Alexandra Liana La Nouvelle Musique Consonante

Liana Alexandra
Composer, Teacher
Roumania, Bucarest
About the artist
Liana Alexandra Composer Born: May 27, 1947, Bucharest, Romania Married to Serban Nichifor,
composer: http://www.free-scores.com/partitions_gratuites_serbannichifor.htm
Studies
1965-1971 - Ciprian Porumbescu University of Music, Bucharest, Composition Department. Awarded the
special scholarship George Enescu
1974, 1978, 1980, 1984 - international courses of composition at Darmstadt, West Germany
1983 - an USIA stipendium in USA
PhD in Musicology
AT PRESENT: Master in music; Professor at the National University of Music of Bucharest, (teaching
composition, orchestration and musical analyses), Member of Duo Intermedia and co-director of the NUOVA
MUSICA CONSONANTE-LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION INC.(U.S.A) Festival, with Serban Nichifor
Selected Works
Symphonic, vocal-symphonic and concert music, music for opera
Symphony I (1971)
Cantata for women's choir and orchestra (verses by Lucian Blaga, 1971
Valences, symphonic movement, 1973
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, 1974
Cantata II for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (verses by Lucian Blaga, 1977
Cantata III ,Country-land, country-idea for women's chorus and orchestra... (more online)
Qualification: PROFESSOR DOCTOR IN COMPOSITION AND MUSICOLOGY
Personal web: http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/AlexandraLiana.htm
Associate: GEMA - IPI code of the artist : I-000402252-8
About the piece
Title: THE NEW CONSONANT MUSIC [ROMANIA, 1990-2010]

Composer: Alexandra, Liana
Licence: Copyright © Liana Alexandra
Publisher: Alexandra, Liana
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LIANA ALEXANDRA
&
SERBAN NICHIFOR
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE
http://nuovamusicaconsonante.info/
Liana Alexandra-curriculum vitae.

Liana Alexandra
Composer
Born:May 27,1947,Bucharest,Romania
Studies:
1965-1971- „Ciprian Porumbescu“ University of Music, Bucharest,Composition
Department. Awarded the special scholarship „George Enescu“.
1974,1978,1980,1984 – international courses of composizion at Darmstadt,West
Germany
1983- an USIA stipendium in USA
PhD in Musicology
At present:
Master in music; Professor at the National University of Music from Bucharest
(teaching orchestration,musical analyses and composition).Member of the Union of
Romanian Composers,Member of GEMA(Germany),Member of „Frau und
Musik“(Germany),The First Vice-President of the Cultural Association Romania-
Israel(ACPRI),Member of the Research Board of Advisors(American Biographical
Institute,USA),Member of the Professional Women‘s Advisory
Board(USA),Member of the International Council Research(IBC,England),
Member of LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION Inc.(USA), Member of
ECPNM(European Conference of Promoters of New Music).
Compositions: she has composed several works (more than one hundred ),7
symphonies, 7 concertos for different instruments and orchestra, 3 operas, 4
cantatas, 1 oratorio, chamber music,choral music,music for children. Her
compositions were published at :Editura Muzicala (Bucharest),Edition Modern
(München),Edition Furore (Kassel), Score-on-Line (SUA). Its were played in
Romania,S.U.A.,Germany,Holland,France,Israel,Belgium,Poland,Austria,Sweden,
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Cehia,Australia,Spain England a.s.o. Liana Alexandra is also the author of the

books:“Musical creation – an ineffable measure between the fantasy and the
arithmetical and geometrical rigour“ and „Technics of Orchestrations“.
Prizes and Awards:

1975,1979,1980,1982,1984,1987,1988 – Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers
1979,1980 –Gaudeamus Prize (Holland)
1979 –First Prize „Carl Maria von Weber“, Dresden
1980 – Prize of Romanian Academy
1982,1983 –Diploma from „Who‘s Who in the World Dictionary“, USA
1986 –Prize of Beer-Sheva, Israel
1989 – Second Prize,Mannheim-Gedock, Germany
1991 – Third Prize „Fanny Mendelssohn“,Dortmund-Unna,Germany
1993 – ISCM Prize,Mexico
1995,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003-„Woman of the Year“,USA
1997,1998 – „Woman of the Year“, Great Britain
1997-Prize ACMEOR, Bucharest
1998 – Prize ACMEOR, Tel-Aviv,Israel
2000 – „International Commendation of Success“, USA
2001 –„International Personality of the Year 2001“,Great Britain
2001 –Researcher of the year 2001, USA
2003 –Prize Bourges (France)
2003- International Peace Prize (United Cultural Convention,USA)
Like pianist, Liana Alexandra founded in 1990 together with the composer and
cellist Serban Nichifor duo-ul „Intermedia-Nuova Consonante“,dedicated to
„promote the contemporary music.They have had concerts and recordings in
Romania,Italy,Belgium. Duo „Intermedia“ founded also the annual mini-festival
„NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE“(member of ECPNM). From 2003 „Nuova
Musica Consonante“ joined with „Living Music Foundation“ Inc. from U.S.A.
Press Reviews:
„Liana Alexandra has proved from many years,that her composition technique is
already well set. Helped by musicality and imagination,this technique allows the
composer to get the best results with any kind of musical
groups“.(Contemporanul,Bucharest)
„Liana Alexandra is regarded as the leading Romanian composer of her
generation. Her compositional vocabulary is wide,ranging from cluster and
aleatoric technique to broad lyric melody based on folk elements from her native
culture“(Grey Youtz,The Michigan University,USA)
„Liana Alexandra suepasses all her colleagues and annihilates the still alive
prejudice of sexes.“(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,Germany)
„Liana Alexandra has been excellent at „Gaudeamus“.This week, the utmost has
been reached indeed by the Romanian Liana Alexandra…Enormously rich
fancy,terrible piquant, a huge existence“(N.R.C. Handelsblad,Amsterdam,Holland)
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„Liana Alexandra‘s music is full of warmth and original melody elements,side by

side with a broad wonderful dramatic spirit. Her ineffable and imaginative
orchestration has been amazing“ (Arbetarbladet,Gevle,Sweden)
Liana Alexandra
SERBAN NICHIFOR (Composer)

Site: http://www.romania-on-line.net/whoswho/NichiforSerban.htm
Email: serbannichifor@yahoo.com
Address: Serban NICHIFOR, Str.Principatele Unite Nr.2,Vila I, Ap.7, Sector 4, RO-040165 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA,
Tel.(0040-1)336.13.99. and (0040-1)772.30.29
Born in Bucharest (Romania), 25.08.1954. Studies: National University of Music -
Bucharest, Doctor in Musicology; University of Bucharest (Theology Faculty).
Internationals courses at Darmstadt, Weimar, Breukelen and Munchen; USIA
Stipendium (USA). At present: Professor at the National University of Music -
Bucharest (Chamber Music Department);Member of UCMR (Romania), SABAM
(Belgium), ECPMN (Holland); Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM
Association; Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA and co-director of the NUOVA
MUSICA CONSONANTE-LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION(USA) Festival - with
Liana ALEXANDRA. Composition prizes at: Amsterdam, Tours, Athens, Urbana-
Illinois, Evian, Toledo, Trento, Roma, Bydgoszcz, Köln, Karlsruhe, Newtown-
Wales, Birmingham-Alabama. Comandor of the "Merit National Order" (2000).
Works published at: Editura Muzicala (Bucharest), Edition Modern (Munchen),
"Pro musica Studium"(Roma), "Quadrivium Music Press" (New York), "Mnemes"
(Palermo). Principal works: "Postludium" per Org. (1975); "Sorcova" per Coro
Misto a capella (1995);Quartetto per Archi I - "Anamorphose" (1976);
"Constellations" for Orchestra (1977); Symphony I "Shadows" (1980); Cantata
"Sources" (1977); "Carols" per Trombone e Percussione (1978); Cantata "Gloria
Heroum Holocausti" (1978); Opera "Miss Christina" (libretto by Mircea
ELIADE,1981); "Canto di Speranza" per Fl., Vn, Vn, Vlc. e Pf. (1981);
"Onirophonie" per Fl., Vn.e Pf. (1982);"Chanson d'Antan" per Vn.e Pf.(1983);
"Aprite le porte di questo castel" per Coro Maschile (1984); "Carnyx" per
Clarinetto (1984); "Tango for Yvar" per Pf.(1984); Quartetto per Archi II -
"Vallons de l'Oubli" (1984); Symphony II "Via Lucis" (1985); "6 Melodies
Irlandaises d'Amerique" per 2 Ob.,C.i. e 2 Fg. (1985); "Horn Call Rag" per Corno e
Pf. (1986); "Czarna Rosa" per Mezzo-Soprano e Pf. (1986); "7 Canti Rumeni di
Natale" per 4 Tbe, 4 Tni ed Org. (1986); Symphony III "American Symphony - I"
(1986); Symphony IV "American Symphony - II" (1987); Symphony V "Pro
Patria" (1987); "AVE MARIA" per Soprano ed Organo (1987); "Isola di
Euthanasios" per Pianoforte (1988); Symphony VI "Time Archways" (1988);
Cantata "Remember" (1988); "Transgressio" per Fl.,Ob. e Fg. (1989); "Battuta"
per Percussione (1989); "Missa da Requiem" (1990); Missa "Actio Gratiarum
Oecumenica" per Coro Misto (1991); "NATALIS DOMINI" per Coro Misto (1992);
"Isihia" per Vlc. (1992); "Epiphania" per Cello e Pianoforte (1993); "Musica
Caelestis" – treatise (1994); "Rorate Caeli" per Soprano ed Orchestra (1994);
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Chamber-Opera "Talaria" (libretto by Etienne DE SADELEER, 1994); "Medium

per Arpa" (1995); "Medium per Flauto" (1995); Cantata "Per CHRISTUM"
(1997); "Concerto GRIEGoriano" for Piano and Orchestra (1997); "3 Christmas
German Chorals" for Organ (1997); "Hommage a DEBUSSY" per 2 Pf. - ossia Pf. e
Nastro Magnetico (1998); "La Nuit Obscure" per Orchestra da Camera (1998);
Chamber-Opera "Le Martyre de Saint Claude DEBUSSY" (libretto after Claude
DEBUSSY and E.A.POE, 1999); "Turkish Bolero" for 4 Cellos and Orchestra
(2002), Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2003); "Introduction to
Computer Music" – handbook.
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE ANTHOLOGY

(1990-2003)
on mp3
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NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE - BUCHAREST
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC
Chopin Hall, 19-X-2000
HOLLAND
- 1.) TON DE LEEUW - Apparences for cello solo (14:34)

- 2.) LOUIS ANDRIESSEN - La Voce for cello solo (6:41)
- 3.) JAN VAN VLIJMEN - Tombeau for cello solo (19:07)
Serban Nichifor - cello
- 4.) ROB DU BOIS - Sketch for cello and piano (7:57)

- 5.) COR DE GROOT - En Ut for cello and piano (3:26)
Serban Nichifor - cello and Liana Alexandra - piano
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), BUMA
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Chopin Hall, 28-II-2000
JAPAN
- 1.) MAKOTO SHINOHARA - Evolution for cello solo (14:18)

- 2.) SATORU IKEDA - Sonata for cello solo (12:42)
- 3.) KEIKI OKASAKA - Komposition A for cello solo (13:25)
- 4.) REIKO MOROHASHI - Preghiera for cello solo (9:42)
- 5.) KAZU MUNAKATA - Llueve I for cello solo (10:50)
- 6.) JOJI YUASA - Interpenetration for 2 flutes (6:11)

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Adrian Buciu and Toma Dan - flutes
- 7.) YORI-AKI MATSUDAIRA - Co-Action I and II for cello and piano (10:55)
- 8.) MICHIO MAMIYA - Chiran Bushi and Ginzuru Bushi for cello and piano (5:33)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), JSCM
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GOETHE-INSTITUT BUCHAREST
2-XII-1992
GERMANY
- 1.) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Aria for cello and piano (6:17)
- 2.) PAUL HINDEMITH - Phantasiestück in B-Dur Op.8 Nr.2 for cello and piano (11:51)
- 3.) WOLFGANG RIHM - Grat for cello solo (6:03)
- 4.) HEINO BECKER - Spiel-Zeug Nr.18 for cello and piano (6:09)
- 5.) KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstück Nr.9 for piano solo (5:10)
- 6.) BERND A. ZIMMERMANN - Vier kurze Studien for cello solo (3:11)
- 7.) ANTON WEBERN - Sonate for cello and piano (2:08)
- 8.) ANTON WEBERN - Drei Stücke for cello and piano (2:03)
- 9.) SIEGRID ERNST - Sieben Miniaturen nach japanischen Haiku
for voice, cello and piano (12:05)
Serban Nichifor - cello, Liana Alexandra - piano
and Vladimir Popescu-Deveselu - voice
- 10.) URSULA GORSCH - Carjo Samlero - Drei Duette für zwei Flöten (4:20)
Nicolae Maxim and Constanta Badaluta - flutes
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), GEMA
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U.S.A. (I)
(AMERICAN CENTER - BUCHAREST, 14-X-1992)
- 1.) GEORGE GERSHWIN - Prelude for cello and piano (3:04)

- 2.) GEORGE CRUMB - Dream Images for piano solo (6:09)
- 3.) GEORGE CRUMB - Fantasia for cello solo (3:02)
- 4.) AARON RABUSHKA - Doina for cello and piano (4:12)
- 5.) SAMUEL BARBER - Sonata for cello and piano (excerpts) (3:00)
- 6.) DAVID KOBLITZ - Rigor Vitus for cello, trumpet and piano (1:45)
- 7.) STEPHEN MAYER - Tom Thumb for cello, trumpet and piano (2:51)
- 8.) CHARLES IVES - 2 Songs for cello, trumpet and piano (5:25)
- 9.) BRIAN FENNELLY - Tesserae II for cello solo (11:31)
and Ilie Voicu (trumpet)
ISRAEL
(UNMB, 21-IV-1996)
- 10.) PAUL BEN-HAIM - Canzona for cello and piano (7:31)

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- 11.) JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSCHY - 6 Israelian Dances for cello and piano (10:05)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), ASCAP
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(1995-2002)
BELGIUM (I)
- 1.) CESAR FRANCK - Panis Angelicus for cello and piano (3:04)
- 2.) EUGENE YSAYE - Grave for cello solo (5:08)
- 3.) JACQUES LEDUC - Trois Pièces for cello solo (10:34)
- 4.) JACQUES LEDUC - Elégie for cello and piano (5:39)
- 5.) ANDRE LAPORTE - C-isme for cello solo (5:11)
- 6.) ELIAS GISTELINCK - Song for Beatrice for cello and piano (7:04)
- 7.) RAOUL DE SMEY - Reflexie 1 for cello solo ((3:19)
- 8.) RAOUL DE SMET - Log boek 1 for cello solo (15:23)
- 9.) RAOUL DE SMET - Reminiscenties 3 for cello and piano (5:03)
- 10.) RAOUL DE SMET - Nocturne for cello and piano (9:10)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), SABAM
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(1995-2002)
BELGIUM (II)
- 1.) LUCIEN POSMAN - 22 for cello solo (5:48)

- 2.) WALTER HUS - Cadenza for cello solo (9:00)
- 3.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Naschrift for cello and piano (4:06)
- 4.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - In de buurt van Neptunus for cello and piano (9:08)
- 5.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Ex Cello de Coelo for cello and piano (11:34)
- 6.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (20:38)
Arad Symphony Orchestra,
Dorin Frandes - conductor
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U.S.A. (II)
UNMB (6-XII-1999), American Center (16-X-2001)

and Romanian Athenaeum (26-V-2002)
- 1.) CHARLES NORMAN MASON - The Artist and His Model

for cello and tape (9:39)
- 2.) DOROTHY HINDMAN - drowningXnumbers for cello solo (12:31:)
- 3.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Incantations III for cello and tape (12:10)
- 4.) DWIGHT WINENGER - Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes
for cello solo (8:27)
- 5.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Issyhia II for cello and tape (6:55)
- 6.) AARON RABUSHKA - Les Strophes d'Orphée for cello solo (10:08)
- 7.) RODNEY OAKES - Fantasy for cello and electronics (9:00)
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U.S.A. (III)
UNMB, 8-III-2003 (concert-tr.13-14); 22

and 29-III-2003 (recordings-tr.1-12)
- 1.) SAMUEL WARD (arr.L.A.) - America the Beautiful (2:54)

- 2.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Amazing Grace Echo (3:14)
- 3.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Welcome Rich (5:54)
- 4.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Good Morning, Sue (3:07)
- 5.) LUACINE CLARK FOX (arr.L.A.) -Love one Another (3:59)
- 6.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Four Mormon Songs (3:06)
- 7.) JOHN J. MCCLELLAN (arr.L.A.) - Sweet in the Work (3:15)
- 8.) MORMON FOLKLORE (arr.S.N.) - The Spirit of God (2:35)
- 9.) LAURENCE LAYON (arr.L.A.) - Create an Atmosphere (1:51)
- 10.) GWEN M. CUNDICK (arr.L.A.) - A Family is Forever (2:30)
- 11.) T. CASTETON (arr.S.N.) - Perfect Love (3:46)
- 12.) CHERIE CALL (arr.S.N.) - Promises I Keep (3:28)
- 13.) S. PETERS (arr.S.N.) - Fearless Heart (with voices) (4:04)
- 14.) CHERIE CALL (arr.S.N.) - Promises I Keep (with voices) (4:03)
Susan McClellan - flute, Liana Alexandra - piano,Serban Nichifor - cello (1-12),
T. J. Love - soprano, Mary Lubic - mezzo-soprano (13-14)
(c) by DESERET BOOK (USA), NMC-LMF (USA), ASCAP
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(1992-2002)
FRANCE
- 1.) CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Sonate for cello and piano (p.I-II) (8:17)
- 2.) FRANCOIS BOUSCH - Trois Miniatures for cello solo (6:27)
- 3.) MAURICE RAVEL - Habanera for cello and piano (2:54)
VARIA
- 4.) GASPAR CASSADO - Sonata for cello solo (12:10)

- 5.) ANTANAS KUCINKAS - A la Maria for cello and piano (3:09)
- 6.) PIOTR LACHERT - Te ne ricordi ? for cello solo (10:29)
- 7.) MAREK KOPELENT - Karrak for cello and piano (7:41)
- 8.) HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS - Piece for cello and piano (3:08)
- 9.) PIOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY - Pezzo Capriccioso for cello and piano (6:07)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), SACEM, SABAM, UCMR-ADA
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(BUCHAREST, GENT, ANTWERPEN - 1999-2000)
ROMANIA (I)
- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Fantasia for cello and piano (12:43)

- 2.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Five Sequences for cello and piano (7:55)
- 3.) ADRIAN POP - Cadenza for cello solo (5:30)
- 4.) ADRIAN MOCIULSCHI - Anamnesis for cello and piano (2:58)
- 5.) NICOLAE COMAN - Monodia for cello solo (5:06)
- 6.) NICOLAE COMAN - Canto for cello and piano (2:14)
- 7.) CORNELIU DAN GEORGESCU - Gemini for piano solo (4:12)
- 8.) DORU POPOVICI - In Memoriam Tristan Tzara for cello and piano (7:07)
- 9.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Conceptofonia for cello and piano (9:42)
- 10.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Epifania for cello and piano (10:43)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), UCMR-ADA
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(BUCHAREST, CLUJ, PESCARA, ANTWERPEN - 1996-2002)
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ROMANIA (II)
- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Chant d'amour de la dame à la licorne

for soprano, cello and piano (24:23)
- 2.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - The Voice for bass, cello and piano (11:24)
- 3.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Oration for soprano,cello and piano(6:16)
- 4.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Invocatio for cello and piano (5:51)
- 5.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Amazing Grace Echo
for cello and piano (3:16)
- 6.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Melody for cello and piano (3:04)
- 7.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Jerusalaim Shel Zahav
- 8.) LIANA ALEXANDRA-SERBAN NICHIFOR - Improvisation
on Byzantine Themes for cello and piano (3:10)
Georgeta Stoleriu - soprano, Pompei Harasteanu - bass,
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Johann Sebastian BACH:
„DIE KUNST DER

FUGE" / „THE ART OF
FUGUE"
– the new version for guitars ensemble
at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest (Romania)
on 29 April 2007.
Wikipedia („The Art Of The Fugue"):
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"Dr. Serban Nichifor: "The Art of

Fugue" version for 2 guitar quartets;
performers:
Calin Grigoriu,
Gabriel Brosteanu,
Radu Miculita,
Hanelore Mocanu,
Radu Corbos,
Andra Stanciu,
Zsolt Bara
and Tudor Niculescu-Mizil;
National University of Music Bucharest (Romania),
23.04.2007"
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Prof.Dr. Serban NICHIFOR, National University of Music Bucharest (Romania) -

Candidate for the Election of the Chairman - EUROPEAN CHAMBER MUSIC
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (ECMTA)
Serban Nichifor Composer and Cellist
Born: August 25, 1954, in Bucharest (Romania); Mother: Dr. Livia Nichifor,
physician; Father: Dr. Ermil Nichifor, physician, founder and conductor (1954-1997)
of the “Bucharest Physicians` Orchestra”; Married to Liana Alexandra, composer
Studies National University of Music, Bucharest, Doctor in Musicology Theology
Faculty, University of Bucharest
International courses of composition at Darmstadt, Weimar, Breukelen and Munchen
USIA Stipendium (USA)
Present Position Professor at the National University of Music, Bucharest (Chamber
Music Department);
Member of UCMR (Romania), SABAM (Belgium), ECPMN (Holland)
Vice-president of the ROMANIA-BELGIUM Association
Cellist of the Duo INTERMEDIA <../general/duointermedia.htm> and co-director of
the NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE-LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION INC.
(U.S.A) Festival, with Liana ALEXANDRA
Selected Works OPERA, SYMPHONIC, VOCAL-SYMPHONIC AND

CONCERTANTE MUSIC:
"Constellations" for Orchestra (1977)
Symphony I "Shadows" (1980)
Cantata "Sources" (1977)
Cantata "Gloria Heroum Holocausti" (1978)
Opera "Miss Christina" (libretto by Mircea ELIADE,1981)
Symphony II "Via Lucis" (1985)
Symphony III "American Symphony - I" (1986)
Symphony IV "American Symphony - II" (1987)
Symphony V "Pro Patria" (1987)
Symphony VI "Time Archways" (1988)
Cantata "Remember" (1988)
"Missa da Requiem" (1990)
Chamber-Opera "Talaria" (libretto by Etienne DE SADELEER, 1994)
Cantata "Per CHRISTUM" (1997)
"Concerto GRIEGoriano" for Piano and Orchestra (1997)
Chamber-Opera "Le Martyre de Saint Claude DEBUSSY" (libretto after Claude
DEBUSSY and E.A.POE, 1999)
"Un Certain Instant" for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
CHAMBER, CHORAL AND VOCAL MUSIC
"Postludium" per Organo (1975)
"Sorcova" per Coro Misto a capella (1995)
Quartetto per Archi I - "Anamorphose" (1976)
"Carols" per Trombone e Percussione (1978)
"Invocatio" per Flauto e Celesta (1979)
"Canto di Speranza" per Flauto,Violino,Viola,Cello e Pianoforte (1981)
"Onirophonie" per Fl., Vn.e Pf. (1982)
"Chanson d'Antan" per Vn.e Pf.(1983)
"Carnyx" per Clarinetto (1984)
"Tango for Yvar" per Pf.(1984)
Quartetto per Archi II - "Vallons de l'Oubli" (1984)
"Aprite le porte di questo castel" per Coro Maschile (1984)
"Morendo" per Cb. e Pianoforte (1985)
"6 Melodies Irlandaises d'Amerique" per 2 Ob.,C.i. e 2 Fg. (1985)
"Czarna Rosa" per Mezzo-Soprano e Pf. (1986)
"7 Canti Rumeni di Natale" per 4 Trombe, 4 Tromboni ed Organo (1986)
"Horn Call Rag" per Corno e Pf. (1986)
"AVE MARIA" per Soprano ed Organo (1987)
"Isola di Euthanasios" - Sonata "sopra acqua e pietra" per Pianoforte (1988)
"Transgressio" per Fl.,Ob. e Fg. (1989) "Battuta" per Percussione (1989)
"Lacrimosa" per Tenore e Pf. (1989)
"Meditatio"per Organo (1990)
Missa "Actio Gratiarum Oecumenica" per Coro Misto a capella (1991)
"NATALIS DOMINI" per Coro Misto a capella (1992)
"Isihia" per Cello (1992)
"Epiphania" per Cello e Pianoforte (1993)
"Rorate Caeli" per Soprano ed Orchestra da Camera (1994)
"Medium per Arpa" (1995)
"Medium per Flauto" (1995)
"3 Christmas German Chorals" for Organ (1997)
"Hommage a DEBUSSY" per 2 Pf. - ossia Pf. e Nastro Magnetico (1998)

"La Nuit Obscure" per Orchestra da Camera (1998)
"Invocation a Themis" per Sax.Alto (2001)
"Isihia" for violoncello and tape (2002)
Works published at Musical Publishing House, Bucharest Edition Modern, Munchen
"Pro musica Studium", Roma
"Quadrivium Music Press", New York
"Dohr Verlag", Koln a.s.o.
Edition SCORE-ON-LINE (France) Works played and recorded in Romania,
Belgium, Holland, USA, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, England, Austria,
Japan, Greece, a.s.o.
Affiliations
Member in good standing of the Research Board of Advisors of the American
Biographical Institute, USA
Member of the European Conference for Promoters of New Music (see Nuova
Musica Consonante)
Member of Living Music Foundation Inc., USA
www.dwightwinenger.net/lmfhome.htm
Prizes and Awards
1977 - First Prize GAUDEAMUS, Amsterdam
1977 - International Prize, Tours, France
1978 - "Press Prize", Evian
1979 - International Prize ISCM, Athens, Greece
1980, 1982, 1988 - Prizes of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists' Union
1980 - "Diego ORTIZ", Toledo
1982 - "George Enesco" Prize of the Romanian Academy
1983 - Urbana-Illinois
1984, 1993 - Trento
1985 - "Valentino BUCCHI", Roma
1986 - "Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis", Bydgoszcz
1988 - ISCM, Hong-Kong
1994 - Jihlava
1996 - Karlsruhe
1997 - Koln
1998 - Newtown-Wales
1998 - Birmingham-Alabama
1998 - Bourges
2002 - "Man of the Year", American Biographical Institute, USA
PRESS REVIEWS
SUNDAY TIMES (London, 18.08.1977) - "The First Prize went to a 22-year-old
Romanian Serban NICHIFOR, for his , played by the Gaudeamus String Quartet in
the smaller hall of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Its virtually silent beginning,
seemingly addressed to the eye rather than the ear, already hinted at a spatial element
which later furnished a valid and charming feature of its ending. The visual gradually
became audible, and the mosaic of sound soon acquired continuity as a few folk-tune
motifs were set in relief. This innocuous, inextravagant, musically and visually direct
essay in quartet-writing deserved recognition and won an ovation !" (Felix
APRAHAMIAN)
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (09.06.1978) - "Die Presse-Jury
bedachte das rumanische Quartet mit einem Preis fur die ausgezeichnete
Interpretation der attraktiven des jungen Komponisten Serban NICHIFOR" (Bernd
LEUKERT)
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (27/28.05.1978) - "...Sein betiteltes Stuck exerziert die
verschidensten technischen Affekte und Effekte auf den vier Instrumenten und
zerfasert den Streicherklang schliesslich auf augenfallige Weise..." (Albrecht
ROESELER)
DIE PRESSE (Wien,26.05.1978) - "...die originelle von Serban NICHIFOR..." (Olga
OBRY)
LA VOIX (11.05.1978) - "...le Quatuor du Roumain Serban NICHIFOR,oeuvre d'une
redoutable complexite, mais d'une indeniable valeur..." (Georges BERNAND)
NRC HANDELSBLAD (Amsterdam,13.09.1977) - "...Serban NICHIFOR,in sijn
strijkwartet - een brok onstuimig muziek maken - integreert hij vijf Roemeense
melodieen uit Transsylvanie en past hij als een soort van harmonische basis evenees
vijf Roemeens-orthodoxe hymnes toe. Let wel: hij doet dat in een uit gespreken
avant-gardistisch klanggemiddelde ! Resultaat hat grootste applaus en de eerste prijde
van den jury." (Ernst VERMEULEN)
DARMSTADTER ECHO (04.08.1980) - "Das absolute Gegenteil dazu wurde in der
Streichquartett- Komposition des Rumanen Serban NICHIFOR geboten. Komplexe
polyphone Schichtungen, vorwiegend mit wisperndern Spiel am Steg und
scharrenden Flageolett-Tone aufgebaut, zeugten von einer ausgesprochen raffinierten
Schreibweise..." (Jo TRILLIG)
MUSICULTURA (Breukelen, II-1980) - "...NICHIFOR's final example was a 1980
cantata . The work deals with the peoples who lived in Romania in the most ancient
times. In this energetic composition one can find a montage of folk materials and
contemporary idioms..." (William P. MALM)
LIVING MUSIC (USA, Fall '93, Vol.11, No.1) - "...NICHIFOR has been active as a
composer, performer, and musicologist. He has won numerous awards and is
performed frequently in his own country and abroad. During the past years he has
been especially active in Bucharest organizing concerts of music by Amarican
composers. NICHIFOR did visit the United States in 1982, so he has a good sense of
musical life in this country." (Rodney OAKES)
THE WHITE HOUSE - WASHINGTON D.C. (01.10.1992) - "Dear Mr. NICHIFOR,
thank you for the beautiful recordings of your Third and Fourth Symphonies, which I
recently received through the U.S.Information Agency. I appreciate your having
dedicated them and I am delighted to know that our cities have inspired you in this
uniquely creative way. The recordings have been donated to the Library Of Congress
so that they may be preserved for the people of the United States. Your thoughtful
gift will bring many hours of pleasure to all who come to enjoy them." George
BUSH, The President of the United States of America
RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG (Karlsruhe,31.10.1996) - "...Und mit der des
rumanischen Komponist Serban NICHIFOR wurde man dann doch noch
hineingefuhrt in die versunkene Welt der stillen Gebete, des Archaischen, der ruhig
brutenden Fauxbourdon-Klange, die zuweilen die innigen religioso-Harmonien eines
Cesar FRANCK herbeizitieren. Doch dann 4 noch gesprochene lateinische
Gebetformeln - da gab es alles, war die Glaubensseele begluckt. Dass davon
gleichwohl ein subtiler Reiz ausging, blieb unbestritten."(Rainer KOHL)
LE JOURNAL DE ST-GERMAIN (24.09.1999) - "...C'est pour honorer la memoire
de Claude DEBUSSY que le compositeur Serban NICHIFOR a compose en 1999 , ,
drame lyrique evoquant les dernieres annees du musicien. Il vient d'adresser au
Musee Claude DEBUSSY sa piece pour piano et bande magnetique. Dans cette
piece,on retrouvera tout l'univers debussyste: de la poesie enchanteresse,a l'appel du
lontain... Cet enregistrement vient enrichir le fonds du musee (en cours de
constitution) et devrait s'integrer au projet d'ecoutes musicales." (Jacques BERLIE)

LUXEMBURGER WORT (23.02.2000) - "...Finalement, c'est de Serban NICHIFOR
qui nous impressionna le plus. Concue comme un veritable ,l'oeuvre surprend par son
originalite et sa beaute intrinseque, mais aussi par la virtuosite qu'elle exige du soliste.
Pas de bavardage, pas de fioriture, rien que de la tres belle musique, fracassante
certes, mais tellement vraie !" (Pierre SCHWICKERATH)
LA LETTRE DU HAUTBOISTE (France, No 5/2000) - "...Dans les <6 Melodies
Irlandaises d'Amerique> de Serban NICHIFOR, les nantais, deja nombreux, s'etaient
associes aus messins. Cette musique franche et limpide, se pretait bien a un effectif
hors norme concu pour le plaisir de jouer tout ensemble." CORALITA (Trento,
Nr.6/1985) - "... di Serban NICHIFOR - vivace e scherzoso elaborazione, tessuto su
uno scheletro armonico in cui le tre strofe vengono variamente presentate... una
precipitosa si conclude in un buffo , che sfoncia nel (e ) dei due accordi finali."
KOLNER STADT-ANZEIGER (08.12.1997) - "...der Anhang umfasst 135
Kompositionen... Zweiter wurde Serban NICHIFOR aus Bukarest..." (Claudia
FREYTAG)
LIVING MUSIC (USA, Spring 2000, Vol.17, No.3) - "Serban NICHIFOR himself
turned in some splendid performances of our american cello music, and ensembles of
student performers who are sure to develop technical and professional polish with
experience filled the remaining concert-and-a-half with vibrantly enthusiastic
renditions of chamber works..." (Aaron J. RABUSHKA)
Address Serban NICHIFOR, Str.Principatele Unite Nr.2,Vila I, Ap.7, Sector 4, RO-
70512 BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, Tel.(0040- 1)336.13.99. and (0040-1)772.30.29,
E-mails: serbannichifor@gmail.com and serbannichifor@yahoo.com
Sites:
www.romania-on-line.
www.geocities.com/serbannichifor
http://serban-nichifor.omg-music.com/
www.geocities.com/novacons2001
www.mozart.co.uk/mzusers
From: Liana Alexandra

To: Dwight Winenger
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:52 PM
Dear Maestro Dwight Winenger,
It is our great pleasure to send you two of our recent presentations

with american and european contemporary music.We would be
very grateful to you if you would announce it on the LMF site.
Sincerely,
Liana and Serban
UNIVERSITATEA
NATIONALA DE MUZICA
BUCURESTI
Miercuri 1 Martie 2006, ora 15 Sala 54 (Computer Music)
NUOVA MUSICA
CONSONANTE
LIVING MUSIC
FOUNDATION (USA)
LIMBAJE MUZICALE
CONTEMPORANE
- Ipostaze ale Postmodernismului –
Pagini antologice din creatia lui
VLADIMIR COSMA
Noi inregistrari realizate de
Orchestre National de Lyon
si de
Paris Philarmonic Orchestra
Dirijor Vladimir Cosma
Solisti: soprana Wilhelmenia Fernandez,
violonistii Jean-Luc Ponty, Vadim Répine si
Bartek Niziol, chitaristul Philip Catherine,
naistul Simion Stanciu Syrinx,
percutionistul Peter Erskine
Prezinta Conf. univ. Dr. Serban Nichifor
UNIVERSITATEA
NAŢIONALĂ DE MUZICĂ
BUCUREŞTI
Sala „Chopin“, Luni 24 Octombrie 2005, ora 16
NUOVA MUSICA
CONSONANTE –
LIVING MUSIC
FOUNDATION (USA)
COMPUTER MUSIC
În program lucrări în primă audiţie de
BARRY
SCHRADER
(USA)
„First Spring“
„Beyond“
„Death“
Prezintă Conf. Dr. Şerban NICHIFOR
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:07:59
Dear Maestro WINENGER,
It is with pleasure we send You the chronicle of our concert

dedicated to the tragic events from 11 September 2001. We
would be honoured if You will publish the article on the site
of the LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION although it is written
in the Romanian language, . The repertory and the dedication
are very clear.
With our best wishes,
Faithfully Yours,
Liana ALEXANDRA and Serban NICHIFOR
===========================
Cu dragoste,DUO INTERMEDIA- NUOVA

MUSICA CONSONANTE sub stele
-----Visul unui recital de sublim si muzica de

came ra in aer liber------
... Ca tot atatea exercitii de recucerirea

paradisu lui pierdut- file din calendarul unui
miracol anuntat...Fabuloase afise de
spectacol,invitatii la concert,caiete program
si,cu parca zgomotul unei mas ini de cusut
gigant,tipografia din inima vechilor Bucuresti
patriarhali und e se naste peste noapte
urmatorul numar al Jurnalului dse
Festival,imortali zand clipa pentru eternitate (in
prim-plan:instantanee cu protagonistii aven
turilor sonore ale editiei; pe fundal-mereu
furnicarul lumii elegante). Ma simt privilegiata
sa schitez dara acum si aici,din cuvinte,silueta
orasului devenit feerica boite-a-musique.Sunt
negresit mai mult decat privilegiata sa
consemnez cu - repet- aceleasi cuvinte in alb-
negru de care nu ma tem decat ca n-ar putea
exprima pe deplin luxurianta paleta cromatica
a evenimentului,-visul recita lului de sublim si
muzica in aer liber-NUOVA MUSICA
CONSONANTE in memoriam 11 Septembrie-

Mesaj uman de iubire asupra careia moartea
nu mai are nici o putere!
11 ?! Era duminica seara pe la ceasurile

8.3op.m. s i la finele unui incendiar program
de folclor cu hora romaneasca rotund inc insa
in aplauzele generale, vara indiana isi intindea
inca peste careul Pietei Festivalului
tentaculele. In mod reflex, avertizat ca
urmeaza un recital de muzica contemporana, s-
are fi presupus ca publicul va bate in retragere.
Surpriza insa--do ar pentru cei ce nu stiu ca,
sfidand desertul cotidian cu atita subjugant
farmec, atita neoconsonanta de frumusete pura
pe axa Orient-Occident, Liana Alexandra si
Serban Nichifor si-au capatat demult locul in
inima melomanilor! --asistenta reunita la
kilometrul "O" al drumurilor care duc toam
na aceasta spre Festival, saluta calduros
prezenta pe scena a tandemului com
pozitorilor-interpreti.
DUO INTERMEDIA- pian si violoncel pret de

o reverie Living Music in Romania- Nuova
Musica Consonante sub stele. In program, mi
nunate creatii semnate de compozitorii
americani Dwight Winenger, Tyler Cas tleton,
Brian Jensen, Mollie Shaffer, Lynn Shurtleff,
Marlyn Collard, Newell Dayley, alaturi de
lucrari de Liana Alexandra, Serban Nichifor,
Boudewijn Buckinx, Doru Popovici, Cor de
Groot si Antanas Kucinkas.
Doi leaderi de generatie din galeria de portrete

a componisticii mondiale, stapanind la
superlativ arta comunicarii , si un sing ur
regal- calatorie de seara, de liniste, si delicata
afectiune, reflectie, privelisti virtuale si
atmosfere...De la valorile noii muzici est si vest
europene citire pana la transcriptii evocand,
precum luna coborata pe Mississippi la vale,
mai mult decat centenarele traditii ale
pionierilor muzicii americane. Ascult. Imi
ascult inima batand de emotie.
ANCA ROMECI
Living Music recently received the following message from Serban

