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0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:22 I: The Serial Question
0:08:34 II: Time Points and Fractals
0:16:35 III: The Group for Contemporary Music
0:23:35 IV: The Columbia Fiasco
0:40:05 V: Conservative, or Revolutionary?
0:53:01 VI: The End of the Group
0:59:35 VII: High Culture
1:06:12 VIII: The Legacy
📚 Sources/further reading:
“Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Bibliography” by Richard D. Burbank (Greenwood Press, 1994)
“Simple Composition” by Charles Wuorinen (C.F. Peters, 1979)
“Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers” by Cole Gagne and Tracy Caras (Scarecrow Press, 1982)
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“The Piano Sonatas of Charles Wuorinen: An Evolution of Style” by Joseph C. Schiavo (PhD dissertation, Rutgers, 2006)
“Notes on the Performance of Contemporary Music” by Charles Wuorinen — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn–Winter, 1964), pp. 10-21
“The Group for Contemporary Music, 1962 to 1992” by Susan Elizabeth Deaver (DMA dissertation, MSM, 1993): [ Ссылка ]
“The Recent Music of Charles Wuorinen” by Jeffrey Kresky — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, 25th Anniversary Issue (Winter–Summer, 1987), pp. 410-417
“Charles Wuorinen's Third Piano Sonata: A Performer's Perspective” by Alan Feinberg — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 55-66
"A Conversation with Charles Wuorinen" by James Romig: [ Ссылка ]
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Music (all by Charles Wuorinen):
- New York Notes for Pierrot Ensemble, performed by Will Adams, Alex Dergal, Will Crock, an unknown cellist, Louis Pino, and Amanda Lubin
- Music for Orchestra, performers unknown (possibly the Columbia University Orchestra)
- Janissary Music, performed by Brandon Lim
- The Blue Bamboula, performed by Alan Feinberg
- String Trio, performers unknown (possibly Rolf Schulte, John Graham, and Fred Sherry)
- Percussion Symphony, performed by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble conducted by Peter Jarvis
- Time’s Encomium
- Iridule, performed by Andrew Blanke and Ensemble id conducted by Edo Frenkel
- Piano Sonata No. 3, performed by Alan Feinberg
- Brokeback Mountain, performed by the chorus and orchestra of the Teatro Real de Madrid
- Genesis, performed by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Chorale conducted by Edo deWaart
- Microsymphony, performers unknown (possibly the Philadelphia Orchestra)
- Xenolith, performed by Lois Martin and Michael Truesdell
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