Complete list of reviews 1971

Nov. 25 —  AMM Music: Cornelius Cardew’s Improvising Quartet

Dec. 9 —  Steve Reich’s ‘Drumming’ at Museum of Modern Art

Dec. 16 —  Critics Choice Artists at Carnegie Recital Hall

Dec. 23 —  Group for Contemporary Music Presents Peter Maxwell Davies and Others

1972

Jan. 13 —  Christian Wolff’s ‘Burdocks’

Jan. 20 —  Organ Concert by William Albright; Piano Concert by Carles Santos and Philip Corner

Jan. 27 —  William Komaiko and Bruce Hobson on the Composer Forum

Feb. 3 —  Meredith Monk

Feb. 10 —  Lou Harrison’s ‘Young Caesar’

Feb. 17 —  Improvisation Concert with Frederic Rzewski, Jeffrey Levine, Garrett List, and Gordon Mumma; Oregon Concert

March 2 —  Stefan Wolpe Retrospective; Sonic Arts Union

March 9 —  Graphic Music at the Kitchen, Jim Fulkerson, Rhys Chatham, Brian Fennelly

March 16 —  Lukas Foss’s ‘Geod’ and Other Works on an ‘American Marathon’

March 23 —  Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, New and Newer Music, and Speculum Musicae

March 30 —  Alvin and Mary Lucier, and Stuart Marshall; William Hellermann

April 6 —  Philip Glass’s ‘Changing Parts’, ‘Music in 12 Parts’

April 13 —  Frederic Rzewski’s ‘Coming Together’ ; Petr Kotik’s ‘There Is Singularly Nothing’

April 20 —  George Crumb, Joel Thome, Gavin Bryars, George Brecht April 27 Ronald Roxbury and Marc Antonio Consoli on the Composers Forum

May 4 —  Quog Music Theater Group; Jim Burton

May 11 —  Composers Theater May Festival ‘Electronic Gala’

May 18 —  New Works by Carman Moore, Philip Corner, Michael Sahl, Kirk Nurock

May 25 —  Steel Cellos by Central Maine Power, and a ‘Gallery of Music in Our Time’

June 1 —  Charlie Morrow’s ‘Spirit Voices’ ; Gregory Reeve

June 8 —  Phill Niblock’s Tape Music

June 15 —  Pierre Ruiz; SEM Ensemble

June 22 —  Sonic Arts Union; Jim Burton

June 29 —  A Sonic Arts Union LP

July 6 —  Lucia Dlugoszewski; Charlotte Moorman

July 13 —  All-Cage Concert at the New School

July 27 —  An Imaginary Concert

Aug. 10 —  Bach and Mozart at Philharmonic Hall

Aug. 17 —  One-Note Music: Rhys Chatham

Aug. 24 —  Richard Peaslee’s ‘Of Love and War’ at the Lenox Arts Center

Sep. 7 —  Static Music: The New York Hypnotic School

Sep. 14 —  Sam Rivers and 30 Others in Central Park

Sep. 21 —  Calvin Hampton Organ Recital

Sep. 28 —  Yeh Yu Chinese Opera Association Presents ‘The Beautiful Bait in Three Kingdoms’

Oct. 5 —  Pandit Pran Nath; Marilyn Wood with Jon Gibson and Philip Corner

Oct. 12 —  After Dinner Opera: Five Operas with Gertrude Stein Texts

Oct. 19 —  Group Concert Opens the Season at the Kitchen; Al Carmines’ ‘Life of a Man’

Oct. 26 —  Jim Burton’s ‘Six Solos’

Nov. 2 —  Frederic Rzewski Recital

Nov. 9 —  The Western Wind Premieres Works by William Bolcom and Charlie Morrow

Nov. 16 —  Speculum Musicae and the Harlem Philharmonic Orchestra

Nov. 23 —  Philip Glass Concert; Thorn Music Fund Benefit Concert; Gil Trythall and Judith Scott at the Kitchen

Nov. 30 —  Joel Chadabe; Garrett List

Dec. 7 —  Christopher Tree; Michael Snow

Dec. 14 —  Victor Grauer

Dec. 21 —  Charles Dodge, Robert Helps, and Others

Dec. 28 —  ‘Elektrokaleidoscope’ by the Aeolian Chamber Players; Charlie Morrow and Richard Schechner at the Kitchen

1973

Jan. 4 —  Toward a Music For the Planet Earth

Jan. 11 —  David Borden; Sergio Cervetti

Jan. 18 —  Meredith Monk; Natural Sound Workshop; Alvin Curran; Brecht Operas and Songs at Brooklyn Academy

Jan. 25 —  The John Cage Retrospective; Composers Theater Concert; Laura Greenberg

Feb. 1 —  David Behrman and Katherine Morton; Charles Ives and Charles Morrow

Feb. 8 —  The Participation Project

Feb. 15 —  Roger Sessions Retrospective

Feb. 22 —  Morton Feldman and Others

March 1 —  Light Fantastic Players Perform Chou Wen-Chung and Others; Preston Trombly and David Saperstein on the Composers Forum

March 8 —  Phill Niblock’s ‘Ten 100-Inch Radii’

March 15 —  Alvin Lucier; Charlemagne Palestine

March 22 —  Da Capo Players; Jan Coward; Zaj; Pauline Oliveros

March 29 —  Eliane Radigue’s ‘Psi 847’

April 5 —  Post-Webern Trios; Roger Hannay’s Multi-Media

April 12 —  Terry Riley; Richard Trythall and Eric Richards on the Composers Forum

April 19 —  Edgard Varese Retrospective; Gregory Reeve

April 26 —  ‘Classics of Computer Music’ at the Kitchen

May 3 —  The Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall; Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ at Washington Square Methodist Church

May 10 —  Lukas Foss’s ‘Map’

May 17 —  Expressionistic String Quartets; Columbia/Princeton Electronic Studio Works; Composers Theater May Festival

May 24 —  Steve Reich; Emmanuel Ghent and Sergio Cervetti

May 31 —  Asian Music at the New and Newer Music Series; Brass Music at the Composers Theater

June 7 —  Three Days of the Sonic Arts Union; Rhys Chatham’s ‘Two Gongs’

June 14 —  Jerome Rothenberg and Charlie Morrow; Jesse Miller

June 21 —  Field Recordings From New Guinea; Meredith Monk; Yoshi Wada

June 28 —  Max Neuhaus’s ‘Sound Discoverable’

July 5 —  Roger Nelson; Philip Glass; Garrett List

July 12 —  Ilhan Mimaroglu’s Music for Dubuffet’s ‘Coucou Bazar’

July 26 —  A La Monte Young Diary: 1968-73; David Tudor’s Music for Merce Cunningham’s ‘Rainforest’

Aug. 16 —  Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music

Aug. 23 —  Street Musicians: Lloyd McNeill and Alan Gittler

Aug. 30 —  American Vocal Music Sung by The Singing Master’s Assistants; Soundings, a Music Magazine

Sep. 6 —  Music in Wall Street Churches

Sep. 13 —  Do-It-Yourself Records, Part One; Stephen Sondheim’s ‘A Little Night Music’

Sep. 20 —  Do-It-Yourself Records, Part Two; Open Letter to an Anonymous Young Singer

Sep. 27 —  Philip Corner and Carman Moore in the Summergarden of MOMA

Oct. 11 —  All-Night Indonesian Wayang at Wesleyan University

Oct. 18 —  Lighting ‘The Damnation of Faust’ ; Suzuki Violin Students

Oct. 25 —  Buddhist Chanting; Persian Folk Music; Peter Maxwell- Davies’ ‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’

Nov. 1 —  Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod; Marie-Françoise Bucquet

Nov. 8 —  Light Fantastic Players; Da Capo Chamber Players

Nov. 15 —  Annea Lockwood; Musica Elettronica Viva Improvisations

Nov. 22 —  An All-Lou Harrison Percussion Concert

Nov. 29 —  Contemporary Music Orchestra of Paris; Judith Alstadter Plays Faure

Dec. 6 —  A Cancelled Avant-Garde Festival; William Schimmel and Kirk Nurock

Dec. 13 —  The First Musical Event in the Kitchen’s New Broome Street Space: ‘Speech,’ ‘Bird-Cage,’ and Other Works by John Cage

Dec. 20 —  Jon Gibson’s ‘Visitations’ ; Charles Wuorinen’s ‘Grand Bamboula’

Dec. 27 —  Gunther Schuller

1974

Jan. 3 —  Happy New Year Article on the Increase in New Music Activity in New York

Jan. 10 —  Bach Cantata at Holy Trinity Church; Garrett List at St. John the Divine

Jan. 17 —  ‘Collage’ at the Composers Showcase; ‘Biome’ at the WBAI Free Music Store

Jan. 24 —  ‘Tibetan Jam’ at Washington Square Methodist; Yoshi Wada’s Pipe Horns at the Kitchen

Jan. 31 —  Charlemagne Palestine

Feb. 7 —  Dorian Quintet; Frederic Rzewski’s ‘Struggle’ ; Sahan Arzruni Plays Contemporary Chinese Music

Feb. 14 —  Ben Franklin’s String Quartet; Paul Demarinis’s ‘Pygmy Gamelan’ ; David Cope and Christopher Johnson Yavelow on the Composers Forum

Feb. 28 —  Quog Presents ‘Lazarus’ ; Ronald Roxbury’s Graphic Music

March 7 —  Aaron Copland Retrospective; Charles Ives Program; Joe Celli

March 14 —  Eliane Radigue; Philip Glass

March 21 —  Carla Bley; Carole Weber; New England Contemporary Ensemble

March 28 —  Composers Theater; ‘Notes From Underground’ ; Jon Deak

April 4 —  Annea Lockwood’s ‘River Archives’ ; Alan Sondheim and Kathy Acker

April 11 —  Robert Ashley’s ‘Your Move I Think’

April 18 —  Light Fantastic Players; Center of Creative and Performing Arts at Buffalo Presents Morton Feldman’s ‘For Frank O’Hara’ and Other Works

April 25 —  Liz Phillips; Suzanne Ciani; a Satie Retrospective; Pierre Ruiz; Phill Niblock’s String Quartet

May 2 —  Lukas Foss Presents Penderecki and Other Polish Composers

May 9 —  Jon Hassel’s ‘Solid State’ ; David Cope’s ‘Arena’

May 16 —  All-Schoenberg Concert

May 23 —  Max Neuhaus’s ‘Water Whistle’ ; Iain Hamilton’s ‘Voyage’

May 30 —  Philip Corner and Others at the Kitchen; New Wilderness Preservation Band

June 6 —  Christian Wolff’s ‘Exercises’

June 13 —  The Final Four-Hour Version of Philip Glass’s Music in 12 Parts

June 20 —  Emmanuel Ghent and Electronic Caricatures

July 11 —  On Prepared Concerts and Unprepared Concerts

July 25 —  A La Monte Young Diary: July 1973-April 1974

Aug. 1 —  A La Monte Young Diary: April 1974; Music at the American Dance Festival

Aug. 8 —  Anthony Newman

Aug. 15 —  Ideas vs. Sounds

Aug. 22 —  Brass Music in Washington Square Park

Aug. 29 —  Karl Richter; Johannes Somary

Sep. 5 —  Two Park Concerts

Sep. 12 —  Douglas Moore’s ‘Ballad of Baby Doe’

Sep. 19 —  Comic Operas by Bill Russo

Sep. 26 —  Scratch Music and Nature Study Notes

Oct. 10 —  John Watts

Oct. 17 —  Burton Beerman and John Selleck on the Composers Forum; Annea Lockwood’s ‘Tripping’

Oct. 24 —  Mauricio Kagel Performs Theater Pieces in Carnegie Recital Hall

Oct. 31 —  Male Soprano with Wings

Nov. 7 —  Ross Lee Finney and Others

Nov. 14 —  Richard Landry

Nov. 21 —  Avant-Garde Festival at Shea Stadium

Dec. 2 —  New York Premieres of Olivier Messiaen’s ‘La Fauvette des Jardins’ and ‘From the Canyons to the Stars’

Dec. 9 —  Philip Corner’s Bell

Dec. 16 —  Jay Clayton; Da Capo Chamber Players

Dec. 23 —  Jim Burton

Dec. 30 —  David Behrman

1975

Jan. 6 —  Alvin Curran

Jan. 13 —  Decentralization of the American Avant-Garde

Jan. 20 —  ‘Buxom Joan,’ a 1778 American Opera by Raynor Taylor

Jan. 27 —  Joan La Barbara

Feb. 3 —  John Cage’s ‘Atlas Australis’

Feb. 10 —  WBAI Free Music Store: Works by Kurt Schwitters, Lukas Foss, Harley Gaber, Pauline Oliveros

Feb. 17 —  Cornelius Cardew

Feb. 24 —  Robert Ashley Accompanies the Cunningham Company

March 3 —  Performers’ Committee Presents Ruth Crawford Seeger Retrospective

March 10 —  The Art of The Short Piece: Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Charlemagne Palestine, Steve Reich

March 24 —  SEM Ensemble Performs Morton Feldman’s ‘Instruments’

March 31 —  Charlie Morrow’s ‘The Number Six’

April 7 —  Toru Takemitsu

April 14 —  Spanish RTV Symphony Orchestra; Japanese Contemporary Music on the Meet the Moderns Series

April 21 —  Political Music: The Musician’s Action Collective

April 28 —  Jackson Mac Low

May 5 —  Laurie Spiegel; Suzanne Ciani

May 12 —  Dorothy Carter

May 19 —  Tangerine Dream; Soft Machine; Philip Glass

May 26 —  Jon Gibson

June 2 —  Richard Teitelbaum’s ‘Threshold’

June 9 —  Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’

June 16 —  Stuart Dempster Plays Didjeridu

June 23 —  Sun Ra

June 30 —  Cecil Taylor

July 21 —  ‘A Slick Scheme’ for Concert Promotion

Aug. 4 —  Michael Nyman’s Book: Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond

Aug. 18 —  Music for Cello and Piano

Aug. 25 —  Sound Poetry by A.F.C. and Henry Rasof

Sep. 8 —  Strange Bedfellows: Musicians and Dancers

Sep. 22 —  Marga Richter

Oct. 6 —  Gregg Smith Singers at Alice Tully Hall

Oct. 13 —  Five New York Old-Music Groups

Oct. 20 —  John Cage’s ‘Empty Words’

Oct. 27 —  Andrew Frank; Charles Amirkhanian; Charles Madden

Nov. 3 —  Religious Music: Donald Swann, Allaudin Mathieu

Nov. 10 —  Ursula Oppens; Frank Zappa’s Mothers Lack Invention

Nov. 17 —  Japanese Music: Ryohei Hirose, Ichiro Higo, Hikaru Hayashi, Michio Kitazume

Nov. 24 —  William Hellermann

Dec. 1 —  Moscow State Symphony

Dec. 8 —  Meyer Kupferman

Dec. 15 —  Maryanne Amacher

Dec. 22 —  The Center of the Creative and Performing Arts Presents Nora Post, Peter Joseph Salemi, Garrett List, Luc Ferrari

Dec. 29 —  Connie Beckley

1976

Jan. 5 —  The Years of Innovation Pass On: Part One

Jan. 12 —  The Years of Innovation Pass On: Part Two

Jan. 19 —  Arthur Weisberg and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

Jan. 26 —  A Rehearsal of ‘Einstein on the Beach’ ; The ‘Improvising’ of Annea Lockwood and Others

Feb. 2 —  J. Lesley Varner and Other Tubists

Feb. 9 —  How to Perform John Cage: Dennis Russell Davies and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Feb. 16 —  Tashi Plays Messiaen

Feb. 23 —  Kirk Nurock

March 1 —  Roy Harris, Samuel Barber, and Walter Piston

March 8 —  Ivan Tcherepnin

March 15 —  Charles Ives’s ‘Unanswered Question’

March 22 —  Phill Niblock and Others

March 29 —  American Indian Music

April 5 —  Lukas Foss

April 12 —  Milton Babbitt

April 19 —  Black Earth Percussion Ensemble; Music for Homemade Instruments

April 26 —  Flawed Presentations

May 3 —  Meredith Monk

May 10 —  Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’

May 17 —  Son of Lion Gamelan Ensemble

May 24 —  Philip Corner and Pauline Oliveros

May 31 —  Antonio Zepada; Jon Deak

June 7 —  Four Interpretations of Christian Wolff’s ‘Burdocks’

June 21 —  About ‘Serious’ Music

July 5 —  An ‘American Sampler’ Disc for the Bicentennial

July 19 —  Christian Wolff’s ‘Wobbly Music’

Aug. 2 —  Gavin Bryars’s ‘Jesus’ Blood’ and ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’

Aug. 16 —  Traditional Polkas

Sep. 6 —  The Small Town Band

Sep. 13 —  Sound Sculpture

Sep. 20 —  The Paul Winter Consort Plays Charles Ives

Sep. 27 —  William Walton is 75

Oct. 4 —  William Hellermann, Harley Gaber, Richard Kostelanetz

Oct. 11 —  John Cage’s ‘Renga with Apartment House 1776’ in Boston

Oct. 18 —  Judging Musical Quality

Oct. 25 —  Julius Eastman; Daniel Goode

Nov. 1 —  Pierre Boulez Conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony

Nov. 8 —  New Wilderness Concert: A Cross-Cultural Improvisation

Nov. 15 —  Meredith Monk; Waverly Consort; Peter Lewis; The Fires of London

Nov. 22 —  Frederic Rzewski’s ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated’

Nov. 29 —  Techniques of Film Scoring

Dec. 6 —  Max Neuhaus

Dec. 13 —  About ‘Great’ Music

Dec. 20 —  A Balkan Arts Center Concert

Dec. 27 —  Michael Galasso; Guy Klucevsek

1977

Jan. 3 —  Summary of New Music in 1976

Jan. 10 —  Virgil Thomson

Jan. 17 —  Peter Schickele

Jan. 24 —  David Tudor’s ‘Pulsers’

Jan. 31 —  Da Capo Chamber Players and Judith Raskin Present Miriam Gideon and Robert Helps

Feb. 7 —  Yoko Ono’s ‘Grapefruit’

Feb. 14 —  Georgy Ligeti

Feb. 21 —  Dennis Russell Davies Conducts the American Composers Orchestra: Yehudi Wyner, Lou Harrison, Wallingford Riegger, and Charles Dodge; New Music For Everyone: Scores for Amateur Musicians

Feb. 28 —  Laurie Anderson’s Jukebox

March 7 —  Alvin Curran; Ingram Marshall; David Mahler; Warren Burt

March 21 —  Arthur Weisberg Makes New Music Accessible

March 28 —  Takehisa Kosugi’s ‘Anima 7’ Performed by Yasunao Tone

April 4 —  Pierre Ruiz; Beth Anderson

April 11 —  Chopin Staged by Robert Guralnik; Chamber Music Staged by Martin Fried

April 18 —  Charlemagne Palestine

April 25 —  Robert Ashley’s ‘Music with Roots in the Aether’

May 2 —  David Reck’s Book Music of the Whole Earth; The Tudor Consort

May 9 —  Phill Niblock’s Loft: Malcolm Goldstein

May 16 —  Lukas Foss; Kirk Nurock; Philip Glass; Brazilian Carnaval Music; Miles Anderson

May 23 —  Gordon Mumma and Alvin Lucier

May 30 —  Joel Chadabe’s ‘Settings for Spirituals’

June 6 —  Talking Music: David Antin, Lucio Pozzi, Robert Ashley

June 13 —  What is Minimalism?

June 20 —  Maryanne Amacher; Skip La Plante and Carole Weber; Ed Friedman; Bob Sheff

June 27 —  Balkan Arts Center Folk Music Event

July 4 —  Dennis Russell Davies Conducts Colin McPhee, Samuel Barber, Alberto Ginastera, and Haydn

July 11 —  Bach in an ‘Open Sing’

July 25 —  Ralph Samuelson Plays Shakuhachi

Aug. 8 —  Recordings: John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Cowell, Jon Gibson, Reese Williams, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Yehudi Wyner, Christian Wolff, Jeanne Lee

Aug. 22 —  Another ‘Slick Scheme’ for Promoting New Music

Sep. 5 —  A Drum and Bugle Corps Contest

Sep. 19 —  The Grand Kabuki of Japan

Sep. 26 —  Tihuantinsuyo: Music from the Andes

Oct. 3 —  A Dragon Dance in Chinatown

Oct. 10 —  Pauline Oliveros

Oct. 17 —  Thea Musgrave’s ‘The Voice of Ariadne’

Oct. 24 —  Peter Gordon, Rhys Chatham, Alan Lloyd

Oct. 31 —  Martial Arts: Kendo as Music

Nov. 7 —  Theodor W. Adorno in English Translation

Nov. 14 —  Irish Folk Music: ‘The Lark in the Morning’

Nov. 21 —  Center of the Creative and Performing Arts Presents Robert Dick, Christian Wolff, Howard Skempton, John Cage, Jacob Druckman, John Newell, Giacinto Scelsi

Nov. 28 —  Jill Kroesen

Dec. 5 —  Seven Kinds of Minimalism

Dec. 12 —  Larry Miller; Ann-Sargent Wooster; Janet Sternberg; Bill Hogeland

Dec. 19 —  Away from Avant-Gardism

Dec. 26 —  Fusako Yoshida: The Koto in New York

1978

Jan. 2 —  Footnotes to 1977

Jan. 9 —  John Cage’s ‘Atlas Australis,’ ‘Branches,’ ‘Cheap Imitation,’ and ‘Inlets’

Jan. 16 —  Alison Knowles

Jan. 23 —  R. Murray Schafer’s Book The Tuning of the World

Jan. 30 —  Thunderbird American Indian dancers

Feb. 6 —  New Forums for New Music: Axis in Soho, Musical Elements, The Brook

Feb. 13 —  Performers of New Music: Neva Pilgrim, Paul Dunkel, Henry Schuman, Ted Hoyle

Feb. 20 —  The Plastic People from Prague; Talib Rasul Hakim (formerly Stephen Chambers)

Feb. 27 —  Zenska Pesna: Balkan Singers

March 6 —  Garrett List

March 13 —  William Hellermann’s ‘Tremble’

March 20 —  Alternative Center for International Art Presents Eastern and Middle-Eastern Music

March 27 —  Are You Suffering from NYCP? (New York City Provincialism)

April 3 —  A New CETA Orchestra

April 10 —  Jim Theobald

April 17 —  Patriotic Music: John Philip Sousa

April 24 —  George Mgrdichian Plays the Oud

May 1 —  John Cage, David Tudor, Roger Johnson, Jonathan D. Kramer, and Others

May 8 —  Chinese Music Ensemble of New York

May 15 —  Daniel Goode

May 22 —  Ustad Villayat Khan Plays Sitar

May 29 —  Ondeko-za: Japanese Ensemble

June 5 —  The Kitchen is Seven Years Old

June 12 —  Phill Niblock, Yoshi Wada, Jim Burton, and Others

June 19 —  Jo Kondo

June 26 —  Qamar Plays Mbira

July 3 —  Bob Becker Plays Percussion

July 10 —  The Perils of Neo-Primitivism

July 17 —  Conlon Nancarrow, David Behrman, and Others

July 24 —  Zoo Music I

July 31 —  Zoo Music II

Aug. 7 —  Zoo Music III

Aug. 14 —  Zoo Music IV

Sep. 4 —  New Forms for New Music

Sep. 11 —  Barbara Benary: A Modern American Wayang

Sep. 18 —  On Learning to Love All Music

Sep. 25 —  Nigel Rollings

Oct. 2 —  The Yale Russian Chorus

Oct. 9 —  A La Monte Young Diary: Oct. 1974-Sept. 1978

Oct. 16 —  Tonality in Reich, Rzewski, Eno, and Others

Oct. 23 —  Larry Austin

Oct. 30 —  Fresh Bread: On Amateur Music

Nov. 6 —  Guitarists Julian Bream and Jon Williams

Nov. 13 —  The Modern Traditional Nihon Ongaku Shudan

Nov. 20 —  Seven Choruses in Carnegie Hall

Nov. 27 —  Documentary Music: Gavin Bryars and Philip Corner

Dec. 4 —  Symphony Space: A New Concert Hall

Dec. 11 —  American Premier of Morton Feldman’s Opera ‘Neither’

Dec. 18 —  Paul Berliner

Dec. 25 —  American Composers Orchestra Plays Barney Childs, Charles Wuorinen, John Cage, Elliott Carter

1979

Jan. 1 —  James Tenney

Jan. 8 —  Gregory Sandow and Phill Niblock

Jan. 15 —  The Increasing Scarcity of Avant-Garde Music

Jan. 22 —  Music of a Pinball Machine

Jan. 29 —  Ivan Tcherepnin’s ‘Santur Opera’

Feb. 5 —  John Adams, Michael Nyman, Paul Dresher, and Others

Feb. 12 —  Lukas Foss’s ‘Orpheus’ and David Hykes’s ‘Hearing Solar Winds’

Feb. 19 —  The Heavenly Chimes Gamelan Ensemble

Feb. 26 —  Will Parsons and the Citizens Band

March 5 —  Nasser Rastegar-Nejad Plays Santur

March 12 —  The Other Superstars: Ravi, Fela, Om Kalsoum, Jali-Jali Music, and the Hui Brothers from Hong Kong; Six Seconds of Japanese Music

March 19 —  Richard Teitelbaum; George Lewis; William Hawley

March 26 —  Sang-Won Park Plays Kayagum

April 2 —  Andranik Aroustamian Plays Kamancheh

April 9 —  A Fluxus Retrospective Concert

April 16 —  A WKCR Fund-Raising Concert

April 23 —  Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi

April 30 —  Purna Das Sings the Baul Style from Bengal

May 7 —  A Balkan Arts Center Program

May 14 —  Jon Deak, Ben Johnston, Yoshi Wada, Philip Corner, Laurie Spiegel, Emmanuel Ghent

May 21 —  Tamia

May 28 —  Pericles Halkias Plays Greek Clarinet

June 4 —  Petr Kotik’s ‘Many Many Women’

June 11 —  Preview of the First New Music America Festival

June 18 —  Klezmer Clarinet: Dave Tarras and Andy Statman

July 2 —  New Music America Festival

July 9 —  Griot Singers

July 23 —  The Decline of Western Music: Toward Internationalism

Aug. 6 —  Great Music as ‘Tragic Exuberance’

Aug. 20 —  John Cage and Other Modern Dance Accompanists

Sep. 3 —  Frederic Rzewski

Sep. 17 —  Native American Powwows

Sep. 24 —  The Contradictions and The Static

Oct. 1 —  Pandit Pran Nath

Oct. 8 —  Rationality in Art

Oct. 15 —  New LPs: Stuart Dempster, Gordon Mumma, and Others

Nov. 5 —  A Visit to IRCAM

Nov. 19 —  Guitar Meets Sitar: Jody Stecher and Krishna Bhatt

Dec. 3 —  Three Exhibitions of Graphic Music

Dec. 17 —  Meredith Monk; Maryanne Amacher; Phil Glass; The American Composers Orchestra

1980

Jan. 14 —  Robert Rutman

Jan. 21 —  A New Zealand Recording: ‘From Scratch’

Feb. 4 —  Young European Composers; Frederic Rzewski’s ‘Thirteen Studies’

Feb. 18 —  Carles Santos

March 3 —  Harry Bertoia

March 17 —  Son of Lion Gamelan

March 31 —  ‘Aimless Major’ and Other Keys in works by Harold Budd, Phill Niblock, Julius Eastman, and Romulus Franceschini

April 14 —  Exoticism: About Imported Techniques

April 28 —  Classical Japanese Chamber Music

May 12 —  The Many Forums for New Music in New York

May 26 —  Giacinto Scelsi

June 9 —  International Sound Poetry Festival

June 23 —  Takehisa Kosugi; Pauline Oliveros

June 25-July —  1 New Music America Festival in Minneapolis

July 16-22 —  Plastic People’s ‘Passion Play’

July 30-Aug. —  5 On Freedom in Music

Aug. 13-19 —  Dorothy Carter: Folk Music Without Make Believe

Sep. 10-16 —  Recordings: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Virgil Thomson, Lubomyr Melnyk, and Others

Sep. 24-30 —  John Zorn; Tom Hamilton and J.D. Parran

Oct. 8-14 —  Sacred Music in Tibet, New Guinea, and Ecuador

Oct. 22-28 —  Getting Looped: Robert Moran and Others

Oct. 29-Nov. —  4 Irish Folk Music in New York

Nov. 5-11 —  Irish Folk Group De Danann

Nov. 19-25 —  Evan Parker’s Free Sax

Dec. 3-9 —  John Cage; Dick Higgins; Jackson MacLow; Tamia

Dec. 17-23 —  Balkan Arts Center Event

1981

Dec. 31-Jan. —  6 Stuart Dempster; Stephen Scott

Jan. 14-20 —  New York Ensemble for Early Music Presents ‘The Play of St. Nicholas’

Feb. 18-24 —  Arts Councils in Houston and Florida

Feb. 25-March —  3 Philip Glass: Maximalism on the Beach

March 11-17 —  Glen Velez

March 25-31 —  Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos, and Sten Hanson in a Boxing Ring

April 22-28 —  Michiko Hirayama Interprets Giacinto Scelsi

May 6-12 —  Urban Sax in Paris

May 20-26 —  Latin Musicians at Soundscape: Andy Gonzalez and Others

June 3-9 —  New Vocal Music: Mikki Shiff, Charles Dodge, and Others

June 17-23 —  Half-Heard Music

July 1-7 —  Exhibition of Japanese Music Notation

July 15-21 —  Recordings: Loren Rush, Larry Austin, John Cage

July 22-28 —  A Critical Anthology: ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier’

July 29-Aug. —  4 Australian Aborigines in Central Park

Aug. 5-11 —  Carillon Recital at Riverside Church

Aug. 12-18 —  World Music at Bear Mountain

Sep. 9-15 —  An Amateur Talent Night

Oct. 7-13 —  Meditation Music/Spiritual Music

Oct. 28-Nov. —  3 Young French Musicians: ‘Diese 440’

Nov. 18-24 —  Twenty Paris Composers Produce a Collaborative Christmas Disc

Nov. 25-Dec. —  1 Groupe de Recherches Musicales

Dec. 9-15 —  Metz Festival

Dec. 23-29 —  Iannis Xenakis and CEMAMU

1982

Jan. 6-12 —  Claude Ballif’s ‘Un Coup de des’

Jan. 20-26 —  Zygmunt Krauze and Thomas Sikorski

Feb. 3-9 —  Mesias Maiguashca

Feb. 23 —  Xavier Rodet’s CHANT Program

March 9 —  Steve Lacy

March 23 —  Zoltan Jeney and Other Hungarian Composers

April 6 —  Itineraire Presents Peter Eotvos and Hughes Dufourt

April 27 —  Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carriere’s ‘Carmen’

May 4 —  Pierre Marietan, Eliane Radigue, Horacio Vaggione

May 18 —  Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981)

June 1 —  Collaboration: Barbara Benary, Philip Corner, Daniel Goode, and Peter Griggs

June 15 —  European Orchestration vs. American

June 29 —  The Trickle-Down Theory and the Filter-Up Theory

July 13 —  An Upstate Story: Carleton Clay and Classical Music in the Catskills

July 27 —  The Original Minimalists: La Monte Young and 30 Others

Aug. 10 —  Recordings: Dary John Mizelle, Phil Minton, Joel Chadabe, and David Tudor

Aug. 24 —  World Music at Bear Mountain

Sep. 7 —  Rah Rah America: Nationalism in Music

Sep. 21 —  More on American Music

Oct. 5 —  Jackson Mac Low is 60

Oct. 19 —  Northeast Dulcimer Symposium in Woodstock

Oct. 26 —  Rip Keller Performs John Cage’s ‘Sonatas and Interludes’

Nov. 16 —  Conlon Nancarrow is 70

Nov. 30 —  The Minnesota Composers Forum

Dec. 14 —  Hans Otte’s ‘Das Buch der Klange’

Dec. 28 —  Luc Ferrari

1983

Jan. 11 —  European Points of View

Aug. 20 —  A Farewell Article