheung,
Greg Chmura,
Daniel Clem,
John Consiglio,
Zachary Crockett,
Lucio Cuellar,
Matthew Davidson,
John Dribus,
Ivan Elezovic,
Travis Ellrott,
Andrew Estel,
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Timothy Flood,
Ryan Garber,
Doug Geers,
John Gibson,
Jacob
Gotlib,
Jason Gresl,
Mike Hallenbeck,
James Hegarty,
Norbert Herber,
David
Heuser,
Dorothy Hindman,
Gregory Hoepfner,
Craig Hultgren,
Lynn Job,
Kanniks Kannikeswaran,
Noah Keesecker,
Gary Knudson,
Sabin Levi,
Stan Link,
Tom Lopez,
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Mike McFerron,
David McIntre,
Michael John Mollo,
Laurie Lee Moses,
Michael Murphy,
Curt Nordgaard,
Richard O'Donnell,
Sean
O'Neill,
Samuel Pluta,
Steve Ricks,
James Romig,
Phillip Schroeder,
Mozhgan
Shahidi,
Adam Sovkoplas,
Thomas Sutter,
Michael Taylor,
Fred Tompkins,
Mike
Vernusky and
Joseph Vogel
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Click the following link for the concert program:
Concert_Program_Midwest.htm
(Selections for the International 60x60 coming soon)
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by Michael Colgrass
2006 marks the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Michael Colgrass' orchestral homage to the great master, LETTER FROM MOZART is a light, colorful piece, popular with audiences, and a unique and entertaining contribution to the repertoire, based on a fictional letter to the composer from Wolfgang himself.
Mozart's letter, complete program notes, and selected reviews are below. For perusal scores, recordings, and more information about Michael Colgrass and LETTER FROM MOZART, please visit www.brhoadsandassociates.com or www.michaelcolgrass.com.
LETTER FROM MOZART
Dear Michael:
I would like to be your inspiration for a piece of music. I have been watching the development of music since my time and am especially interested to see how an idea of mine would come out when filtered through the mind of a twentieth-century composer. Let me give you a typical Austrian-type folk melody (I'll think up an original one), and you apply to it techniques of contemporary music in any way you like.
Now, you may wonder why I chose you for this task. First, I know I'm your favorite composer and that counts a great deal with me. Second, you are a percussionist, and one of my secret dreams has always been to write something for percussion, but in my day it wasn't dignified. But perhaps my primary reason for choosing you is that your name would have been Migele Colagrossi, had you been born in Italy like your father. I loved Italy more than any other country.
Getting back to this new piece, may I suggest that it be a work of light quality, not superficial, Mozartian! Many artists today seem to feel their work must express the age they live in, and cite war, corruption and crime as reason for creating bitter and angry work. My God, if only you could have experienced some of the miseries of the age I lived in, disease, oppression, poverty! And corruption! Life wasn't all bad, of course, and there was much beauty in my age, but so there is in yours, and why not try to capture that spirit, too?
One last word: don't quote any of my existing music, just use this melody I send you (Goodness, I've written so many pieces I hope I didn't use this tune and forget having done so!).
Good luck to you, and I hope you have fun with it.
Your friend,
Mozart
PROGRAM NOTES
As the music begins, the "Mozart" tune is played on a piano or a toy piano. The contemporary techniques that are applied to it in the course of the work are many and varied, but the attentive listener will hear older, familiar ones too, as the composer meditates and muses on his subject and sometimes transforms it beyond recognition.
From time to time, small groups of musicians play music of their own in separate ensembles that are independent of the others. At a particularly complex moment just before the work comes to an end, there are six separate groups. The score is organized so that two conductors lead all the players through their parts.
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"The work is as fanciful as the title, which refers to a fictional letter the composer claims to have received from the Viennese master, exhorting Colgrass to write a work using a Mozart-like theme. Musically, Colgrass creates a kaleidoscope effect by embedding a straightforward eight-bar theme on a constantly shifting aural background. The theme passes from piano to viola to woodwind, but never in its entirety, and always mocked by the orchestra with frigid sustained chords in the strings, or the virulent sound of an oompah band, or a sudden explosion of accordion.
"The effect is like watching a Federico Fellini movie set in a freak carnival, faces leering in and out of focus in the camera, the feral sound of a calliope and human screeches penetrating your ears. Colgrass deliberately creates an unstable listening experience... A delightful contemporary work."
Willa J. Conrad, Toledo Blade
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