source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:24:27 -0800 Subject: How to Program (fwd) From: Johnny Reinhard I took this off the double reed list as pertinent to the issue of programming. For AFMM concerts, programming is as important for me as composing an individual piece. As other concert forums open up to microtonal music there will be less need to have exclusive concerts for alternative tuning. For those that have never heard an AFMM concert, I understand it is difficult to imagine how it all fits together, but it does. Listeners modulate dimensionally by both tuning and style. AFMM concerts are experiential and not merely the some of their parts. :) 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@ios.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:06:04 -0600 From: SHARON TRENT To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: How to Program How to Select a Program is an interesting topic, and one I've never seen addressed. I asked the question on another list and got not one single response. I'll ask a few questions with the goal of continuing the thread. When selecting a program: 1. Do you avoid or try to find pieces of similar style, nationality, or school of composition? 2. Do you usually include an ensemble piece? 3. How frequently do you include an unaccompanied work? 4. Is it important to you to have works representative of each period? 5. How much consideration do you give to endurance when you select music? 6. How often do you present works that are new to you compared to works that you have played before? 7. How often do you perform music by live composers? The above is only the beginning... Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00655; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:01:17 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA00653 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA21070; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:01:14 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:01:14 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu