source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 20:20:04 -0800 Subject: Re: Practice From: Johnny Reinhard I must agree with Neil that actually playing music to the appreciation of audiences is quite nutricious to one's musical well-being in composition. Roger Sessions wrote that music was at its greatest when composers play their own music and are the greatest listeners to what they both play and create. Any composer that spends even a little time performing and developing chops will achieve greater success in their compositions. (Both my intellect and my intuition concur, which I take to be a good enough sign to take a risk and make the statement.) Thank you all you delurkers, wherever you are. I hope you continue to gain sustenance from the combination tones of this list. I'll be in Toronto for the December 14th Critical Band concert at the Music Gallery. I will be performing my solo Dune for bassoon, Eye of Newt for alto recorder - both polymicrotonal - the majority of Li Po with Marc Sabat on his own adapted viola. Also schedule are 2 31ET pieces and some JI for ensembles by John Gzowski. Hope to meet some Torontoers like Paul Rapoport et al. Also, please check out the latest newsletter of the British Harry Partch Society. And see also their latest journal which has an alternative text to a major Partch work that is quite colorful...and which has the use of "chromo" as an abbreviation for chromelodeon." (Gotcha, Jon). Back to NYC on Dec. 16th. (Hope Brian and the "Wolf" don't blow down any houses.) (G) (g) (.) ( ) O o . Johnny Reinhard 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 Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 06:15 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20502; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 04:27:55 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA20526 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA17451; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:27:51 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:27:51 -0800 Message-Id: <199612040319.LAA02604@csnt1.cs.ust.hk> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu