source file: mills2.txt Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 09:42:18 -0800 Subject: Re: Microtonal News from the AFMM From: Johnny Reinhard Happy Holidays to all from the AFMM. At this time we are all preparing for the 70-piece orchestra premiere performance of Charles Ives' Symphony #5 (Universe Symphony) with its polymicrotonality...and more. The first percussion rehearsal of 12 players took place at Skip La Plante's loft on Dec. 10th. They divide up the basic unit of the piece (B.U.) into 16 seconds into whole rational numbers up to 43). Bang On A Can is co-presenting the Ives premiere as part of their 10th anniversary series, doing advertising and publicity. On Christmas Day - from 11 am to 3 pm on WKCR-FM 89.9 FM is the 8th annual Microtonal Bach radio show. On Jan. 29th Ensemble 2e2m is presenting the European premiere of Edgard Varese's Graphs and Time with graphic notation demanding microtonal interpretation. The AFMM has presented it 3 times in NYC and I am travelling to Paris to conduct the Varese at the Pompideu Center. Like the Ives, I completed the work from sketches. 2 microtonalists in France to learn about are 2e2m's director Paul Mefano (who has championed the music of Ivan Wyschnegradsky with a wonderful new CD, as well the music of Alain Bancquart, and his own), and Gad Barnea (publisher of Musicales Europeenes and a microtonal composer just now stretching...to just from quartertones). 2 AFMM concerts previously scheduled for April 29 and May 6 in NYC have been postponed, allowing for the magnitude of the Ives performance on June 6, 1996 at Alice Tully Hall - Lincoln Center. (Jon Catler is playing overtone machine, Nina Kellman is alternating to Just Intonation harp). Mayumi has been scheduled for a concert of her music on April 15th using microtonal harpsichords by harpsichord builder Bobby Buecker (long associate of AFMM flutist Andrew Bolotowsky). And we have recroded in the studio Mayumi's Bassie and Knishtet. Compositionally, I have now completed a solo alto recorder work Eye of Newt, and a short work for contrabassoon solo: Klingon Raccoon. Both are polymicrotonal. New works will be under consideration for next year. All the very best to all of you "Betweeners." Johnny Reinhard Director American Festival of Microtonal Music 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW New York, New York 10021 USA (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 reinhard@styx.ios.com Received: from eartha.mills.edu [144.91.3.20] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 21:47 +0100 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA03505; Mon, 25 Dec 1995 12:47:37 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 12:47:37 -0800 Message-Id: <01HZ89LOZCYA9BVQOK@delphi.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu