Dear Friends,   You are cordially invited to a concert of The Locrian Chamber Players this Saturday, August 23 at 8PM in the 10th Floor Performance Space of Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York. The Program:   Charles Wuorinen: Duo Sonata (NY Premiere)   Charles Wuorinen: Josquiniana   Louis Andriessen: Miserere (U.S. Premiere)   Sebastian Currier: Night Time   Hayes Biggs: Sultry Air, Balmy Breezes (World Premiere)   The Players: Calvin Wiersma and Curtis Macomber, violin; Dan Z. Panner, viola; Greg Hesselink, cello; Erin Lesser, flute; Anna Reinersman, harp; Blair McMillen, piano.   A reception will follow the concert.  

Daniel Wakin at the NY Times reports on the passing of Norman Dello Joio at age 95. One of the first pieces of 20th Century choral music I sang was Dello Joio’s Jubilant Song. I still find the work, with its frequent time changes, syncopations, and pantonal harmonies to be an excellent exponent of the mid-century Americana style.  

BSO MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES LEVINE LEAVES TANGLEWOOD TO UNDERGO SURGERY     BSO Music Director James Levine regrets that he will have to withdraw from the balance of the 2008 Tanglewood season. Because of a cyst causing pressure and discomfort, Levine will undergo surgery this week to have a kidney removed. The procedure has been described by Levine’s doctors as curative, with no other treatment necessary and with every expectation for a complete recovery. The anticipated recuperation period is six weeks -leaving ample time to prepare and conduct the season openings of the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera in September.     “It is

Peabody faculty member David Smooke sent this along for your delectation: Summer’s just beginning and Hybrid Groove Project, the genre-bending new music duo from Baltimore, is already heating things up with their number one summer jam, “HGP Anthem.” In the grand tradition of the great hip-hop conflicts like Tupac v. Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre v. Eazy-E, and 50 Cent v. Kanye West, “HGP Anthem” brings some much needed antagonism to a new music genre more accustomed to passive aggressive behind-the-back battiness than brive-bys and street corner stompings. “By droppin’ this track we’re showing all these new music fakers who the

Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance Marc Ponthus, Founder/director   JUNE 10-17, 2008 www.mannes.edu/ifcp 212.580-0210 ext 4884   • MONDAY, JUNE 16 All-CARTER 7:30 conversation: the relationship between Carter & Speculum Musicae 8:00 – Music of Elliott Carter – program 2 Speculum Musicae Elizabeth Farnum, soprano Program to include “A Mirror On Which To Dwell’ (1975 – Speculum Musicae Commission), ‘Figment lll’ (2007 – Written for Speculum Musicae bassist Don Palma), ‘Oboe Quartet’(2001) and the ‘Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord (1952)   • TUESDAY, JUNE 17 Music by APERGHIS and CARTER; Performed by IFCP Institute participants.    

Anthony Braxton has released a nine-CD anthology of his piano music on Leo Records. Performed by Geneviève Foccroulle, the boxed set includes all of the prolific composer’s piano music written from 1968-2000. The set includes detailed liner notes by Stuart Broomer, featuring an interview with Braxton, and a separate booklet with the libretto and performing directions for his Composition 171, a lengthy work for pianist, actors, prompters, and “constructed environment.” Ranging from Braxton’s Composition 1, a modernist offering in the post-Webernian vein, to Composition171’s complex narrative and theatricality, this is an excellent overview of Braxton’s evolving aesthetic and questing character, presented