Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
October concert buzz
I just wanted to share this really nice comment from our friend who runs radio molecule, which is a great Internet-based radio station of new music. She was responding to our October 18 season debut concert.
I'm amazed at the amount of work SFNM has projected for this year!! It's heart warming for me to see that your intention is to offer Santa Fe incredibly interesting, intelligent, dynamic and cutting edge events! To me you guys are "it" at the moment and I hope that Santa Fe can wake up and see the immense value of what you're doing... The cool venues that you use in town connecting you to the different artistic communities, I'm sure, will generate the energy that you want. Congratulations on the new season! I'm looking forward to all the events. You guys are a great asset to Santa Fe and my cultural Santa Fe loves. wish you all the best!
Thank you, we are glad to be doing what we do!
I'm amazed at the amount of work SFNM has projected for this year!! It's heart warming for me to see that your intention is to offer Santa Fe incredibly interesting, intelligent, dynamic and cutting edge events! To me you guys are "it" at the moment and I hope that Santa Fe can wake up and see the immense value of what you're doing... The cool venues that you use in town connecting you to the different artistic communities, I'm sure, will generate the energy that you want. Congratulations on the new season! I'm looking forward to all the events. You guys are a great asset to Santa Fe and my cultural Santa Fe loves. wish you all the best!
Thank you, we are glad to be doing what we do!
Monday, October 13, 2008
2008-2009 Reading List
As promised, here is Santa Fe New Music's 2008-2009 season reading list! You can add comments and suggestions by hitting the "comments" button at the bottom of this post. Enjoy the Music&Word focus!
FALL 2008 SANTA FE NEW MUSIC “MUSIC&WORD” READING LIST
FOR THE SEASON:
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
This acclaimed, readable narrative of 20th Century music serves as a backbone for appreciating the development of today’s new music, and is the subject of SFNM Artistic Director John Kennedy’s fall lecture series “Beyond the Noise”, presented in conjunction with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
OCTOBER 18 CONCERT:
Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture 1973-80, by Peter Garland (Soundings Press, 1982)
A beautiful and eloquent consideration of experimental American composers by a featured composer on our October concert. Garland reveals a visionary view of cultural transformations and the emergence of a “post-classical” aesthetic.
Out of print – but available through public libraries – or call us to borrow!
NOVEMBER 2 CONCERT:
Many resources are available to explore the mythic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the works of literature and art inspired by the story. Do your own Googling, or start here:
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus
Eurydice
NOVEMBER 16 CONCERT:
The Walk by William deBuys (Trinity University Press, 2007)
New Mexico author William deBuys composed the introductory essay for Marthanne Verbit’s new CD “Endangered”, which is the featured music on this concert paying heed to the perils facing the environment. The Walk is deBuys’ most recent book, with meditations addressing both personal and environmental issues, and with great sensitivity to being close to the earth here in New Mexico. The Walk has been said to “describe hope in terms of mountain and sky, river and pine, mindfulness and love”.
DECEMBER 11 CONCERT:
Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Available in several different editions, but we recommend: Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music, Dover, 1962).
A literary accompaniment to the Concord Sonata performed on this concert, Ives preferred the audience to read the text first. With passages on Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, this is Ives’ most mature analysis of his aesthetic.
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, ed. Odell Shepard (Dover, 1961)
A wonderful compendium of many of the best moments in Henry David Thoreau’s journals, the subject of text for the John Cage work on the concert, Lecture on the Weather.
Lecture on the Weather, by John Cage. (CF Peters Music, copyright material). These texts by Cage and Thoreau are performed during the work, but are simultaneously mixed and sometimes hard to follow. Email sfnm for a copyright release form and we can provide you with an authorized copy.
FALL 2008 SANTA FE NEW MUSIC “MUSIC&WORD” READING LIST
FOR THE SEASON:
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
This acclaimed, readable narrative of 20th Century music serves as a backbone for appreciating the development of today’s new music, and is the subject of SFNM Artistic Director John Kennedy’s fall lecture series “Beyond the Noise”, presented in conjunction with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
OCTOBER 18 CONCERT:
Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture 1973-80, by Peter Garland (Soundings Press, 1982)
A beautiful and eloquent consideration of experimental American composers by a featured composer on our October concert. Garland reveals a visionary view of cultural transformations and the emergence of a “post-classical” aesthetic.
Out of print – but available through public libraries – or call us to borrow!
NOVEMBER 2 CONCERT:
Many resources are available to explore the mythic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as the works of literature and art inspired by the story. Do your own Googling, or start here:
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus
Eurydice
NOVEMBER 16 CONCERT:
The Walk by William deBuys (Trinity University Press, 2007)
New Mexico author William deBuys composed the introductory essay for Marthanne Verbit’s new CD “Endangered”, which is the featured music on this concert paying heed to the perils facing the environment. The Walk is deBuys’ most recent book, with meditations addressing both personal and environmental issues, and with great sensitivity to being close to the earth here in New Mexico. The Walk has been said to “describe hope in terms of mountain and sky, river and pine, mindfulness and love”.
DECEMBER 11 CONCERT:
Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Available in several different editions, but we recommend: Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music, Dover, 1962).
A literary accompaniment to the Concord Sonata performed on this concert, Ives preferred the audience to read the text first. With passages on Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, this is Ives’ most mature analysis of his aesthetic.
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, ed. Odell Shepard (Dover, 1961)
A wonderful compendium of many of the best moments in Henry David Thoreau’s journals, the subject of text for the John Cage work on the concert, Lecture on the Weather.
Lecture on the Weather, by John Cage. (CF Peters Music, copyright material). These texts by Cage and Thoreau are performed during the work, but are simultaneously mixed and sometimes hard to follow. Email sfnm for a copyright release form and we can provide you with an authorized copy.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Take the Quiz!
This was our fun summer quiz, which we've removed from the website, since Summer is (sigh) gone.
But it's still a lot of fun to test your knowledge. Check it out!
But it's still a lot of fun to test your knowledge. Check it out!
New Facebook Page for SFNM
Just to let you all know we now have a mechanism for even more Facebook merriment.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Beyond the Noise, Session Six
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the sixth of the six-part series.
A New Millennium. The final session will discuss music of the past 10 years — looking at the perspective of both the digital renegade as well as the globalized corporate composer. Primary trends in the music of Thomas Ades, William Duckworth, Pascal Dusapin, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kaija Saariaho, Tan Dun, and others.
A New Millennium. The final session will discuss music of the past 10 years — looking at the perspective of both the digital renegade as well as the globalized corporate composer. Primary trends in the music of Thomas Ades, William Duckworth, Pascal Dusapin, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Kaija Saariaho, Tan Dun, and others.
Beyond the Noise, Session Five
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the fifth of the six-part series.
The Eighties and Nineties. This session discusses a different fin de siècle, with stylistic degeneration in a realm of exhausted ideas and dead ends – with attempts at new aesthetics playing out in a commodified marketplace of ideas. Primary trends in the music of John Adams, Glass and Reich, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Part, John Zorn, and others.
The Eighties and Nineties. This session discusses a different fin de siècle, with stylistic degeneration in a realm of exhausted ideas and dead ends – with attempts at new aesthetics playing out in a commodified marketplace of ideas. Primary trends in the music of John Adams, Glass and Reich, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Part, John Zorn, and others.
Beyond the Noise, Session Four
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the fourth of the six-part series.
The Sixties and Seventies. We will look at the high-water mark for stylistic pluralism, freewheeling experimentalism, and the collision of primitivism and high complexity. Primary currents in the music of George Crumb, Gyorgi Ligeti, Harry Partch, James Tenney, Iannis Xenakis – as well as in the birth of pulse-driven tonal minimalism.
The Sixties and Seventies. We will look at the high-water mark for stylistic pluralism, freewheeling experimentalism, and the collision of primitivism and high complexity. Primary currents in the music of George Crumb, Gyorgi Ligeti, Harry Partch, James Tenney, Iannis Xenakis – as well as in the birth of pulse-driven tonal minimalism.
Beyond the Noise, Session Three
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the third of the six-part series.
John Cage and the Post-War Aesthetic Revolution. This session will examine the work of John Cage and the “liberation of sound.” We will consider both the playful and theoretical aspects of Cage’s work and delve into his influence on European composers including the Darmstadt circle (Boulez, Stockhausen) as well as the New York and Pacific Rim Schools.
John Cage and the Post-War Aesthetic Revolution. This session will examine the work of John Cage and the “liberation of sound.” We will consider both the playful and theoretical aspects of Cage’s work and delve into his influence on European composers including the Darmstadt circle (Boulez, Stockhausen) as well as the New York and Pacific Rim Schools.
Beyond the Noise, Session Two
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the second of the six-part series.
The Rest is Noise, Part Two. A consideration of Part Two of The Rest is Noise: with a focus on the birth of a new avant-garde through American experimentalism – Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer, and Lou Harrison – and their effect on Europe.
The Rest is Noise, Part Two. A consideration of Part Two of The Rest is Noise: with a focus on the birth of a new avant-garde through American experimentalism – Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer, and Lou Harrison – and their effect on Europe.
Beyond the Noise, Session One
Open thread for discussion and questions related to the first of the six-part series.
The Rest is Noise, Part One. A consideration of Part One of The Rest is Noise: the primary aesthetic streams of early 20th Century music - Strauss, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky – and their legacy into the present.
The Rest is Noise, Part One. A consideration of Part One of The Rest is Noise: the primary aesthetic streams of early 20th Century music - Strauss, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky – and their legacy into the present.
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