Nichifor, Romanian composer, who has aided the Foundation on many
occasions over the years:
----- Original Message -----

From: Serban Nichifor
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:29 PM
Subject: TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH SMITH, THE AMERICAN
PROPHET by Serban Nichifor
Dear Maestro Winenger,
I have written a « TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH SMITH, THE

AMERICAN PROPHET ».
It gives me great pleasure to send you this musical work
in 14 parts on the attachment of this message (in Midi
format).
With the best wishes,

Faithfully Yours,
Serban NICHIFOR
Romanian Composer
Internet: romania-on-line.net/whoswho/NichiforSerban.htm
E-mail : serbannichifor@gmail.com
serbannichifor@yahoo.com
Gentle reader...
Our response, of course, since Ameriphiles are so rare these days, is to

offer this work for your perusal. Click here to jump to another page to
audit any or all of these fourteen MIDI files as you wish.
--the Editor/webmaster
Evenimente - Program Piata Festivalului

Duminica 11 septembrie
2005
11:00-12:00
Reluare film: „DIMENSIUNI ENESCIENE";

„SERGIU CELIBIDACHE" (film TVR Media)
13:00-14:00
"Cine stie, câstiga" - concurs spectacol având ca tema

viata si opera lui George Enescu
Program realizat de Postul Radio Romania Cultural
19:00-20:00
Program de cântece si jocuri populare - Ansamblul

"Ciuleandra" - Prof. Maria Tanase
20:30-21:00
Interpreteazo Duo INTERMEDIA: SERBAN NICHIFOR –
violoncel, LIANA ALEXANDRA pian
În program lucrari de:
Cor de Groot, Boudewijn Buckinx, Dwight Winenger,

Doru Popovici, Liana Alexandra, Serban Nichifor, Brian
Jensen*, Tyler Castleton*, Mollie Shaffer*, Lynn Shurtleff*,
Marlyn Collard*, Newell Dayley*
(*) – transcrieri instrumentale

de Liana Alexandra si Serban Nichifor
21:30-22:30
Film: „MARTURII DESPRE ENESCU"
„ELENA CERNEI" (film TVR Media)
See also: www.festivalenescu.ro/rom/program_piata.html
Societatea Romana de Radiodifuziune

Miercuri 25 Mai 2005,ora
19,00
Sala Alfred Alessandrescu
Recital Cameral

"Armonii pentru Umanitate"
"Omagiu Pionierilor

Americani"(III)
Susan McClellan(SUA)
flaut
Serban Nichifor -violoncel
Liana Alexandra -pian
In program:prime auditii absolute de:

Brian Jensen,Tyler Castleton,Dennis
Crocket,Mollie Shaffer,Gwen
Cundick,Lynn Shurtleff,Marlyn
Collard,Newell
Dayley,Afterglow,Hilary Week,Tyler
Astleton,Serban Nichifor,Liana
Alexandra .
We have the pleasure to present the extraordinary "60x60" Project at the

National University of Music from Bucharest (Romania) -- in the "Chopin"
Concert Hall, on 9 December 2004, 15:00.
With warmest good wishes for

the future, Click for Reviews in
Romanian
Yours sincerely,
Liana ALEXANDRA Serban NICHIFOR

E-mail:
lianaalexandra@pcnet.ro E-mail:
and
and serbannichifor@pcnet.ro
lianaalexandra@yahoo.com and
snichifor@yahoo.com
Biographical materials concerning Serban Nichifor and

Liana Alexandra are available online:
http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/AlexandraLiana.htm
http://romania-on-line.net/whoswho/NichiforSerban.htm
http://romania-on-line.net/general/duointermedia.htm
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA BUCURESTI

Sala “Chopin”
Joi 9 Decembrie 2004, ora 15
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION –U.S.A.
VOX NOVUS – NEW YORK
COMPUTER MUSIC
60 x 60
In program 60 de lucrari de cate 60 de secunde semnate de:
Riad Abdel-Gawd , Aaron Acosta, Liana Alexandra,
John Allemeier, Christian Banasik, Dennis Bathory- Kitsz, Stephen Betts,
Sandeep Bhagwati, Justin Breame,
Scott Brickman, George Brunner, Robert Carl, Miha Ciglar,
David Claman, Douglas Cohen, Noah Creshevsky,
Leslie de Melcher, Patrick Dorobisz, Moritz Eggert, Karlheinz Essl,
Carlo Forlivesi, David Gamper,
Douglas Geers, Peter Gilbert, Robert Gluck, Daniel Goode, Ramon
Gorgoitia,
James Hegarty, Mark Henry, Erik Hinds, Bernand Hughes, David Jaggard,
Keith Johnson,
Michael Kinney, John Link, David T. Little, Guy Livingston,
Annea Lockwood, Juan Maria Solare, Charles Mason, James McWilliam,
Luis Menacho, David Mooney,
Michael Murphy, Serban Nichifor, Richard O'Donnell, Maggi Payne,
Mark Petering, Morgan Quaintance,
Giuseppe Rapisarda, Laura Reid & Andrew Hudson, Robert Sazdov,
Jacky Schreiber, Alex Shapiro,
Emma Shiffrin, Allen Strange, Thomas Sutter,
Vladimir Tosic, Eldad Tsabary, Robert Voisey.
Prezinta Liana Alexandra si Serban Nichifor
Intrarea libera
More on the 60x60 Concerts around the world.
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA BUCURESTI

Sala 54
Centrul de Informatica
Sambata 11 Decembrie 2004, ora 14

Editia a VII-a
COMPUTER MUSIC
Intalnire cu compozitorul si informaticianul
Daniel Wojcik
(U.S.A.)
creatorul programului “MIDImage”

Directori Artistici
Liana Alexandra
si
Serban Nichifor
Intrarea libera
The ASF sound clip cited below, although not immediately available for
audition, may be heard by arrangement with the webmaster.
Sound Clip:
Serban Nichifor: "Epiphany" for cello and piano (1994) [10:53]
Serban Nichifor, cello; Liana Alexandra, piano

clip properties: epiphany.wma [1-min.][125 KB]
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA
BUCURESTI
Sala 54
Centrul de Informatica
Sambata 11 Decembrie 2004, ora 14

Editia a VII-a
COMPUTER MUSIC
Intalnire cu compozitorul si informaticianul
Daniel Wojcik
(U.S.A.)
creatorul programului
“MIDImage”
Directori Artistici
Liana Alexandra
si
Serban Nichifor
Intrarea libera
1
NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE ANTHOLOGY

(1990-2003)
on mp3
-1-
Chopin Hall, 19-X-2000
HOLLAND
- 1.) TON DE LEEUW - Apparences for cello solo (14:34)

- 2.) LOUIS ANDRIESSEN - La Voce for cello solo (6:41)
- 3.) JAN VAN VLIJMEN - Tombeau for cello solo (19:07)
- 4.) ROB DU BOIS - Sketch for cello and piano (7:57)

- 5.) COR DE GROOT - En Ut for cello and piano (3:26)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), BUMA
-2-
Chopin Hall, 28-II-2000
JAPAN
- 1.) MAKOTO SHINOHARA - Evolution for cello solo (14:18)

- 2.) SATORU IKEDA - Sonata for cello solo (12:42)
- 3.) KEIKI OKASAKA - Komposition A for cello solo (13:25)
- 4.) REIKO MOROHASHI - Preghiera for cello solo (9:42)
- 5.) KAZU MUNAKATA - Llueve I for cello solo (10:50)
- 6.) JOJI YUASA - Interpenetration for 2 flutes (6:11)

Adrian Buciu and Toma Dan - flutes
- 7.) YORI-AKI MATSUDAIRA - Co-Action I and II for cello and piano (10:55)
- 8.) MICHIO MAMIYA - Chiran Bushi and Ginzuru Bushi for cello and piano (5:33)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), JSCM
-3-
GOETHE-INSTITUT BUCHAREST
2-XII-1992
GERMANY
- 1.) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Aria for cello and piano (6:17)
- 2.) PAUL HINDEMITH - Phantasiestück in B-Dur Op.8 Nr.2 for cello and piano (11:51)
- 3.) WOLFGANG RIHM - Grat for cello solo (6:03)
- 4.) HEINO BECKER - Spiel-Zeug Nr.18 for cello and piano (6:09)
- 5.) KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstück Nr.9 for piano solo (5:10)
- 6.) BERND A. ZIMMERMANN - Vier kurze Studien for cello solo (3:11)
- 7.) ANTON WEBERN - Sonate for cello and piano (2:08)
- 8.) ANTON WEBERN - Drei Stücke for cello and piano (2:03)
- 9.) SIEGRID ERNST - Sieben Miniaturen nach japanischen Haiku
2
for voice, cello and piano (12:05)

and Vladimir Popescu-Deveselu - voice
- 10.) URSULA GORSCH - Carjo Samlero - Drei Duette für zwei Flöten (4:20)
Nicolae Maxim and Constanta Badaluta - flutes
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), GEMA
-4-
U.S.A. (I)
(AMERICAN CENTER - BUCHAREST, 14-X-1992)
- 1.) GEORGE GERSHWIN - Prelude for cello and piano (3:04)

- 2.) GEORGE CRUMB - Dream Images for piano solo (6:09)
- 3.) GEORGE CRUMB - Fantasia for cello solo (3:02)
- 4.) AARON RABUSHKA - Doina for cello and piano (4:12)
- 5.) SAMUEL BARBER - Sonata for cello and piano (excerpts) (3:00)
- 6.) DAVID KOBLITZ - Rigor Vitus for cello, trumpet and piano (1:45)
- 7.) STEPHEN MAYER - Tom Thumb for cello, trumpet and piano (2:51)
- 8.) CHARLES IVES - 2 Songs for cello, trumpet and piano (5:25)
- 9.) BRIAN FENNELLY - Tesserae II for cello solo (11:31)
and Ilie Voicu (trumpet)
ISRAEL
(UNMB, 21-IV-1996)
- 10.) PAUL BEN-HAIM - Canzona for cello and piano (7:31)

- 11.) JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSCHY - 6 Israelian Dances for cello and piano (10:05)
-5-
(1995-2002)
BELGIUM (I)
- 1.) CESAR FRANCK - Panis Angelicus for cello and piano (3:04)
- 2.) EUGENE YSAYE - Grave for cello solo (5:08)
- 3.) JACQUES LEDUC - Trois Pièces for cello solo (10:34)
- 4.) JACQUES LEDUC - Elégie for cello and piano (5:39)
- 5.) ANDRE LAPORTE - C-isme for cello solo (5:11)
- 6.) ELIAS GISTELINCK - Song for Beatrice for cello and piano (7:04)
- 7.) RAOUL DE SMEY - Reflexie 1 for cello solo ((3:19)
- 8.) RAOUL DE SMET - Log boek 1 for cello solo (15:23)
- 9.) RAOUL DE SMET - Reminiscenties 3 for cello and piano (5:03)
- 10.) RAOUL DE SMET - Nocturne for cello and piano (9:10)
-6-
(1995-2002)
BELGIUM (II)
- 1.) LUCIEN POSMAN - 22 for cello solo (5:48)

- 2.) WALTER HUS - Cadenza for cello solo (9:00)
- 3.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Naschrift for cello and piano (4:06)
- 4.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - In de buurt van Neptunus for cello and piano (9:08)
3
- 5.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Ex Cello de Coelo for cello and piano (11:34)
- 6.) BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (20:38)
Arad Symphony Orchestra,
Dorin Frandes - conductor
-7-
U.S.A. (II)
UNMB (6-XII-1999), American Center (16-X-2001)

and Romanian Athenaeum (26-V-2002)
- 1.) CHARLES NORMAN MASON - The Artist and His Model

for cello and tape (9:39)
- 2.) DOROTHY HINDMAN - drowningXnumbers for cello solo (12:31:)
- 3.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Incantations III for cello and tape (12:10)
- 4.) DWIGHT WINENGER - Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes
for cello solo (8:27)
- 5.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Issyhia II for cello and tape (6:55)
- 6.) AARON RABUSHKA - Les Strophes d'Orphée for cello solo (10:08)
- 7.) RODNEY OAKES - Fantasy for cello and electronics (9:00)
-8-
U.S.A. (III)
UNMB, 8-III-2003 (concert-tr.13-14); 22

and 29-III-2003 (recordings-tr.1-12)
- 1.) SAMUEL WARD (arr.L.A.) - America the Beautiful (2:54)

- 2.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Amazing Grace Echo (3:14)
- 3.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Welcome Rich (5:54)
- 4.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Good Morning, Sue (3:07)
- 5.) LUACINE CLARK FOX (arr.L.A.) -Love one Another (3:59)
- 6.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Four Mormon Songs (3:06)
- 7.) JOHN J. MCCLELLAN (arr.L.A.) - Sweet in the Work (3:15)
- 8.) MORMON FOLKLORE (arr.S.N.) - The Spirit of God (2:35)
- 9.) LAURENCE LAYON (arr.L.A.) - Create an Atmosphere (1:51)
- 10.) GWEN M. CUNDICK (arr.L.A.) - A Family is Forever (2:30)
- 11.) T. CASTETON (arr.S.N.) - Perfect Love (3:46)
- 12.) CHERIE CALL (arr.S.N.) - Promises I Keep (3:28)
- 13.) S. PETERS (arr.S.N.) - Fearless Heart (with voices) (4:04)
- 14.) CHERIE CALL (arr.S.N.) - Promises I Keep (with voices) (4:03)
Susan McClellan - flute, Liana Alexandra - piano,Serban Nichifor - cello (1-12),
T. J. Love - soprano, Mary Lubic - mezzo-soprano (13-14)
(c) by DESERET BOOK (USA), NMC-LMF (USA), ASCAP
-9-
(1992-2002)
FRANCE
- 1.) CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Sonate for cello and piano (p.I-II) (8:17)
- 2.) FRANCOIS BOUSCH - Trois Miniatures for cello solo (6:27)
- 3.) MAURICE RAVEL - Habanera for cello and piano (2:54)
VARIA
- 4.) GASPAR CASSADO - Sonata for cello solo (12:10)

4
- 5.) ANTANAS KUCINKAS - A la Maria for cello and piano (3:09)

- 6.) PIOTR LACHERT - Te ne ricordi ? for cello solo (10:29)
- 7.) MAREK KOPELENT - Karrak for cello and piano (7:41)
- 8.) HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS - Piece for cello and piano (3:08)
- 9.) PIOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY - Pezzo Capriccioso for cello and piano (6:07)
(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), SACEM, SABAM, UCMR-ADA
- 10 -
(BUCHAREST, GENT, ANTWERPEN - 1999-2000)
ROMANIA (I)
- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Fantasia for cello and piano (12:43)

- 2.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Five Sequences for cello and piano (7:55)
- 3.) ADRIAN POP - Cadenza for cello solo (5:30)
- 4.) ADRIAN MOCIULSCHI - Anamnesis for cello and piano (2:58)
- 5.) NICOLAE COMAN - Monodia for cello solo (5:06)
- 6.) NICOLAE COMAN - Canto for cello and piano (2:14)
- 7.) CORNELIU DAN GEORGESCU - Gemini for piano solo (4:12)
- 8.) DORU POPOVICI - In Memoriam Tristan Tzara for cello and piano (7:07)
- 9.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Conceptofonia for cello and piano (9:42)
- 10.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Epifania for cello and piano (10:43)
- 11 -
(BUCHAREST, CLUJ, PESCARA, ANTWERPEN - 1996-2002)
ROMANIA (II)
- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Chant d'amour de la dame à la licorne

for soprano, cello and piano (24:23)
- 2.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - The Voice for bass, cello and piano (11:24)
- 3.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Oration for soprano,cello and piano(6:16)
- 4.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Invocatio for cello and piano (5:51)
- 5.) SERBAN NICHIFOR - Amazing Grace Echo
- 6.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Melody for cello and piano (3:04)
- 7.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Jerusalaim Shel Zahav
- 8.) LIANA ALEXANDRA-SERBAN NICHIFOR - Improvisation
on Byzantine Themes for cello and piano (3:10)
Georgeta Stoleriu - soprano, Pompei Harasteanu - bass,
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Welcome to the 2007 Visual Music Marathon! The Marathon received over 300
works from 34 countries for its open call, and we are excited to be able to present the very best
of those today. We are also screening works chosen by our two principal guest curators, Bruce Table of Contents
Wands of the School of Visual Arts and New York Digital Salon, and Larry Cuba of the Iota Center,
2 Article Visual Music
plus several “historic” works on 16 mm film. These will be complemented by other pieces from a
number of invited guest artists and by live video performances by Brian Knoth and Jeff Mission. 19 Article Citations
22 Hour 1 10am - 11am
The works on the Marathon represent a vast range of approaches to “visual music,” from pieces
in which the images and music are directly tied by the sharing of parameters, to those in which 25 Hour 2 11am - 12pm
the images “interpret” the music (or vice versa), to works where the visuals are edited in tight 29 Hour 3 12pm - 1pm
synchrony with cues in the music. (In her excellent article found elsewhere in this booklet,
Maura McDonnell of Trinity College, Dublin, explores the background of visual music in great
31 Hour 4 1pm - 2pm
detail.) All of these approaches can result in interesting and compelling compositions, and we 33 Hour 5 2pm - 3pm
hope that you will find many works of interestamong the 120 pieces presented today.
37 Hour 6 3pm - 4pm
This event would not have been possible without the efforts of a number of people. I would 40 Hour 7 4pm - 5pm
like to thank Professors Ann Steuernagel and Isabel Meirelles of Northeastern University for 42 Hour 8 5pm - 6pm
assisting in the selection of works from the open call. Thanks also to Sung-Joo Kim, director and
programmer of Animpact, Korea, for his programming suggestions. I would also like to thank 45 Hour 9 6pm - 7pm
Cindy Keefer of the Center for Visual Music for her expert advice on the planning and production 47 Hour 10 7pm - 8pm
of the event.
48 Hour 11 8pm - 9pm
Thanks also to Maureen Ton, who designed all online and print materials for the event, and 50 Hour 12 9pm - 10pm
Arthur Rishi, who provided enormous help with the promotion and production of the show.
54 Guest Curators
I would also like to thank Andrew Scott for setting up and maintaining all IT systems for the
Marathon and Anthony DeRitis, Chair of the Music Department at Northeastern, for his early 56 Schedule
and invaluable support. Finally, a nod to Eric Chasalow of Brandeis University, who conceived
the original “marathon” concept in conjunction with a music program for the 2000 Cyberarts
festival.
With best wishes,

Dennis Miller, Artistic Director
2007 Visual Music Marathon
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Thank you so much for sending me your updated Introduction to
Computer Music. It is a great achievement, and will be of much use to
your students and people working in the field. Congratulations.
BARRY SCHRADER
Professor - CALARTS: California Arts School of Music
Dear Serban,
Thank you very much for sending your book. I appreciate it very
much.
BEN BIERMAN
Professor - Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College
Conf. univ. Dr. Serban NICHIFOR
REPERE
INTR-O ANALIZA HOLISTICA A
POSTMODERNISMULUI
MUZICAL
Synopsis I
UNIVERSITATEA NATIONALA DE MUZICA

BUCURESTI
Octombrie 2006
1
Prof.Dr. Serban NICHIFOR

National University of Music Bucharest
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CHAMBER MUSIC GENRE

IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
OF EUROPE
(speech)
- SYLLOGISM –
- Major Premise: the complexity of the genre;
- Premise - min.1: the prestigious baroque, classic, romantic,

modern, and postmodern repertory;
- Premise - min.2: the accessibility of the genre – a.) in the public

perspective; b.) in the economical perspective (relating to the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods and
services);
- Premise - min.3: the open configuration of the genre – a.)

relating to the ensemble structure; b.) relating to the interactive
live-electronic music / live-computer music / Internet chamber
music experiments (for example, the “SoundWIRE” research
project - http://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/ );
- Premise - min.4: the application in the curriculum of the new

analysis systems : the Schenkerian Analysis, the
Phenomenology-based Analysis, and the Computer Analysis
software projects - for example, “MaMuTh”
( http://flp.cs.tu-berlin.de/MaMuTh/ ) ,
and “Wavesurfer” (http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ )
– see APPENDIX;
- Premise - min.5: the interferences with complementary musical

genres (opera, symphonic, choral, vocal, jazz, pop, folk, rock,
new age), with video productions (example: chamber music with
real time visualizations – like fractal structures from the
Mandelbrot Set), and with some experimental applications
(therapy, genetic music , etc.).
2
CONCLUSIONS (“E Pluribus Unum” )
- C.1 - The application of a synchronized european curriculum in

the field of the chamber music course, leading to graduation and to
the integration of the students in the so abundant musical activities
– in connection with the intra- and extra-european experiences.
- C.2 – The importance of the contemporary musical styles (in

postmodernism – process, minimal, spectral, ambient, new consonant,
new age, visual, fractal, genetic, psybient music, etc.) in the chamber
music repertory of the students (ca 33%) – in connection with the
traditional repertory (ca 66%), in a feedback process.
- C. 3 – The autonomy of the chamber music professor (his right of

self-government, in connection with the Bologna documents) -
particularly interested in developing an outstanding curriculum (that
integrates musical instruction/ chamber coaching with creative
presentation/ selected chamber performances) in order to produce
distinguished and - in fact ! - innovative musicians for the future. The
educational chamber music program integrates also master classes of
some important artists.
- C.4 – In the evaluation of the musical performance the

purpose is “to examine the effects of rating scale instruction on self-
evaluation accuracy among student musicians” (apud Nathan B.
Kruse, “The Effect of Instruction on Sixth Grade Band Students’
Abilities to Self-Rate Etude Performance”,Michigan State University,
School of Music,
http://www.rider.edu/~vrme/v8n1/vision/VRME_Submission.Kruse.p
df. ). “Results indicated that rating scale instruction was more effective
than no rating scale instruction in helping students improve self-rating
accuracy (…) Rating scale instruction may not only benefit students’
self-evaluation accuracy, but may also be a practice strategy toward
improving students’ independent musicianship.”
REFERENCES
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on self- evaluation music performance. Journal of Research in Music Education,
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- Bundy, O. R. (1987). Instrumentalists’ perception of their performance as
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performance: An overview. In H. Jorgensen & A. C. Lehman (Eds.), Does
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th Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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learning: A social cognitive perspective. In R. Colwell & C. Richardson (Eds.),
The new handbook of research on music teaching and learning, 327-347. New
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the evaluation of high school instrumental performance. Journal of Research in
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regulation: An analysis of exemplary instructional models. In D. H. Schunk & B.
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APPENDIX: Example of Computer Analysis

in the Chamber Music Course
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
DIE KUNST DER FUGE

THE ART OF FUGUE
BWV 1080 (1750)
Arrangement for Guitar Quartet

Serban NICHIFOR (2006)
Copyright © 2006 by Serban NICHIFOR (SABAM)

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The Music of
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(Thursday, July 31, 2008)
http://www.dwightwinenger.net/journalx1.htm 07.10.2008
Adams, H. Leslie. "Offertory." In: King of Kings. (Anthology of organ works, Vol. I). Comp. and
James Abbington. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2008.
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2006 Midwest Minutes includes 60 60-second works by 60 composers:

Count them...sixty (60)
composers
Monroe Golden Sean O'Neill
Aaron Acosta Arthur Gottschalk Thomas Park
Brian Allen Richard Hall Colin Pool
Dwight Ashley James Hegarty Carmel Raz
Jeremy Baguyos Stuart Hinds Steven Ricks
Marita Bolles Lynn Job John Ross
Nils Bultman Cory Kasprzyk Stephen Rush
Nicolas Buron Michael Khoury Bill Ryan
Christopher Cook Gary Knudson David Sartor
David Cubberly HyeKyung Lee Brian Schorn
Lucio Cuellar Patrick Liddell Mozhgan Shahidi
Brad Decker Stan Link Rachel Slusarczyk
Ian Dicke Don Malone Alex Templ
Greg Dixon Charles Norman Mason Balie Todd
Mark Eden Deborah Monroe Joseph Vogel
Timothy Dwight Edwards David Morneau Robert Voisey

Ivan Elezovic Jeff Myers Andrew Walters
Doug Geers David Newby Justin Writer
Scott Gendel Judith Newby Cherilyn Young
Michael P. Geraci Lewis Nielson and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (colle
Michele Gillman
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Composers and their works:
1. Hiromi Abe Guess 01 33. Tom Lopez Moth
2. Aaron Acosta Traffic Under 60 34. Eric Lyon Molten Statues
3. Norman Adams Partial precept 35. Eugene Marlow 48 Rows in One
4. John Allemeier Skrit Minute
5. Nery Pedro Bauer Junior Machine 36. David Evan Mooney Ducks in
#01 Motion
6. Vladimir Beluntsov A minute weight 37. Samy Mousa Papa
7. Charles Berry Passing Gas 38. Marco Oppedisano The End is Near
8. Scot Brickman Signature: Peace 39. Terry Winter Owens Disclavier-Das
9. George Brunner Radio Play Klavier
10. David Campbell The Sputnik Diary 40. Maggi Payne 60 Spin
11. Eliot Carson love hurts 41. Mark Petering Life Cycle
12. David Claman Loomings 42. Gene Pritsker Junk Fragment
13. Andy Cohen rim at x (rat mix) 43. Aaron Rogier Going
14. Douglas Cohen Welcome 44. James Romig Fragment
15. Noah Creshevsky Try 45. Josh Ronsen brkekexkoaxkoax
16. Stephen Decesare Moondance 46. Marianna Rosett Two-Part Invention
17. Derek Devore System Activated
18. Michael Edgerton A Little Watter, 47. Philip Schuellser Peptyde
man Hallucinatione
19. Daniel Eichenbaum Car Accident 48. Coa Schwab Miniature 01
20. Mikado Endo Where am I? 49. Eric Schwartz the electronic music
21. Elaine Fine Imagine Happiness revolution will most certainly
22. Wesley Fuller Aegean blue be televised with the five part harmony,
23. Matias Giuliani Un Siglo, un minuto full orchestration, and all the
24. Gerado Perez Giusti Mini-A-Tura phenomena
25. Gordon Green Birds 50. Andrew Shapiro Coda Piece
26. David Hahn Goo Mee 51. Judith Shatin Glimmerings
27. James Hegarty Reset: 59.5 52. Juan Solare nice noise
28. Norbert Herber Trak News Agency 53. Allen Strange shadow boxer
29. David Evan Jones Writing Out Loud 54. Benjamin Thigpen nous n'avons
30. Michael Kinney One Minute of qu'un espair au monde
listening pleasure 55. Eldad Tsabary Lost-Salvage-Divined
31. Mary Jane Leach Dido Remembered

32. Stan Link Cavatina from an 56. Michael Vernusky The Singularity
Imaginary Opera 57. John Villec Glassbur
58. Robert Voisey ripples in sand
59. Christopher McWard Dance,
Truman, Dance.
60. Dwight Winenger rnd.snd.bas
3.
More about H. Leslie Adams

(There may be some repetition from #1 above.)
Opera North, Pennsylvania's only African American Opera Company, cordially invites you
to "Blake", the second presentation of An African American Triptych on Saturday, April
12th at 8:00 pm, at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.
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BLAKE was given two notable excerpt performances following its VOX Showcase
presentation. On November 7, 2006 THE BLAKE SUITE was featured on the Chamber
Music Live Series at Queens College, Flushing New York, and on January 3, 2007 at the
Schomburg Center in New York City. The latter presentation, by Avava Artists, was the
official opening concert for the 52nd Annual Convention of the National Opera Association
Convention.
The opera tells the story of young love, forced separation and the search for true love in the
antebellum South prior to the Civil War. It also depicts the quest for freedom during those
turbulent times in America. The opera, when performed in its entirety, is in four acts with a
running time of about two and a half hours.
Adams' works are increasingly gaining in visibility and audience and critical acclaim. The
composer recently did a week-long residency at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia,
(February, 2007) which culminated in a concert of his art songs and music from a new
drama with music, "Slaves." An all-Adams concert was also presented by the East
Cleveland, Ohio Public Library in the Greg Reese Performing Arts Center (January,
2007). ###
On January 7, 2006 the National Opera Association awarded its Lift Every Voice Legacy
Award to Composer H. Leslie Adams.
The event took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the Four Points Hilton Hotel, which hosted
NOA's 51st Annual Convention.
Adams was present to receive the award, and earlier in the week participated in a Panel of
Composers and Impresarios discussing the "Future of Opera in America."
His song group, "Daybirth, " on texts of Joette McDonald, was the topic of a scholarly
paper presented by Gail Robinson, with McDonald also present.
Adams accompanied Robinson on "Lullaby Eternal," a song from "Daybirth" at the paper
presentation and again, at the request of the Convention, as a finale to the final session: a
banquet which featured winners of the vocal competitions held during the convention.
Adams award reads, "The National Opera Association presents this 'Lift Every Voice
Legacy Award' to H. Leslie Adams; January 7, 2006." ###
Maestro Aurelio de la Vega presented an illustrated lecture on his music April
19, 2006, at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies of the
University of Miami, Florida. The title of the lecture is "A Long Musical
Journey." The illustrated lecture was given in connection with an on-going
international celebration of his 80th anniversary. For reservations, phone (305)
284-2822.
Rodney Oakes In Concert

I am enclosing the announcement of my solo concert on April 29. Although I have
performed off and on over the past few years, I have not presented a solo concert of my
original music in about 14 years. I decided it was time to share some of my more recent
works in an intimate setting.
The room at Alvas is quite nice. It is a small venue, seating only 60. I hope I can fill it for
this performance!
I have created what I believe to be some interesting works recently. I am especially excited
about the Blue Bridge, a work for MIDI trombone and DVD. The material is the Vincent
Thomas Bridge and its recent lights.
I hope to finish another work for MIDI trombone and DVD, Variations on The Krakow
Fanfare. The material dates back to 1241, and am pleased with the progress I am making
with this piece.
Thanks for letting me share with you information about this event.
Rod Oakes
Original Music for the Trombone and Electronics

April 29, 2006
8:00 PM
Rosalie & Alva's Performance Gallery
1417 W. 8th Street
San Pedro, CA 90732
Ten dollar admission
Tickets and information available at (800) 403- 3447
Irwin Swack's work, "Profiles" for clarinet, violin and cello, was
performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Sat., Mar. 4, at 2:00 p.m.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2006, Verona, New Jersey - Subito Music Corporation has

acquired the catalog of Seesaw Music from the family of the late Raoul Ronson.
Subito will retain the Seesaw name and imprint on the entire catalog, which consists of over
3600 works by more than 300 composers.
Seesaw Music Corporation was founded in New York City by Mr. Ronson in 1964 to create
a place for the serious music being created at the time. Subito President Stephen Culbertson
states: `Seesaw Music was one of the first `print-on-demand` publishers, before that term
became current. There are many works with a long performance history, as well as gems
that we hope to re-introduce to the concert music community. We are pleased to be able to
keep the entire catalog intact and available. We hope to add new works to the catalog as
well as modernize the distribution system by using current technology and adding online
ordering capabilities.`
Acquisition of the Seesaw catalog marks a period of unprecedented growth and expansion
for Subito Music Corporation, which recently assumed distribution for the Subito print
catalog, the CD Sheet Music 2.0 product line, and several other series including Large Print
Music and The Digital Editions.
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and copyright administration services for composers and publishers. In addition, SMC
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ranging from digital sheet music delivery and short-run print-on-demand capabilities, to its
innovative distribution and promotion agency services and e-commerce functionality.
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I have the great pleasure to send You my new composition "Song of Mars", inspired by a
very beautiful, a fantastic picture realized by the NASA in this extraordinary American
mission to Mars. In fact, the background of this music (the "objective" like organ sounds) is
a conversion of the attached "jpg image" to "midi sounds" (with the "MIDImage" software),
and the melody is my "subjective" contribution...
Faithfully Yours,
Dr. Serban NICHIFOR Song of Mars by Dr. Serban Nichifor
(Click the image to audition.)

It gives me great pleasure to send You (on MIDI
file) also a new wonderful composition of Liana
ALEXANDRA : RHYTHMS. I like this music !

Faithfully Yours,
Serban

Reviews about NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE - LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION 2003
(Computer Music from U.S.A., Belgium, Italy, England and Romania), for the Bucharest
magazines "Actualitatea Muzi," (January 2004) and "Observator Cultural" (January 2004).
With our highest regards,

Liana ALEXANDRA & Serban NICHIFOR
Update: February 1, 2004:

I have the pleasure of sending you my compendium "INTRODUCTION TO
COMPUTER MUSIC" - for my course at the National University of Music in Bucharest. In
fact, this is an INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC OF THE UNITED STATES because
Computer Music - this marvelous genre - is 99 % AMERICAN MUSIC !!!
The text is in Romanian, but with numerous English Expressions. In Chapter A
(Chronology), I have inserted some information about you and the your magnificent
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Yours faithfully,
Serban NICHIFOR
Note to the reader: email copies of this compendium in Romanian are available from the
webmaster
Jose' Salazar:
Jose' Salazar was presented in concert in New York City at the Weill Recital Hall,
at Carnegie Hall, on March 26, 2006.
Here is the new program of the Composers Colloquium I am organizing at our UNI
since 1996.
With my regards.
Violeta Dinescu
Carl von Ossietzky Universitdt Oldenburg
Fakultdt III
Musik
Kammermusiksaal (A-11)
Ammerldnder Heerstra_e 114-118
Komponisten Colloquium
SS 2003
Musik unserer Zeit
25.4.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann (Oldenburg)

Zur Gleichzeitigkeit verschiedener Musikkulturen
2.5.2003
.00 Uhr -
Peter Machajdmk (Bratislava/Berlin)
23.5.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Juliane Klein (Berlin)

- in Kooperation mit Oh-Ton Oldenburg -
30.5.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Daniel Rothman (LA/USA)

Gast: David Smeyers (Klarinette)
- in Kooperation mit Radio Bremen -
6.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Lars Graugaard (Kopenhagen/Ddnemark)
20.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Peter Schleuning (Oldenburg)

Schleunings Flvtenzirkus.
F|nf Flvten bilden eine Faust: Musikwissenschaft am Limit
27.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Insa Oertel: Der Komponist Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

(Chile/Oldenburg)
- Vortrag in Anwesenheit des Komponisten -
Gast: Ljuba Markova (Klavier)
4.7.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Mihaela Vosganian (Bukarest/Rumdnien)

und
-20.00 Uhr -
Diana Simon und Rucsandra Popescu (Bukarest)

Gesprdchskonzert
Dear Dwight,
I am very happy to send you information about my new opera premiere in Oldenburg and
also the program of the composer colloquium I am organizing at the UNI since 1996.
With my regards,
Violeta
Info Erindira
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Kleines Haus
Erindira
Kammeroper von Violeta Dinescu nach Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Musikalische Leitung: Eric Solin
Regie: Mascha Pvrzgen
Ausstattung: Cordelia Matthes
Erindira: Anja Metzger

Grossmutter: Christina Ascher
Ulysses: Paul Brady
(sowie Marit Risnes, Ute Biniass, Alwin Kvlblinger, Brian Joyce, Toshihiko Matsui,
Anthony Gardner)
Kartenbestellung
Tel.: 0441 / 2225 111
Fax: 0441 / 2225 221
Sa., 16.11.2002, 20:00 Premiere

Do., 21.11.2002, 20:00
Mi., 04.12.2002, 20:00
Mi., 11.12.2002, 20:00
Sa., 21.12.2002, 20:00
So., 12.01.2003, 20:00
Sa., 18.01.2003, 20:00
Do., 23.01.2003, 20:00
Am Sonntag, 3. November um 17 Uhr findet die Einf|hrung in das St|ck und die
Inszenierung statt.
weitere Information unter www.oldenburg.staatstheater.de
W|stenwind, Orangenduft und Gr|nes Blut ERENDIRA Oper von Violeta Dinescu nach
einer Novelle von Gabriel G. Marquez
B|hnenbild-Detail
Eine phantastische Novelle voller poetischer Bilder und magischer Anspielungen bildet die
Vorlage f|r eine Oper mit einer zwischen Realitdt und Traumwelt oszillierenden Handlung.
Magische Rdume aus s|damerikanischen Bilderwelten werden beschworen. Die Musik des
Kammerorchesters bildet eine eigene Welt. Sie bebildert die Handlung nicht, sondern spinnt
selber verschiedene Handlungsstrdnge fort. Sie symbolisiert das ;Unterwegs-Sein+ von
Erindira, ihr Suchen und die Offenheit des Endes. ;Der Klangraum meiner Musik verdndert
sich stdndig wie Treibsand. Man kann in ihm versinken, wenn man selbst nicht schnell
genug ist.+ (Violeta Dinescu) Eine Musik, die nicht der Untermalung dient, sondern die der
Magie der Geschichte eine eigene, poetische Ebene hinzuf|gt.
Premiere
16.11.2002
20.00 Uhr
Kleines Haus
David Manson's Indie label isospin labs has released two CDs that you may be
interested in if you like innovative and adventurous music.
Fluid Motion is a jazz quintet featuring saxophonist Sam Rivers, a true legend in the jazz
realm. The recording is a balance between structure and freedom. CD Baby has some
excerpts in mp3. www.cdbaby.com/fluidmotion
Visions is a compilation of performances from the EMIT series. The music ranges from free
jazz to electronic and experimental. It is "music for the strong of ear" featuring Peter
Kowald, Evan Parker, Sam Rivers, Amy Denio, Day & Taxi, Eugene Chadbourne,
Davey Williams, Pamela Z, Daniel Carter and other artists. www.cdbaby.com/cd/emit
The recordings are available via CD Baby, NorthCountry and Wayside.
Thanks for your support of creative music!
David Manson
EMIT
www.emitseries.org
mansond@email.spjc.cc.fl.us
Vivian Adelberg Rudow's full orchestra music SPIRIT OF AMERICA was premiered
on Friday, July 12, 2002, 7:00 PM performed by the Chesapeake Orchestra, Jeffrey
Silberschlag conductor, during a FREE River Concert Series at St. Mary's College, St.
Mary's City, Maryland.
Adelberg Rudow and friends conducted in the audience during audience participation
sections of SPIRIT OF AMERICA.
The River Concert Series, a set of festive high quality outdoor concerts, draws
approximately 4,000 people per concert. The variety of styles of music professionally
performed, good food, the beautiful waterfront setting, create a unique music experience.
For more information about the River Concert Festival and directions, see the web site:
www.smcm.edu/rcs
For more information from the composer: phone 410-889-3939, E-mail:
VivianAR@jhu.edu
Liana Alexandra's paper on the Living Music Foundation, presented on Friday, 5

April 2002, at the National University of Music of Bucharest on the occasion of their
annual festival of the faculty of Composition, Musicology, and Pedagogie was well-
received and will be published in a cultural review to be reproduced in part here.
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:46 PM

Subject: "Living Music" by Liana Alexandra
Dear Sir,
I have the honour to present my article intitled "Living Music" published at the review
OBSERVATOR CULTURAL this week (nr.114). You can see this article on
www.observatorcultural.ro
Sincerely yours,
Liana Alexandra lianaalexandra@pcnet.ro
Member News - Joseph Pehrson - 4/01/08
The Composers Concordance would like to announce a new video on YouTube by our
co-director, Joseph Pehrson.
YouTube
It's a piece called "Spinner" and it is here shown at the Moscow Composers' Union. The
piece is for clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello (2007) and it was also performed in Moscow
as part of the "Jurgenson Salon" on March 22, 2008.
Performers are Alexander Filatov, clarinet, Sergei Grashchenkov, bassoon, Anastasia

Ponochevnaya, viola and Lydia Zinchenko, cello...
Joseph Pehrson recently had two performances of his Spectral Harmony for saxophone
and French horn by Jean Luc Darbellay's group, the "Spectral Ensemble" in Bern
Switzerland and Mulhouse, France March 15 and March 17, 2002.
In addition, his work Three Pianopieces will be performed by pianist Jeffrey Jacob, of
George Crumb notoreity at New York University on April 29, 2002 at Loewe Theatre. Mr.
Jacob will also be recording the piece commercially this Summer.
Two additional pieces by Pehrson will be featured this Spring which use electronics and
which are in unusual tuning systems. On Saturday, May 25th, 2002 Pehrson's Blackjack for
trombone and electronics in the just intonation "Blackjack" scale will be played by Chris
Washburne, trombone on Johnny Reinhard's American Festival of Microtonal Music at the
Roulette performance space in New York.
The Composers Concordance will be presenting another unusual work in an alternate

tuning for viola and electronics on Thursday, May 30, 2002 with Olivia Koppell, viola.
In addition to these concert works, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre is presenting

Shakespeare's The Tempest using Pehrson's music, and his arrangements of Renaissance
"standards" in a run from April 17, 2002 through May 12, 2002. This is the second time this
theatre company has presented The Tempest with Pehrson's music.
Serban Nichifor presented a recital of Solo Cello music during the International Festival
NEW MUSIC WEEK in Bucharest, Romania, held in May 2002.
"LIVING MUSIC FOR CELLO"

- Interferente Romano-Americane -
(Serban NICHIFOR - cello)
The program consisted exclusively of music by American and Romanian members

of The Living Music Foundation:
Dwight WINENGER (USA): "Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes"
pentru violoncel solo (p.a.)
Liana ALEXANDRA: "Incantatii III" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica
(p.a.a.)
Charles Norman MASON (USA): "The Artist and His Model"
pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.)
Serban NICHIFOR: "Isihia II" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.a.)
Rodney OAKES (USA): "Fantasy for Cello & Electronics" (p.a.)
Cellist Craig Hultgren performed a solo program of seven world premieres on a Nov.
18th, 2001 program for Artburst at the Unitarian Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
This contemporary performance featured both acoustic and electronic works created for
him. The works cover a broad panorama of visions and voices from the last three years
surrounding the change of the century.
H7yx a for cello, speaking cellist & tape by Sherban Nichifor (Roumania)
Only Four for solo cello by Charles Knox (Atlanta)
After Hours for violoncello & tape by Kurt Carpenter (Sterritt, AL)
Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes for solo cello by Dwight Winenger
(California)
The Ninth Wave for cello & computer generated tape by Robert Scott Thompson
(Atlanta)
Lavender Slumber for solo cello by Andy Delikat (Birmingham)
Waltzes for Capone for cello & digital electronics by Matthew Marth (Olympia, WA)
The concert was an enormous success as testified to by the following review:
Birmingham News/Today
Entertainment News
Hultgren uses novel cello to set surrealistic tone

11/20/01
MICHAEL HUEBNER
News staff writer
Artburst's challenging season of cutting-edge music, dance and theater continued Sunday night at
the Unitarian Universalist Church. Cellist Craig Hultgren, Birmingham's leading cultivator of new
music, provided the acoustic and electronic instruments. Seven composers furnished the
compositions, most of which were world premieres.
Hultgren has networked widely in his quest for innovative music, and for this concert he came up
with some gems. Starting off with Robert Scott Thompson's "The Ninth Wave," Hultgren unveiled
his new electronic cello a bodyless stick figure of an instrument that he used to great effect
accompanying a bed of ghostly sound masses from the two speakers flanking him. Distant voices
and seascapes echoed through the hall in a vaguely melodic, thoroughly engaging framework.
Romanian composer Serban Nichifor's "Hyxía" is steeped in ritual, the cello and vocals (the cellist
is required to sing in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English), successfully bridging Eastern orthodoxy
and Western Christianity through an evocative array of pre-recorded sounds and cello harmonics.
For "After Hours," Kurt Carpenter resurrected an analog tape piece from the days when Moog, Arp
and Buchla synthesizers ruled the avant-garde, and wrote a cello part for it.
The juxtaposition of the live instrument with the synthesized whistles, bird calls and random bloops
and bleeps worked surprisingly well. Hultgren mimicked, cajoled and otherwise provided a spirited
accompaniment.
Matthew Marth's provocative "Waltzes for Capone," for cello and digital electronics, was the
evening's most tantalizing and technically advanced composition. Crystalline bell tones and quotes
from Strauss waltzes set the taped background for the work, which explored the warped psyche of
the notorious gangster. The result was a surrealistic, sometimes naive and bizarre dialogue with the
live instrument.
Of the three pieces for solo acoustic cello, two lacked the flare of the electronic works. The
exception came from Dwight Winenger, whose Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes
delighted with its inventive and playful reminiscences on the Pink Panther theme and the hymn "Red
and Yellow, Black and White."
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"Boola Boola Revisited" by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
Boola Boola Revisited

by Orlando Jacinto García
This article is reprinted from the June,
2001, issue of 21st Century Music by
permission of the author and
copyright proprietor.
Slightly more than 15 years ago, soon after finishing my doctoral

studies, I had the great fortune of studying with Morton Feldman for 3
intensive weeks. These sessions proved to have a great impact on my
career as a composer and pedagogue and I was fortunate to be able to
count Morty as a friend as a result of those three weeks. One day not
long after his death in 1987, I came across an article he had written
entitled "Boola Boola" published in a collection of his essays by
Berlinger Press, in which he strongly criticized academia. At first this
seemed a bit contradictory; he was after all a Professor of

Composition at SUNY Buffalo when I met him. However the article
written much earlier was still consistent with the criticisms he
continued making even after he was in academia. Given my own
continual strong criticisms of the composition world in the US (which
consists of large numbers of people involved with academia), I have
been challenged by several colleagues to write a short article
expressing my concerns at the end of the 20th century. The following
is a summary of these concerns.
As we reach the millennium, unbeknownst to many of the participants,
we find the Art music world in the US in a state of disarray and chaos,
mired in a mediocrity few eras have known. Perhaps we the
composers/teachers are at fault; the victim of our efficient technology
where all kinds of information is made available to everyone with an
immediacy not known before. We will try to teach almost anyone just
about anything (after all who needs talent when you have technology).
Unfortunately, the result has been that those without talent,
musicianship, musicality, or imagination, have been invited to join
and subsequently invaded our ranks. This situation is the accumulation
of decades of work by the composer mills around the country
propagating and justifying faculty teaching positions at the expense of
quality while at the same time graduating mediocrity . This situation
has reached a point where the majority of the 20,000-30,000 so-called
composers of Art music in the US (figures compiled by the American
Music Center); many of whom have or have had some affiliation with
a university, are "successfully disseminating" their technically barren,
unimaginative works throughout the university systems of our country
and to some extent even parts of the rest of the "world".
I use the term "successfully disseminating" in quotes because a large
percentage of my colleagues don't live in the real world and, as such,
successful dissemination is a relative term. Unknown to many of my
colleagues, a performance by the university choir or the faculty pianist
at their or another university does not generally constitute a
performance in the real world, pedagogical relevance notwithstanding.
Concerts where the audience consists of composers listening to
composers is not the real world. Concerts where the audience consists
of music students listening to composers is not the real world.
Concerts where students are performing these works, generally, is not
the real world. Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming numbers of
mediocre composers pushing their wares, any university performance
can and is considered successful dissemination by my colleagues since
much of this music would rarely, if ever, be performed outside of the
university system. Please note that by this I am certainly not implying
that music needs to be dumbied down to exist outside of academia, but
more on this later.
When I read the bios of many of the so called relatively successful
university composers in the US, they are chock full of citations about
performances at this university or that university. In short, the Art
music scene in the US has been brought down to amateur standing by
the university composer.
The university has become the triple A ball, the NCAA of the Art
music world and the composer organizations and their conferences
most often basically provide the tournament or world series.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), most
composers never leave the minor leagues. The alternative to being
presented at these events for many is not writing and/or receiving
performances. In some ways this may be preferable given what I am
hearing around the country.
The so called post-modern culture we live in where synthesis, a look
at the past, a plethora of styles, points of view, aesthetics, etc. are all
viable, has also been another catalyst for the opening of a Pandora's
box of mediocrity. There is no better place where this is evident than
in the conferences/festivals of so called Art music (whether it be
acoustic or electro-acoustic or both) around the country where out of
more than 100 "curated works" that are being performed you are
fortunate if you hear 1 or 2 with anything to say. Most of the works
consist of a "gray" blend of aesthetics with each composers presenting
his or her "mix". Professional, high quality soloists and ensembles
who do live in the real world, do not become interested in someone's
works because those works were played at numerous university
conferences.
They often become interested because the music has something to say
(regardless of aesthetics or style). Of course all of the composers that I
am discussing in this article will assume that they have something to
say and that I am addressing someone else. If your music is not
traveling among the professional world, whether it be Festivals abroad
or professional first rate ensembles in the US (and I don't mean the
wind ensemble at a university in Texas or the hand bell choir at some
school in Maine) then I am talking about you. This is not to say that a
composer's music should not be heard at a university. Many of us are
pedagogues and, as such, students should be exposed to our work.
Nevertheless, with extremely few exceptions, if that is where the
majority of a composer's works are being performed, then something
is wrong.
In the age of government cut backs, anti-quality, anti-substance

(whether it be in education, the arts, or elsewhere), many of my
university colleagues are on the pseudo-ethno, pseudo-jazz, pseudo-
Mozart, pseudo-Strauss populist bandwagon. Let's write a music that
will sell to the new NEA or its eventual new version, regardless of
substance, imagination, or craft. Pretty melodies are back. Let's reach
out to the condo-commandos at the retirement home; they do so love
nice chamber music. Let's see what we can appropriate from another
culture-probably Hispanic, Asian, or Native American folk music
since these seem to be a big hit today. How about recent popular
culture? The 50's, 60's, and 70's are quite in vogue today. Let's extract
some tunes/quotes from the Pop Icons, TV shows, etc. of the time and
try to add a few "twists."
Recently at a national festival one of my colleagues whose music does

travel, exclaimed to me while listening to piece after piece of
mediocre "gray" conglomeration of aesthetics, "haven't any of these
composers ever heard of Stravinsky, Varese, Webern, or Cage." I
briefly replied, "If they have (and who knows), in these composers'
minds those aesthetics won't fly today, that music is not "catchy" or
"pretty" enough, so why should it be considered?" Of course there is
and has been the other side of the coin. The ultra pseudo-sophisticated
technology, pseudo-ultra abstraction folks listening to their own and
their colleagues works since no one else will. Finding solace in their
schematics, diagrams, algorithms, software and hardware, rather than
in their music. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point
of view), to some extent the post-modern aesthetic climate has more
or less diminished their relevance (except amongst themselves)
although one never knows when the next "New pseudo-ultra
abstraction" movement will flare up.
But let's be honest, an individual with some real imagination and craft
can create a work of Art whether it be by using total serialization,
chance procedures, minimalism, a neo-Strauss, neo-ethnic, avante-
garde jazz aesthetic or whatever. The problem is not necessarily in the
style or procedure, but rather by the fact that many composers feel that
the style or procedure that they employ validates what they do,
whether what they create in that style has anything to say musically.
How many times can people write works based on 4'33" or Pierrot
Lunaire? Not many, given that the original version just about said it
all, conceptually and otherwise.
What is lacking in American Art Music? Auto criticism. It doesn't

exist. Why? Because a great many of the composers that I am citing
have been brought up in a period of time where you're okay and I'm
okay and everything is great. We are all just great artists. We can all
do whatever we want, no matter how bad. None of these composers
ever ask themselves if what they do has any merit or benefit. Some
basically just did what they had to do to finish graduate school and
once they got out, kept doing it. For others it was rebel against what
they were doing in graduate school, now that post-modern times are
here, let's let it all go and Rock and Roll no matter how bad the result
may be. Others were having post-modernist fun by letting it go before
they graduated. How many of my colleagues and their students have
ever tried to detach themselves from their work objectively and
rigorously critique it? Few at best and as a result we are all suffering.
To add to the confusion in post-modern times, a tango, a rock tune,

and a Mozart symphony are all the same. Music is Music everyone
says (I'm okay, you're okay). Very few stopped to consider that Art
music may be different due to something other than stylistic
considerations. People stopped asking themselves what is Art (not an
easy question) and decided to take the easy route and say it's all the
same. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rap tunes, Hip Hop,
Stravinsky, Wynton Marsalis, Cage, Hootie and the Blowfish, the Art
Ensemble of Chicago-it's all the same. Let's all just write nice tunes.
Well friends, I am afraid that it is not all the same. Art music has
always been more abstract and challenging than functional music. It is
not entertainment, although many would like to market it as such, and
those that can't take this fact should get out of the business and focus
on writing arrangements for the Boston Pops (if they have the chops).
Just like Michael Crichton is not James Joyce, neither is listening to
Madonna like listening to Webern, and we as educators are guilty of
not dealing with this and/or challenging our students and ourselves
with these notions. Is it better?
Are apples better than oranges? Probably not, but how many of my
colleagues have discussed these questions with the faculty teaching
music appreciation at their university? From the papers and
presentations I hear around the country relative to this issue, not
many. Elvis and Varese it's all the same. Morty would have loved it
(in fact Morty would have said we need more lame uneducated
composers like the mediocre majority that exist today so his work
would stand out even more).
So, as we head for the twenty first Century, what is in store? More
mediocrity I am afraid. Until composers find a way to be auto critical
and universities find a way to limit the number of student composers
they take in and graduate (and base this on quality and not numbers), I
am afraid that the current state will continue. The word "composer" in
the twenty first century will not mean very much given the current
trend (not that it means much today). There just is not enough of a
need for 20,000-30,000 composers of Art music in the US, especially
when the majority have nothing to say and the US as a country is not
interested in supporting the Arts. It will take a truly concerted effort
by teachers to really think about quality and, if they can, overcome
their own shortcomings.
The greatest thing I received from the composers that had an impact
on my own musical consciousness was the importance of self-
criticism and the great responsibility that the creation of Art brings
with it. Hopefully, this trend will "flare up" somewhere in the future.
[LMJ]
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Motto:
“We can reduce all to numbers,
including Beethoven’s music. But we do
not hear numbers, we hear music”.
Pierre Schaeffer
Chapter 1
Link between music and mathematical sciences
– always present and proved since Antiquity
The topic of the relation between music (the art of sounds) and exact
sciences is more and more complex in the light of the achievement of
20th century music. Today, the new computer technique and the
electronic devices are intensely present both in the composition act and
in the interpretation and the understanding of the works of art. Until
reaching this level, music had always relations with the sciences, which
were present at an organic level. The perception of the contacts between
the two domains, with their positions, can only enrich the act of creation.
A decline in this act is present when the inspiration is missing, when
fantasy and lyricism are incomplete and when there intervene (out of
snobbism) a search for new laws in composition, other than the ones
specific to the art, whose final goal is the esthetic category of the
beautiful.
The music-mathematical sciences relationship was present early in
Antiquity and was emphasized by a large number of Greek authors:
Pythagoras of Samos (centuries 4-5 BC), Aristoxenos of Tarentum (4th
century BC), Plato (centuries 4-5 BC), Aristotle (4th century BC),
Vitruvius Pollio (1st century BC). During the Middle Ages, the art of
sounds was considered an important subject in education, next to the
other sciences of the Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, music and

astronomy. Severinus Boethius (475-524 AC), Leonardo Fibonacci
(centuries 12-13), Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590), René Descartes
(Cartesius) (1596-1650), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Herman
con Helmholz (1821-1892) are some of the significant authors for Middle
Age, Renaissance and Modern times, who conducted research on the
everpresent connection between music and mathematics, as it was known
from philosophy and from artistic output. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
(1646-1716) wrote: “music is an exercise of covert arithmetic and the
one who devotes himself to it is not aware of the fact that he is handling
numbers.”
From the above-mentioned authors I kept the following assertions,
which I considered the most significant:
a) From Pythagoras – the Pythagorean concept of acoustics

and the theory of figured numbers (triangular numbers,
square and rectangle numbers, applicable in modal
structures)
b) From Plato – his discoveries of “the golden ratio” and on

the heterophonic mode (this acoustic mode is constructed on
the proportions of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 9, 8, 27 and
represents the harmony of the universe)
c) From Aristotle – the philosophical implications on the

relation music-mathematics (through the classification he
proposes inside the sciences: theoretical sciences, practical
sciences and poetical sciences). Music, together with poetry
and architecture is in the poetical sciences group.
d) Aristoxenos of Tarentum (considered the greatest

musician of Antiquity) was also interested in the relation
between the art of sounds and mathematics in his studies on
acoustics, researching micro-intervals.
e) From Vitruvius Pollio I took the idea of symmetry of

form, his theory of the tetrachords (diatonic, chromatic and
enharmonic tetrachords), the relationship between theatrical
acoustical ceramic and the tetrachords systems.
f) Leonardo Fibonacci left mankind an interesting arithmetic

equivalent of the “golden ratio” in the law of organic growth
and the law of Fibonacci series.
g) Gioseffo Zarlino, important theoretician from the

Renaissance, was preoccupied by the acoustic non-tempered
standards and by the definition of the major and minor
scales.
h) Acoustical studies were made by René Descartes
(Cartesius) too, who looked on music aesthetics in

concordance with acoustics and music psychology.
i) Jean Philippe Rameau, an important theoretician, was

considered the founder of classical harmony concepts
j) The relationship between music and mathematical

sciences was studied by Hermann von Helmholz too, who
focused on the theory of physiology and acoustics of music;
in his opinion the musical “harmony“ (the consonances)
creates continuous excitations and the dissonances
discontinue excitations.
The evolution of this strong connection between music and science

and its particularity according to historical periods is the result of
continuous research, which in the 20th century developed into several
aspects connected to the investigation of the artistic conception act, to the
understanding of the works of art, to modern analytic methods. In the
20th century there were some artistic styles which emphasized this
connection (perhaps, some times, not in favor of the lyric expression of
the artistic message): 12 tone music, serial music, atonal music,
stochastic music, random music, minimal music, repetitive music etc.
Musical instruments developed very much, according to the technical and
scientific evolution, next to the traditional sources using electronic
devices and computers. From the aesthetics point of view, semiotic and
semantic theories determined the development of quite an industry of
explanations of the role of graphic sign and of the sound signal,
explanations that are interesting to some extent, but which cannot get
inside the profound mechanism of artistic creation and cannot establish
precise rules of how to compose. The relationship between music and the
exact sciences must not have a forced effect, coming from outside human
creativity. In this line, I express some reserve towards those styles and
those composers which have no talent to create a lyric expression and
which transforms the art of sounds into a master craft of mixing
uninteresting frequencies and rhythmic impulses, without coming to
something expressive and clearly constructed.
I see expressiveness and the national character of the music as being two
essential and eternal coordinates of any work of art, regardless the
historic moment when it was created. In my opinion, the presence of
rigor in the construction of music is capable on generating beautiful
music even in this century, when technology competes with the
sentiment; so the rigor of construction is not a characteristic of the ugly
and anti-human music only. In fact, from another angle, my interest is
directed toward a plea for the presence of consonance in music, this
being not an old-fashioned concept, but an essential way of expressing
the harmony, the beautiful, the light, the most beautiful arithmetic
relations which human intelligence can produce, of expressing the human
soul and spirit.
Chapter 2
The magical squares and their presence in music
A. Definition of the magical square
We call “magical square” a square of numbers where there are n2
numbers, aligned consecutively or not, so the sum of the numbers placed
on each of the two diagonal lines is equal to the sum of the numbers on
each column or row. This constant sum is named ”the magical number”
of the square.
B. History of the magic square

Astrologists of Antiquity, for instance the Chinese, in the 7th century
BC, then the Arabs, were building talismans to which they were giving
magical powers. These squares were popular in Europe in the
Renaissance – for instance Albrecht Dürer, in his painting The
Melancholy, painted a magic square with the magic number 34. In the
same period (14th century) the Greek mathematician, Manuel
Moscopoulos wrote about the magical squares, which he named
arithmetic squares (“tetragonon arithmon”). He was first to present a
general method of building a square of odd squares and double even
squares. The issue of magical squares, seen as arithmetic fun, became a
delight during those times, being of interest to great mathematicians like
Euler or like Benjamin Franklin. Magical squares remain an attractive
domain until our day, without the magical attribute, of course.
C. Rules of making magical squares

The odd magical squares may be made following the method of
Bachet de Méziriac, who published in 1612 the book “Nice and
delightful problems which may be solved by numbers”, or following the
method of Philippe de la Hire (1700).
D. Applications in music of the odd magical

squares
Those arithmetic squares can be used in music, their numeral
equivalence creating very interesting modal systems, frequently used by
composers, during the centuries.
If we connect an interval to each figure, in ascendant order, starting with

the semitone, we can trace the following parallelism:
In this chapter, I presented a demonstration of modes applicable to the

arithmetic squares of the 3,5,7,9 order and to the square named
“hypermagical square”, from which results constant rules of forming
chords:
1) The reading of the figures in rows gets the intervallic sum

of the 2 diagonal lines.
2) The reading of the figures in columns gets the result of the

substraction of the 2 diagonal lines
3) Both the chords in rows and in lines are disposed

symmetrically
4) There is a symmetry also in the plan of the modal

structures
5) Each arithmetic square presents 2 intervallic constants of

the 2 diagonal lines, by which the whole modal system may
be built, which will have as symmetrical axes the numeric
correspondence given by its “magical sum.”
6) The system may be repeated indefinitely and is applicable

also to arithmetic squares made of random figures
Making a numeric equivalence in the plan of durations too,

there will often appear rhythmic imitation structures, both
when reading rows and columns.
Example:
The square of the 5th order used for rhythmic structures, with the basic value of
the 16th note.
Horizontal reading (rows)
Vertical reading (columns)
Chapter 3
The relationship between musical forms and
geometric forms
“In art everything is made up after three
fundamental geometrical forms: sphere,
cube, and cylinder. You have to learn to
draw those very simple forms, and
afterwards you can draw whatever you
want.”
Paul Cézanne
The music-mathematical sciences relationship has always been present and

proved since Antiquity not only in acoustics but also in the field of musical
architecture. Making musical forms often has to do with geometrical forms. It
was not incidentally said that music is an architecture which evolves in time.
This relation may be seen and proved from various angles, which seems to have
been fundamental during the ages.
A. The relation between the five solids of Plato and

musical form
The five convex regular solids (three-dimensional geometrical shapes) are:
the tetrahedron, the hexahedron (the cube), the octahedron, the dodecahedron
and the icosahedron. What can be the link between the shape of a musical
construction (form) and those Plato solids? It exists organically, can be proven,
and one can show the close connection between space geometrical thinking and
musical creative thinking. It is a known fact that in the art of sounds there are
few fundamental construction schemes, which have generated over the
centuries various specific forms and genres like
A (single-part form)
AB (binary form)
ABA (the ternary form)
AAB or ABB (bar-form)
ABACABA (rondo-form)
If we associate the above-mentioned regular tetrahedrons with the reading of a

mathematic Hamiltonian circuit, we will have succeeded in discovering the
presence of musical construction schemes used in all styles. The basic circuit
imagined by Hamilton on a regular polyhedron is the one which forms a closed
circuit, along the edges, passing only once through each peak.
1) If this circuit is made along the edges of a hexahedron (cube),

having the coordinates A, B and C, the road to be taken is
ABACABA, which is the classical rondo-form.
2) Following the same principle, the relationship between a

tetrahedron and musical architecture generates the scheme ABA or
AAB (bar-form)
3) Reading by the same rules, an octahedron develops the

following musical pattern: ABBBA or ABCBA.
4) The relationship between musical form and the dodecahedron

(considered the measure of the Universe) is a unit: A.
5) The icosahedron, consisting of 20 equilateral triangles will

suggest a mono-part form also, replicable to infinity: A.
Concluding, we may observe that:
a) the octahedron and the hexahedron are 2 Plato solids which

generate musical forms of the same family (ABCBA or
ABACABA)
b) the icosahedron and the dodecahedron give the same musical

pattern (A)
c) the tetrahedron has a unique form (AAB or ABB)
B. The relation of symmetry present in sounds

architecture Symmetry is an essential coordinate in composition and a
rigorous geometric concept. Both in geometry and music there are several types
of symmetry:
1) Bilateral symmetry (plane symmetry) – which exists in music in

palindrome canons in which the melody which imitates is the
recurrence of the first melody. Many composers, among them
Joseph Haydn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven,
Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg etc., used this
kind of schemes for obtaining effects in counterpoint.
2) Translational symmetry. This can be of two kinds:
a) rhythmical translation symmetry
b) cylindrical translation symmetry
Both types are used in music, in various composition processes.

For instance, rhythmical translational symmetry (of infinite ratio)
can be frequently found in all repetitive music, and cylindrical
translational symmetry (of finite ratio) is present in the typology
model – sequence –cadenza.
3) Plane rotating symmetry. This can be of two kinds:
c) rotating cyclic symmetry (rotation without

reflection)
d) rotating dihedral symmetry (with reflection)
The rotating cyclic symmetry has equivalence in musical composition in the

articulation of the architecture, a characteristic example being the exposition of
the fugue. The musical equivalent of the dihedral rotation may be considered
the palindrome type structures, transposed n times.
4) Rotating symmetry in space. This can be of three kinds:
e) symmetry made of a rotation in plane and an

orthogonal translation in plane
f) symmetry made of a rotation in plane accompanied

by dilatation
g) symmetry made of a rotation, a translation and a

dilatation
All these kinds of rotating symmetries are frequently used in the musical
creation process. The Theme and variations form clearly belongs to the
typology of rotating symmetry with translation and dilatation in space because

the periodic replay of an initial theme asks for a cyclic re-evaluation, and its
more and more ornamented shape suggests a dilatation of this symmetry.
C. Structural rhythm – dynamic symmetry –

logarithmic spiral
In musical scores, rhythm is present both as a succession of equal or
different values and as a succession of structures, which ends uniformly or
asymmetrical in the fields of an architectural configuration. Musical forms in
their articulation, both at the micro-structural and macro-structural levels,
present somewhat interior symmetries, which by their continuous projection
during the piece suggests the existence of a logarithmical spiral. Structural
cadenzas in musical language may be grouped on binary or ternary periodicity
bases, which are present both at the level of primary configurations and at the
level of large surfaces. The archetype of construction model-sequence-cadenza
is also a translation of the logarithmical spiral from geometry to the art of
sounds. The structural binary and ternary rhythms present in music, generated
some typologies of architectural organic articulation such as the verse-rhythm
relationship established early in Antiquity two large groups of rhythms:
dissyllabic and trisyllabic.
Therefore, the structural binary rhythms may have their roots in the antic
rhythms of spondees ( ) and pyrrhic ( ), and the structural ternary
rhythms in the antic rhythms of the dactyls ( ), anapests ( ) and
amphibrach
( ). Also, the rhythms molos ( ) and tribrachic ( ) may
be found in music, but their uniformity converge more towards static cadenzas.
The rhythm anapest ( ) presents 2 short values and a third long value.
This sequence is identical to the architectonic form AAB which I mentioned
before regarding the relationship between Platonic solids and musical
architecture and regarding the typology model-sequence-cadenza. Cornel
Ailincăi, in his book “Introduction to the grammar of the visual language”
concludes: „If we think of rhythm in the most general meaning, its existence
requires a continuous, uninterrupted movement of extension (the Greek word
rhythmos comes from reo – to flow), but at the same time requires a division of
the infinite extension in periods to be repeated by a rule. Therefore, rhythm is
different from ordinary movement by a succession of phases whose
discontinuity ensures the reconstruction of the movement”.
Chapter 4
The relation between the mosaic and musical
architecture
Geometrically, the mosaic is built up of pre-defined elements, like squares,
rhombs or triangles. Inside the mosaic one can make original shapes, using
various combinations of the above mentioned elements. Mosaic has been

frequently used since Antiquity in the decorative arts, using its fundamental
elements which made an homogeneous field paved with squares, equilateral
triangles and hexagons. The Romans, the Persians, the Chinese, and the
Japanese were masters of ornamentation, and they made all kinds of mosaic
surfaces, using repeated elements.
The mosaic may be used in music architecture, at the micro-structural level,

as well as at the macro-structural level. It can be found, for instance, in the
technique of collage where music entities apparently dissimilar may give,
together, a nice ensemble impression. We can take Gustav Mahler’s
symphonies as a characteristic example of this. Also, we can easily disclose
mosaic in the juxtaposing of micro-forms, differently repeated in two
dimensions. For this, the typical example is the passacaglia form. Here we meet
the phenomenon of figure – background, where the perception discovers two
simultaneous aspects of the same image. One is the background, the rhythm
and the melody of the passacaglia, which remains unchanged, which forms the
homogeneous pavement, and the other is the figure, built up of different
polyphonic variations, laid over the background.
The ostinato form (which may have found its equivalent in mosaic
decoration) is frequently found in music. Among the famous examples there are
the 32nd C minor Beethoven variations, the 4th Hindemith string quartet op. 32
(last movement), the 3rd Bartok quartet (first movement), J. S. Bach’s
Crucifixus from the D minor Mass, D. Buxtehude’s E minor Ciaccona for solo
organ, M. Reger’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue for 2 pianos op. 96, J.
Brahms’ Variations on a Haydn theme op 56a (last movement) and his 4th
Symphony (last movement), I. Strawinski’s Psalms symphony, A. Webern’s
Passacaglia op. 1 for orchestra, A. Honegger’s Pacific 231 etc.
Chapter 5
A. The notation of the “parlando rubato” sections
used in my own compositions
Around 1977-78, when I elaborated Incantations I and II, inspired by
manuscripts of Filothei Sin Agăi Jipei, which I analyzed, focusing on their
rhythmic and temporal aspect, I was more and more preoccupied with finding a
more rigorous way of writing what we call “parlando rubato”. It may seem
strange to want to write exactly a “parlando rubato” music, but I wanted to
create a type of music consisting of rhythmical configurations at the micro-
structural level, to be used by each of the interpreters, so that each concert
variant is as close to my psychological tempo and, especially, to the refined
waves I imagined in the creational process. I used the first attempts of this kind
in the cycle Incantations, and after I introduced that writing with consistency in
all slow tempo music that followed (3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies, the
Concerto for flute, viola and chamber orchestra, opera The Snow Queen, ballet
The Little Mermaid, the Concerto for strings etc.), this writing is nowadays a
constant method of imagining rhythmic rows for various texts or polyphonic
layers (some technique may be applied also in homophonic music).
Starting from the well-known Fibonacci series (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 etc.),

including its translations (like 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47 or 0, 2, 2, 4, 6, 10, 16,
26, 42, 60 etc. or 0, 3, 3, 6, 9, 15, 24, 39 etc. or 1, 4, 5, 9, 14, 23, 37) I started to
imagine various non-demoting series applied to a time unit (for example the
quarter note) and to its equal divisions in 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Those rhythmic
structures resulting from the use of non-demoting, above-mentioned partitions
present some constant characteristics:
1. Each configuration has a certain phrasing, both at the micro-

structural and macro-structural levels, given by the sum of the
terms used in those series
2. The usage of simultaneous series (Fibonacci’s series

translations) may give the same pattern on the vertical plane
(regardless of the subdivision of the main unit), if sum of the terms
is the same
Example: the superposing of the series 3, 2, 3, 1, 3, 2,

3, 1 … and 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 3, 14, …
3+2+3+1=9
1+3+1+4=9
3. It becomes clear that by applying Fibonacci series to 5, 6, 7 etc.,

equal impulses subdivisions of the main value, the result is
rhythmic structures with refined waving, which are not always
very strict (especially if they are used in combinations, like
quintuplet and sextuplet); but if they are written in this technique,
they may become a pattern to which each interpretation is close,
with no major difference from the initial structure had in mind by
the composer.
4. The Fibonacci series is the most pure type of the two-beat

accumulational series, but the infinite reproduction of the initial
series is the Pascal triangle, the richest diagram in algebric and
geometric properties. This diagram includes figurative numbers
series – triangular, tetrahedric, pentagonal etc., often present in the
rhythmic configuration of musical pieces.
B. The notation of some rhythmic structures based

on the accumulational series of triangular numbers.
The series of the triangular numbers is 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 36, 45 etc. From
their various combinations (taken in row or by one, two or several leaps), by
their application to various basic time units or to subdivisions of these units, by
their use in various partitions of non-demoting series, one can creat endless
rhythmic combinations. These rhythmic structures always have the same
invariable, which is the sum of the terms used in the numeric loops gives
always the periodicity of the rhythmic figures at the micro-structural or macro-
structural level. This phenomenon may be the explanation of the frequent
assertion of the musicologists that “micro-structure generates macro-structure.”
Example:
The periodicity is of 20 impulses (1+3+6+10=20)
Example of notation of rhythmic structures based on Fibonacci series numbers:
Liana Alexandra – 3rd Symphony, Editura muzicala, 1985, 2nd movement,

page 69.
Chapter 6
Epilogue
The complex relations between the art of sounds and mathematic sciences
which I tried to investigate in this study and to demonstrate in musical
examples, with which creative thinking operates frequently, may define, to a
certain extent, the rational aspect of artistic creation. But in addition to these
investigations and demonstrations there must always be inspiration, the
ineffable aspect of human creativity, which constantly provides connexions and
original ways of expressing the beautiful in art. Together with the intellect,
inspiration is that which gives aesthetic value to a work of art. When
inspiration is not present, one may produce abstract schemes, inventive charts,
and scholarly written explanations, but these totally lacking that warmth
specific to any creative act.
In order to emphasize these assertions, I cited in the final part of my study

some words of wisdom written by great individuals in the history of mankind,
which stress the aesthetic dimension of the work of art, without which no final
product of human fantasy, harmoniously knitted with brainpower, may exist.
These words were written by Democritus, Heracles, Simylus, Plato, Pascal,
Michelangelo, Shakespeare, J. J. Rousseau, Nicolae Iorga, Barbu Ştefănescu
Delavrancea, Tudor Vianu, Arthur Honegger, Anton Webern, George Enescu,
Abraham Moles, P. A. Michelis and Confucius. For this résumé I have chosen
fragments from the ideas of Arthur Honegger, George Enescu and Confucius.
Arthur Honegger:
“Writing music is like putting a ladder without fixing it. With no

scaffolding, a building in construction may stay in place only by a
miracle, a miracle of the internal logic, of an inner sense of proportion. I
am in the same time the architect and the spectator of my works; I work
and I analyze my work…”
George Enescu:
“It is true that music is related with mathematics. But the great
composers were no mathematicians; or, if you like better, they were, but
in an unconscious way. Bach, with his genius, sensed the superior
connection between the fragments of his works. His pieces may disclose
mathematical ratio and proportions, but Bach himself has not created
them by logical, deductive thinking. The composer is a mathematician, or
more precisely, the mathematical spirit dominates him like the profound
intelligence”.
Confucius:
“If you want to know if a country is well governed, you have only to
listen to its music.”
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The Music of
H. Leslie Adams
News Update--
(Thursday, July 31, 2008)
Adams, H. Leslie. "Offertory." In: King of Kings. (Anthology of organ works, Vol. I). Comp. and
James Abbington. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2008.
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2.
Vox Novus &

Max Shea, Martian Gardens

WMUA 91.1 FM
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Chris Pasles of the LA Times writes abo

Rob Voisey and the 60x60 project:
www.calendarlive.com/music
See also: Fly Global Music Culture Mag

written by Anne Cammon:
www.fly.co.uk/fly
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MySpace realm:
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2006 Midwest Minutes includes 60 60-second works by 60 composers:

Count them...sixty (60)
composers
Monroe Golden Sean O'Neill
Aaron Acosta Arthur Gottschalk Thomas Park
Brian Allen Richard Hall Colin Pool
Dwight Ashley James Hegarty Carmel Raz
Jeremy Baguyos Stuart Hinds Steven Ricks
Marita Bolles Lynn Job John Ross
Nils Bultman Cory Kasprzyk Stephen Rush
Nicolas Buron Michael Khoury Bill Ryan
Christopher Cook Gary Knudson David Sartor
David Cubberly HyeKyung Lee Brian Schorn
Lucio Cuellar Patrick Liddell Mozhgan Shahidi
Brad Decker Stan Link Rachel Slusarczyk
Ian Dicke Don Malone Alex Templ
Greg Dixon Charles Norman Mason Balie Todd
Mark Eden Deborah Monroe Joseph Vogel
Timothy Dwight Edwards David Morneau Robert Voisey

Ivan Elezovic Jeff Myers Andrew Walters
Doug Geers David Newby Justin Writer
Scott Gendel Judith Newby Cherilyn Young
Michael P. Geraci Lewis Nielson and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (colle
Michele Gillman
The Opening Concert will also feature [un] wired by Jesse Allison, John Fillwalk and Keith Kothm
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2003 Project premiered:

New York City Premier
UNDER St. Marks
94 Saint Marks Place, between 1st Avenue and Avenue A
basement space, East Village, Manhattan, New York
Composers and their works:
1. Hiromi Abe Guess 01 33. Tom Lopez Moth
2. Aaron Acosta Traffic Under 60 34. Eric Lyon Molten Statues
3. Norman Adams Partial precept 35. Eugene Marlow 48 Rows in One
4. John Allemeier Skrit Minute
5. Nery Pedro Bauer Junior Machine 36. David Evan Mooney Ducks in
#01 Motion
6. Vladimir Beluntsov A minute weight 37. Samy Mousa Papa
7. Charles Berry Passing Gas 38. Marco Oppedisano The End is Near
8. Scot Brickman Signature: Peace 39. Terry Winter Owens Disclavier-Das
9. George Brunner Radio Play Klavier
10. David Campbell The Sputnik Diary 40. Maggi Payne 60 Spin
11. Eliot Carson love hurts 41. Mark Petering Life Cycle
12. David Claman Loomings 42. Gene Pritsker Junk Fragment
13. Andy Cohen rim at x (rat mix) 43. Aaron Rogier Going
14. Douglas Cohen Welcome 44. James Romig Fragment
15. Noah Creshevsky Try 45. Josh Ronsen brkekexkoaxkoax
16. Stephen Decesare Moondance 46. Marianna Rosett Two-Part Invention
17. Derek Devore System Activated
18. Michael Edgerton A Little Watter, 47. Philip Schuellser Peptyde
man Hallucinatione
19. Daniel Eichenbaum Car Accident 48. Coa Schwab Miniature 01
20. Mikado Endo Where am I? 49. Eric Schwartz the electronic music
21. Elaine Fine Imagine Happiness revolution will most certainly
22. Wesley Fuller Aegean blue be televised with the five part harmony,
23. Matias Giuliani Un Siglo, un minuto full orchestration, and all the
24. Gerado Perez Giusti Mini-A-Tura phenomena
25. Gordon Green Birds 50. Andrew Shapiro Coda Piece
26. David Hahn Goo Mee 51. Judith Shatin Glimmerings
27. James Hegarty Reset: 59.5 52. Juan Solare nice noise
28. Norbert Herber Trak News Agency 53. Allen Strange shadow boxer
29. David Evan Jones Writing Out Loud 54. Benjamin Thigpen nous n'avons
30. Michael Kinney One Minute of qu'un espair au monde
listening pleasure 55. Eldad Tsabary Lost-Salvage-Divined
31. Mary Jane Leach Dido Remembered

32. Stan Link Cavatina from an 56. Michael Vernusky The Singularity
Imaginary Opera 57. John Villec Glassbur
58. Robert Voisey ripples in sand
59. Christopher McWard Dance,
Truman, Dance.
60. Dwight Winenger rnd.snd.bas
3.
More about H. Leslie Adams

(There may be some repetition from #1 above.)
Opera North, Pennsylvania's only African American Opera Company, cordially invites you
to "Blake", the second presentation of An African American Triptych on Saturday, April
12th at 8:00 pm, at the Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce Street in Philadelphia.
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BLAKE was given two notable excerpt performances following its VOX Showcase
presentation. On November 7, 2006 THE BLAKE SUITE was featured on the Chamber
Music Live Series at Queens College, Flushing New York, and on January 3, 2007 at the
Schomburg Center in New York City. The latter presentation, by Avava Artists, was the
official opening concert for the 52nd Annual Convention of the National Opera Association
Convention.
The opera tells the story of young love, forced separation and the search for true love in the
antebellum South prior to the Civil War. It also depicts the quest for freedom during those
turbulent times in America. The opera, when performed in its entirety, is in four acts with a
running time of about two and a half hours.
Adams' works are increasingly gaining in visibility and audience and critical acclaim. The
composer recently did a week-long residency at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia,
(February, 2007) which culminated in a concert of his art songs and music from a new
drama with music, "Slaves." An all-Adams concert was also presented by the East
Cleveland, Ohio Public Library in the Greg Reese Performing Arts Center (January,
2007). ###
On January 7, 2006 the National Opera Association awarded its Lift Every Voice Legacy
Award to Composer H. Leslie Adams.
The event took place in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the Four Points Hilton Hotel, which hosted
NOA's 51st Annual Convention.
Adams was present to receive the award, and earlier in the week participated in a Panel of
Composers and Impresarios discussing the "Future of Opera in America."
His song group, "Daybirth, " on texts of Joette McDonald, was the topic of a scholarly
paper presented by Gail Robinson, with McDonald also present.
Adams accompanied Robinson on "Lullaby Eternal," a song from "Daybirth" at the paper
presentation and again, at the request of the Convention, as a finale to the final session: a
banquet which featured winners of the vocal competitions held during the convention.
Adams award reads, "The National Opera Association presents this 'Lift Every Voice
Legacy Award' to H. Leslie Adams; January 7, 2006." ###
Maestro Aurelio de la Vega presented an illustrated lecture on his music April
19, 2006, at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies of the
University of Miami, Florida. The title of the lecture is "A Long Musical
Journey." The illustrated lecture was given in connection with an on-going
international celebration of his 80th anniversary. For reservations, phone (305)
284-2822.

I am enclosing the announcement of my solo concert on April 29. Although I have
performed off and on over the past few years, I have not presented a solo concert of my
original music in about 14 years. I decided it was time to share some of my more recent
works in an intimate setting.
The room at Alvas is quite nice. It is a small venue, seating only 60. I hope I can fill it for
this performance!
I have created what I believe to be some interesting works recently. I am especially excited
about the Blue Bridge, a work for MIDI trombone and DVD. The material is the Vincent
Thomas Bridge and its recent lights.
I hope to finish another work for MIDI trombone and DVD, Variations on The Krakow
Fanfare. The material dates back to 1241, and am pleased with the progress I am making
with this piece.
Thanks for letting me share with you information about this event.
Rod Oakes
Original Music for the Trombone and Electronics

April 29, 2006
8:00 PM
Rosalie & Alva's Performance Gallery
1417 W. 8th Street
San Pedro, CA 90732
Ten dollar admission
Tickets and information available at (800) 403- 3447
Irwin Swack's work, "Profiles" for clarinet, violin and cello, was
performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Sat., Mar. 4, at 2:00 p.m.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2006, Verona, New Jersey - Subito Music Corporation has

acquired the catalog of Seesaw Music from the family of the late Raoul Ronson.
Subito will retain the Seesaw name and imprint on the entire catalog, which consists of over
3600 works by more than 300 composers.
Seesaw Music Corporation was founded in New York City by Mr. Ronson in 1964 to create
a place for the serious music being created at the time. Subito President Stephen Culbertson
states: `Seesaw Music was one of the first `print-on-demand` publishers, before that term
became current. There are many works with a long performance history, as well as gems
that we hope to re-introduce to the concert music community. We are pleased to be able to
keep the entire catalog intact and available. We hope to add new works to the catalog as
well as modernize the distribution system by using current technology and adding online
ordering capabilities.`
Acquisition of the Seesaw catalog marks a period of unprecedented growth and expansion
for Subito Music Corporation, which recently assumed distribution for the Subito print
catalog, the CD Sheet Music 2.0 product line, and several other series including Large Print
Music and The Digital Editions.
From its inception in 1980, Subito Music Corporation has been a leader in the concert
music publishing industry. Informed by over 125 years of combined experience, SMC is a
full-service music publisher, featuring a roster of world-class composers among its list of
exclusive artists, and offering typesetting and printing, promotion, rental, sales, distribution
and copyright administration services for composers and publishers. In addition, SMC
consistently identifies creative and practical uses for digital technology, with initiatives
ranging from digital sheet music delivery and short-run print-on-demand capabilities, to its
innovative distribution and promotion agency services and e-commerce functionality.
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Subito Music Corporation

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I have the great pleasure to send You my new composition "Song of Mars", inspired by a
very beautiful, a fantastic picture realized by the NASA in this extraordinary American
mission to Mars. In fact, the background of this music (the "objective" like organ sounds) is
a conversion of the attached "jpg image" to "midi sounds" (with the "MIDImage" software),
and the melody is my "subjective" contribution...
Faithfully Yours,
Dr. Serban NICHIFOR Song of Mars by Dr. Serban Nichifor
(Click the image to audition.)

It gives me great pleasure to send You (on MIDI
file) also a new wonderful composition of Liana
ALEXANDRA : RHYTHMS. I like this music !

Faithfully Yours,
Serban

Reviews about NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE - LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION 2003
(Computer Music from U.S.A., Belgium, Italy, England and Romania), for the Bucharest
magazines "Actualitatea Muzi," (January 2004) and "Observator Cultural" (January 2004).
With our highest regards,

Liana ALEXANDRA & Serban NICHIFOR
Update: February 1, 2004:

I have the pleasure of sending you my compendium "INTRODUCTION TO
COMPUTER MUSIC" - for my course at the National University of Music in Bucharest. In
fact, this is an INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC OF THE UNITED STATES because
Computer Music - this marvelous genre - is 99 % AMERICAN MUSIC !!!
The text is in Romanian, but with numerous English Expressions. In Chapter A
(Chronology), I have inserted some information about you and the your magnificent
LIVING MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Yours faithfully,
Serban NICHIFOR
Note to the reader: email copies of this compendium in Romanian are available from the
webmaster
Jose' Salazar:
Jose' Salazar was presented in concert in New York City at the Weill Recital Hall,
at Carnegie Hall, on March 26, 2006.
Here is the new program of the Composers Colloquium I am organizing at our UNI
since 1996.
With my regards.
Violeta Dinescu
Carl von Ossietzky Universitdt Oldenburg
Fakultdt III
Musik
Kammermusiksaal (A-11)
Ammerldnder Heerstra_e 114-118
Komponisten Colloquium
SS 2003
Musik unserer Zeit
25.4.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann (Oldenburg)

Zur Gleichzeitigkeit verschiedener Musikkulturen
2.5.2003
.00 Uhr -
Peter Machajdmk (Bratislava/Berlin)
23.5.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Juliane Klein (Berlin)

- in Kooperation mit Oh-Ton Oldenburg -
30.5.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Daniel Rothman (LA/USA)

Gast: David Smeyers (Klarinette)
- in Kooperation mit Radio Bremen -
6.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Lars Graugaard (Kopenhagen/Ddnemark)
20.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Peter Schleuning (Oldenburg)

Schleunings Flvtenzirkus.
F|nf Flvten bilden eine Faust: Musikwissenschaft am Limit
27.6.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Insa Oertel: Der Komponist Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

(Chile/Oldenburg)
- Vortrag in Anwesenheit des Komponisten -
Gast: Ljuba Markova (Klavier)
4.7.2003
- 18.00 Uhr -
Mihaela Vosganian (Bukarest/Rumdnien)

und
-20.00 Uhr -
Diana Simon und Rucsandra Popescu (Bukarest)

Gesprdchskonzert
Dear Dwight,
I am very happy to send you information about my new opera premiere in Oldenburg and
also the program of the composer colloquium I am organizing at the UNI since 1996.
With my regards,
Violeta
Info Erindira
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Kleines Haus
Erindira
Kammeroper von Violeta Dinescu nach Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Musikalische Leitung: Eric Solin
Regie: Mascha Pvrzgen
Ausstattung: Cordelia Matthes
Erindira: Anja Metzger

Grossmutter: Christina Ascher
Ulysses: Paul Brady
(sowie Marit Risnes, Ute Biniass, Alwin Kvlblinger, Brian Joyce, Toshihiko Matsui,
Anthony Gardner)
Kartenbestellung
Tel.: 0441 / 2225 111
Fax: 0441 / 2225 221
Sa., 16.11.2002, 20:00 Premiere

Do., 21.11.2002, 20:00
Mi., 04.12.2002, 20:00
Mi., 11.12.2002, 20:00
Sa., 21.12.2002, 20:00
So., 12.01.2003, 20:00
Sa., 18.01.2003, 20:00
Do., 23.01.2003, 20:00
Am Sonntag, 3. November um 17 Uhr findet die Einf|hrung in das St|ck und die
Inszenierung statt.
weitere Information unter www.oldenburg.staatstheater.de
W|stenwind, Orangenduft und Gr|nes Blut ERENDIRA Oper von Violeta Dinescu nach
einer Novelle von Gabriel G. Marquez
B|hnenbild-Detail
Eine phantastische Novelle voller poetischer Bilder und magischer Anspielungen bildet die
Vorlage f|r eine Oper mit einer zwischen Realitdt und Traumwelt oszillierenden Handlung.
Magische Rdume aus s|damerikanischen Bilderwelten werden beschworen. Die Musik des
Kammerorchesters bildet eine eigene Welt. Sie bebildert die Handlung nicht, sondern spinnt
selber verschiedene Handlungsstrdnge fort. Sie symbolisiert das ;Unterwegs-Sein+ von
Erindira, ihr Suchen und die Offenheit des Endes. ;Der Klangraum meiner Musik verdndert
sich stdndig wie Treibsand. Man kann in ihm versinken, wenn man selbst nicht schnell
genug ist.+ (Violeta Dinescu) Eine Musik, die nicht der Untermalung dient, sondern die der
Magie der Geschichte eine eigene, poetische Ebene hinzuf|gt.
Premiere
16.11.2002
20.00 Uhr
Kleines Haus
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EMIT
www.emitseries.org
mansond@email.spjc.cc.fl.us
Vivian Adelberg Rudow's full orchestra music SPIRIT OF AMERICA was premiered
on Friday, July 12, 2002, 7:00 PM performed by the Chesapeake Orchestra, Jeffrey
Silberschlag conductor, during a FREE River Concert Series at St. Mary's College, St.
Mary's City, Maryland.
Adelberg Rudow and friends conducted in the audience during audience participation
sections of SPIRIT OF AMERICA.
The River Concert Series, a set of festive high quality outdoor concerts, draws
approximately 4,000 people per concert. The variety of styles of music professionally
performed, good food, the beautiful waterfront setting, create a unique music experience.
For more information about the River Concert Festival and directions, see the web site:
www.smcm.edu/rcs
For more information from the composer: phone 410-889-3939, E-mail:
VivianAR@jhu.edu
Liana Alexandra's paper on the Living Music Foundation, presented on Friday, 5

April 2002, at the National University of Music of Bucharest on the occasion of their
annual festival of the faculty of Composition, Musicology, and Pedagogie was well-
received and will be published in a cultural review to be reproduced in part here.
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:46 PM

Subject: "Living Music" by Liana Alexandra
Dear Sir,
I have the honour to present my article intitled "Living Music" published at the review
OBSERVATOR CULTURAL this week (nr.114). You can see this article on
www.observatorcultural.ro
Sincerely yours,
Liana Alexandra lianaalexandra@pcnet.ro
Member News - Joseph Pehrson - 4/01/08
The Composers Concordance would like to announce a new video on YouTube by our
co-director, Joseph Pehrson.
YouTube
It's a piece called "Spinner" and it is here shown at the Moscow Composers' Union. The
piece is for clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello (2007) and it was also performed in Moscow
as part of the "Jurgenson Salon" on March 22, 2008.
Performers are Alexander Filatov, clarinet, Sergei Grashchenkov, bassoon, Anastasia

Ponochevnaya, viola and Lydia Zinchenko, cello...
Joseph Pehrson recently had two performances of his Spectral Harmony for saxophone
and French horn by Jean Luc Darbellay's group, the "Spectral Ensemble" in Bern
Switzerland and Mulhouse, France March 15 and March 17, 2002.
In addition, his work Three Pianopieces will be performed by pianist Jeffrey Jacob, of
George Crumb notoreity at New York University on April 29, 2002 at Loewe Theatre. Mr.
Jacob will also be recording the piece commercially this Summer.
Two additional pieces by Pehrson will be featured this Spring which use electronics and
which are in unusual tuning systems. On Saturday, May 25th, 2002 Pehrson's Blackjack for
trombone and electronics in the just intonation "Blackjack" scale will be played by Chris
Washburne, trombone on Johnny Reinhard's American Festival of Microtonal Music at the
Roulette performance space in New York.
The Composers Concordance will be presenting another unusual work in an alternate

tuning for viola and electronics on Thursday, May 30, 2002 with Olivia Koppell, viola.
In addition to these concert works, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre is presenting

Shakespeare's The Tempest using Pehrson's music, and his arrangements of Renaissance
"standards" in a run from April 17, 2002 through May 12, 2002. This is the second time this
theatre company has presented The Tempest with Pehrson's music.
Serban Nichifor presented a recital of Solo Cello music during the International Festival
NEW MUSIC WEEK in Bucharest, Romania, held in May 2002.
"LIVING MUSIC FOR CELLO"

- Interferente Romano-Americane -
(Serban NICHIFOR - cello)
The program consisted exclusively of music by American and Romanian members

of The Living Music Foundation:
Dwight WINENGER (USA): "Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes"
pentru violoncel solo (p.a.)
Liana ALEXANDRA: "Incantatii III" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica
(p.a.a.)
Charles Norman MASON (USA): "The Artist and His Model"
pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.)
Serban NICHIFOR: "Isihia II" pentru violoncel si banda magnetica (p.a.a.)
Rodney OAKES (USA): "Fantasy for Cello & Electronics" (p.a.)
Cellist Craig Hultgren performed a solo program of seven world premieres on a Nov.
18th, 2001 program for Artburst at the Unitarian Church of Birmingham, Alabama.
This contemporary performance featured both acoustic and electronic works created for
him. The works cover a broad panorama of visions and voices from the last three years
surrounding the change of the century.
H7yx a for cello, speaking cellist & tape by Sherban Nichifor (Roumania)
Only Four for solo cello by Charles Knox (Atlanta)
After Hours for violoncello & tape by Kurt Carpenter (Sterritt, AL)
Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes for solo cello by Dwight Winenger
(California)
The Ninth Wave for cello & computer generated tape by Robert Scott Thompson
(Atlanta)
Lavender Slumber for solo cello by Andy Delikat (Birmingham)
Waltzes for Capone for cello & digital electronics by Matthew Marth (Olympia, WA)
The concert was an enormous success as testified to by the following review:
Birmingham News/Today
Entertainment News
Hultgren uses novel cello to set surrealistic tone

11/20/01
MICHAEL HUEBNER
News staff writer
Artburst's challenging season of cutting-edge music, dance and theater continued Sunday night at
the Unitarian Universalist Church. Cellist Craig Hultgren, Birmingham's leading cultivator of new
music, provided the acoustic and electronic instruments. Seven composers furnished the
compositions, most of which were world premieres.
Hultgren has networked widely in his quest for innovative music, and for this concert he came up
with some gems. Starting off with Robert Scott Thompson's "The Ninth Wave," Hultgren unveiled
his new electronic cello a bodyless stick figure of an instrument that he used to great effect
accompanying a bed of ghostly sound masses from the two speakers flanking him. Distant voices
and seascapes echoed through the hall in a vaguely melodic, thoroughly engaging framework.
Romanian composer Serban Nichifor's "Hyxía" is steeped in ritual, the cello and vocals (the cellist
is required to sing in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English), successfully bridging Eastern orthodoxy
and Western Christianity through an evocative array of pre-recorded sounds and cello harmonics.
For "After Hours," Kurt Carpenter resurrected an analog tape piece from the days when Moog, Arp
and Buchla synthesizers ruled the avant-garde, and wrote a cello part for it.
The juxtaposition of the live instrument with the synthesized whistles, bird calls and random bloops
and bleeps worked surprisingly well. Hultgren mimicked, cajoled and otherwise provided a spirited
accompaniment.
Matthew Marth's provocative "Waltzes for Capone," for cello and digital electronics, was the
evening's most tantalizing and technically advanced composition. Crystalline bell tones and quotes
from Strauss waltzes set the taped background for the work, which explored the warped psyche of
the notorious gangster. The result was a surrealistic, sometimes naive and bizarre dialogue with the
live instrument.
Of the three pieces for solo acoustic cello, two lacked the flare of the electronic works. The
exception came from Dwight Winenger, whose Structural Variations on Two Obscure Themes
delighted with its inventive and playful reminiscences on the Pink Panther theme and the hymn "Red
and Yellow, Black and White."
The Calendar for New Music, published monthy by The SoundArt Foundation, Inc.
William Hellerman, Editor
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February, 2001.
Cordially,
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8. The 60x60 Canadian Mix launches this weekend!

An alternate 60x60 mix of Canadian composers lead by Eldad Tsabary is debuting this
weekend in Toronto and Halifax, Canada
"60x60 was initiated in 2003 and his since grown into one of the planet's most coveted
contemporary music events.... its success can be explained by the sheer wealth of different
approaches on display and its capacity of organically integrating them underneath the roof of
"New music". It is important to note that there is not one definitive version of the piece, as
different regional mixes cohabitate with the all-encompassing international mix.
- 60x60: Wellington welcomes New Music's fastest-ticking clock By Tobias Fischer,

published 2008-09-01
Saturday October 4th 4:00 AM,

Nuit Blanche, Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building,
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
www.utoronto.ca/tmu_dpatr/DejaPresqueJamais.pdf
and
Sunday October 5th 7:30 PM,

Oscillations,
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery,
http://www.dwightwinenger.net/journalxb.htm 08.10.2008
Halifax NS
www.oscillationsfestival.ca
Canadian composers included in 60x60 (Canadian mix)

Asoma, Zorina Bacchus, Adam Basanta, Sandeep Bhagwati, Adrian Borza, Christian
Calon, David Campbell, Matt Campbell, Raylene Campbell, CDZabu, Gustav Ciamaga,
Patrick Sébastien Coulombe, Ian Crutchley, Dancers, Leslie de Melcher, Debashis Sinha,
Richard Désilets, Francis Dhomont, Nicolas Dion, Patricia L. Dirks, Carey Dodge, The
Dry Heeves, Troy Ducharme, Jean-Michel Dumas, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, François
Girouard, Philip Gosselin, Martin Gotfrit, Tim Hecker, Bryan Jacobs, Bentley Jarvis,
Yota Kobayashi, Shaw-han Liem (I am Robot and Proud), Sylvi macCormac, Florence
Masson, David McCallum, Andra McCartney, Diana McIntosh, Dustin Molicki, Steven
Naylor, Raphaël Néron-Baribeau, David Ogborn, John Oliver, Sean O'Neill, David Parfit,
Lia Pas, Sarah Peebles, Scott Peterson, Michael Pinsonneault, Ambrose Pottie, Hélène
Prévost, Jean Routhier, Frederick Schipizky, Zuzana Sevcikova, Laurence Stevenson,
Nancy Tobin, Roxanne Turcotte, Steve Wadhams, Matthew Wood, Kamen Zenov.
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9. Uncommon Voices!
Music by composers from the Americas and the World
Ten free admission concerts featuring the North/South Chamber Orchestra

and distinguished guest artists
at Christ & St Stephen’s Church (120 W 69th St & #8211; New York
City)
29th Season (1980-2009)
www.northsouthmusic.org
NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE Inc. is pleased to announce plans for

its 2008-09 concert series featuring music by composers from Asia, Europe
and the Americas.
The upcoming season will mark the 29th consecutive year of activities by
this non-profit organization devoted to the promotion, performance and
recording of music by living composers.
Ten free-admission events will be presented at the auditorium of

Christ and St. Stephen’s Church (120 West 69th St) in New York City. The
concerts will feature the acclaimed North/South Chamber Orchestra and

distinguished soloists including Patricia Caicedo and Stela Brandao,
sopranos; Mioi Takeda, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; the
Basso Moderno Duo; Munir Beken, Turkish ud; Lisa Hansen, flute;
Setsuk o Akizawa, oboe; David Krakauer and Richard Goldsmith,
clarinet; Susan Jolle s, harp; Helen Lin, piano; and
pianist/conductor Max Lifchitz.
Recent works by three generations of composers representing diverse

aesthetic orientations and hailing from throughout the US, Argentina,
Brazil, China, Colombia, Greece, Italy, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico,
Spain, Turkey and Venezuela will be performed.
They include: Ofer Ben-Amots, Brian Banks, Dwight B anks,

Elizabeth Bell, Munir Beken, Richard Brooks, Canary Burton, Patrick
Ca stillo, Jordi Cervello, Carson Cooman, Stephen Feigenbaum,
Bernardo Feldman, Daniel Haldar, Lee Hoiby, Nikolas Allen
Jeleniauskas, Dennis Kam, Yoshihiro Kanno, Daniel Kessner, Leo
Kraft, Max Lifchitz, Tudor Dominik Maican, Patri cia Morehead,
David Patterson, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Ned Rorem, Ma nuel Sosa,
Gabriele Vanoni, Rain Worthington, & Stephen Yip.
Many of the featured composers will be present at the concerts to

introduce their music and meet with the public. They will wor k closely with
the musician members of the North/South Consonance Ensemble to insure
befitting performance of their works.
NORTH/SOUTH CONSONANCE's 2008-09 season is made possible in part

with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for these free
admission events is being provided the American Federation of Musicians
(Local 802); the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University; and many
generous individual donors.
For more information about this exciting concert series please visit
www.northsouthmusic.org
10. 60x60 Broadcasts:

The new double album release of the 60x60 project is being aired regularly on WMUA,
WKCR, and WOBC.
Our oldest supporter, Max Shea with his radio program, "Martian Gardens" has been playing
selections of the 60x60 for the past 4 years. He has been playing one or more selections on his
show airing on: WMUA FM 91.1 Amherst, Massachusetts. with web simulcast
at: /www.wmua.org MARTIAN GARDENS is on Sundays 21:00-24:00 Eastern Standard
Time online playlists can be found at: weblogs/martian
Next is Anne Cammon's "Art Waves," a literary radio program, featuring poetry, fiction,
radio drama, and experimental literature. Miss Cammon uses the 60x60 project as refreshing
interludes between the literary works.
"Art Waves" airs on Fridays 9:00-10:00 pm Eastern standard time. Tune in at 89.9 FM or
listen on-line at /www.wkcr.org. Feel free to learn more about WKCR shows at
www.wkcr.org/wkcrarts
Anne Cammon's show airs about once a month, including this Friday October 5th which
features another exciting literary journey combining music and the spoken word. With sizzling
works by Palestinian-American poet Natalie Handal, portraits of Bombay and New York City
by poet Jeet Thayil, a novel-excerpt on the life of a junior cartographer by Reif Larson, and
text-sound adaptation of poems from Anne's collection India Songs, by composer Robert
Voisey. Not including works from the 60x60 (2004-2005) CD.
Most recently 60x60 has been airing on Tom Lopez's "Foldover" airing every Monday from
3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin, Ohio (just outside
of Cleveland). The show can also be heard over the Internet at: www.wobc.org Last Monday he
featured 25 works from the 60x60 project. A web site with information about FOLDOVER can
be found at: www.timara.oberlin.edu It includes playlists and information on how to find
recordings of the music.
I hope you are in the area to tune in to one of these programs or have the time to listen to their
simulcast over the World Wide Web.
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Composers featured in 60x60 (2006 / International Mix) include:

Aaron Acosta David Fenech Serban Nichifor
Liana Alexandra Monroe Golden Rodney Oakes
John Allemeier David Gunn Ronald Parks
Dwight Ashley David Hahn Maggi Payne
Marc Barreca Erdem Helvacioglu Samuel Pluta
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Tony Higgins David Shannon
Gina Biver Stuart Hinds Alan Shockley
James Bohn Lynn Job Scott Smallwood
Marita Bolles Julian Jonker Laurie Spiegel
Ann Cantelow Yasushi Kamata Asha Srinivasan
Nicolas Chausseau Nicole Kim Alex Temple
Andrew Cole Joan La Barbara Balie Todd
Christopher Cook Stan Link Eldad Tsabary
Cindy Cox Don Malone Kubilay Uner

Antonino Cuscina Dylan Mattingly Mark Vernon
Robert Dick Maurilio Cacciatore Katrina Wreede
Ian Dicke Andra McCartney Xiting Yang
Greg Dixon Anastasio Mitropoulos Ivan Zavada
Aaron Drake Annele Nederberg Oded Zehavi
Ivan Elezovic David Newby and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (collective)
Composers featured in 60x60 (2007 / International Mix) include:

Henri Algadafe Risto Holopainen Alex Nadjarov
John Allemeier Alphons Izzo Helen Nattras
Thomas Bailey Michiko Kawagoe Serban Nichifor
Joel-Aime Beauchamp Joelle Khoury Blas Payri
Panayiotis Kokoras John Pitts
Benjamin Boone Gene Pritsker
Monique Buzzarte Gintas Kraptavicius Tim Reed
Adam Caird Stephen B. Rothman
Gregory Chatonsky Sophie Lacaze
Jesse Clark Micky Landau Anne van Schotholst
Cindy Cox Tuan Hung Le
Noah Creshevsky Graziano Lella Laurie Spiegel
David Cutler Meng-chia Lin Ken Steen
Tilman Dehnhard Drake Mabry Oliver Tache
Robert Dick Chris Mann Eldad Tsabary
Andrew Eckel Al Margolis Andrea Vigani
Iris Garrelfs John Maters Daniel Visconti
Thierry Gauthier Christian McCleer Jane Wang
Marcel Gehrman David McIntire Rodney Waschka II
Thomas Gerwin David Morneau Simon Whetham
Tomer Harari Jeff Morris Sabrina Pena Young
Tim Mukherjee
and Cynthia Zaven
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Composers included in 60x60 (2006) International Mix:

Aaron Acosta Rodney Oakes
Liana Alexandra David Fenech Ronald Parks
John Allemeier Monroe Golden Maggi Payne
Dwight Ashley David Gunn Samuel Pluta
Marc Barreca David Hahn David Shannon
Dennis Bathory-Ktitsz Erdem Helvacioglu Alan Shockley
Gina Biver Tony Higgins Scott Smallwood
James Bohn Stuart Hinds Laurie Spiegel
Lynn Job
Marita Bolles Julian Jonker Asha Srinivasan

Ann Cantelow Yasushi Kamata Alex Temple
Nicolas Chausseau Nicole Kim Balie Todd
Andrew Cole Joan La Barbara Eldad Tsabary
Christopher Cook Stan Link Kubilay Uner
Cindy Cox Don Malone Mark Vernon
Antonino Cuscina Dylan Mattingly Katrina Wreede
Robert Dick Maurilio Cacciatore Xiting Yang
Ian Dicke Andra McCartney Ivan Zavada
Greg Dixon Anatasio Mitropoulos Oded Zehavi
Aaron Drake Annele Nederberg and ~chromatik_d_zabu.tmp (collective)
Ivan Elezovic, David Newby
Serban Nichifor
Composers included in 60x60 (2006) New York Minutes Mix:

Sara Ayers Daniel Goode Annea Lockwood
Kenneth Babb Seth Gordon Glenn Marsala
Ernst Bacon Andy Graydon Paula Matthusen
Eve Beglarian Gordon Green Kevin McCoy
Benjamin Bierman Melissa Grey Jordan McLean
Benjamin Bierman Jennifer Griffith Jake Merkin
Jeremiah Bornfield Franz Hackl Christopher North
George Brunner Jeffrey Harrington Frank J. Oteri
Monique Buzzarte Noah Haverkamp Jonathan Pieslak
Doug Cohen Emiko Hayashi Timothy Polashek
Noah Creshevsky Ray Levitt Gene Pritsker
Douglas DaSilva Peter Heller Martin Simon
John de Clef Pineiro Sean Hickey David Snow
Robert Dick Brian & Eugene Kim House Laurie Spiegel
Robert Fanelli Daniel Iglesia Patrick Stacey
Mary Feinsinger Travis Johns Hans Tammen
Roger Fife Richard Kostelanetz Francisco Toro
Roger Fife Briggan Krauss Samuel Tymorek
Jason Freeman Joan La Barbara Robert Voisey
Evan Gallagher Mary Jane Leach Charles Waters
David Gamper John Link David Wolfson
Bob Gluck
Composers in the 60x60 (2004-2005) CD Release:

Riad Abdel-Gawad J.Ryan Garber Richard O'Donnell
Aaron Acosta Douglas Geers Cezary Ostrowski
Liana Alexandra Peter Gilbert Ronald Parks
John Allemeier Robert Gluck Maggi Payne
Lydia Ayers Daniel Goode Alexis Perepelcia
Kenneth Babb Ramón Gorigoitia Mark Petering
Jethro Bagust David Gunn Samuel Pluta
Christopher Bailey Mike Hallenbeck Kevin Ponto
Christian Banasik David Hamill Giuseppe Rapisarda
Greg Bartholomew Pat Hanchet Malcom Rector
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz David Handford Steven Ricks

J.C. Batzner Marihiko Hara Mark Rose
Eve Beglarian Jason Heald Robert Sazdov
Stephen Betts James Hegarty John Schappert
Sandeep Bhagwati Erdem Helvacioglu Heike Schmidt
Benjamin Bierman Mark Henry Jacky Schreiber
John G. Bilotta Dorothy Hindman Alex Shapiro
Jason Bolte Bernard Hughes Martin Simon
Benjamin Boone David Jaggard Adam Sovkoplas
Justin Breame Lynn Job Kenneth Steen
George Brunner Solange Kershaw Paul Steenhuisen
Benedikt Brydern Killick Merivon Jonathan Stone
Paul Burnell KleinSmid Allen Strange
Julian Cartwright Gary Knudson Dirk Johan Stromberg
Elvio Cipollone Igor Korneitchouk Thomas Sutter
David Claman Myroslava Lashkevych Peter Swanzy
Paul Clouvel John Link Peter Swendsen
Douglas Cohen Stan Link Mike Swinchoski
Ray Cole Tom Lopez Piotr Szewczyk
Andrew Cormier Don Malone Norman Teale
Noah Creshevsky Charles Norman Mason Robert Scott Thompson
Lucio Cuellar Mike McFerron Vladimir Tošic
Aaron Drake David McIntire Eldad Tsabary
Moritz Eggert James McWilliam Mike Vernusky
Ivan Elezovic Leslie Melcher Rene Veron
Travis Ellrot James Miley Joseph Vogel
Karlheinz Essl Polly Moller Robert Voisey
Carlo Forlivesi David Mooney Chris Ward
Justin Freeman Serban Nichifor Straiph Wilson
Larry Gaab Julia Norton Katrina Wreede
David Gamper Rodney Oakes
11.
Vox Novus &

"60x60 showcases a wealth of brief, contemporary compositions. There are
no live performances, so you can't really call it a concert. Maybe it would
better be described as a listening party. ... It's like a Whitman's sampler of
the contemporary new music scene. " - Sound Sampler Greg Haymes,
Times Union, Albany New York February 9, 2006
"60x60 features 60 back-to-back pieces that are each under 60 seconds

long, each by a different modern composer. ... It's like channel surfing
through experimental music." Geeta Dayal, Village Voice, New York, New
York March 16-22, 2005 Vol. NO. 11
"... The idea of commissioning sixty pieces each a minute long has elements
of both ingenuity combined with madness: ... A minute can be ample time to
express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds, or it can be a constraint which
forces an artist to isolate what is the most important element of a work. The
point of the project is that it enables an audience to take in and enjoy a cross
section of different approaches to new music within a reasonable duration.
And the purpose of Robert Voisey is to promote new music ..." - Ingenuity
and madness? Malcolm Miller, Music & Vision, London UK December 24,
2005
60 Composers in this year's Pacific Rim Mix include:
Nicholas Baldwin Yuko Hamura Robert Parker

Marc Barreca Jason Heald Maggi Payne
Lembit Beecher Sungji Hong Peggy Polias
John Biggs Jeffrey Hunkin Carlos Rafael Rivera
Betty Breath Celeste Hutchins Stephen C Ruppenthal
Darren Buhr David Evan Jones Simon Munro Rycroft
Brigid Burke Yasushi Kamata Margaret Schedel
Rosalinda Carlson Koji Kawai Jacky Schreiber
Sharon Cheslow Donald Kepple Alex Shapiro
Lut Yun (Lucinda) Chiu Anton Killin Frank Sprague
Foster Clark Nicole Kim Phillip Stearns
Jared Commerer Tuan Hung Le Sarah Taylor
Cindy Cox Cheryl Leonard Kubilay Uner
Michael Dawson James Mason John Villec
A.L. Dentel Beryl Matete Robert Voisey
Aaron Drake Deeann Mathews Shane Watters
Alex Eddington Dylan Mattingly Katrina Wreede
Jessica Gardiner Polly Moller Hajime Yabe
Kara Gibbs Julia Norton Carolyn Yarnell
David Hahn Rodney Oakes and Ivan Zavada
The concert program can be found at the following link:

www.voxnovus.com/60x60/2006_Pacific_Rim_Concert_Program.htm
"60x60 is a one hour listening experience containing 60 works, each 60

seconds or less. Most likely you have never heard music like this before, or
at the very least you haven't heard in a format like this: 60 works varying in
style and aesthetic from today's composers living all around the world. You
will love at least one piece. You will probably hate one piece. But whether
you love or hate what you are listening to, within 60 seconds you will be
listening to something different." - Robert Voisey
Robert Voisey is a composer and impresario of new works; he seeks

innovative and creative approaches to promote the music of today's
composers. Voisey is the Artistic Director of the 60x60 project, the
Composer's Voice concert series, Vice-President of Programs for the Living
Music Foundation and Founder and Director of Vox Novus. 60x60 Project -
California Premier of the 60x60 Pacific Rim Mix
Thursday Night Special @ Mills College 8pm. Ensemble Room, Mills College
5000 Mac Arthur Boulevard Oakland, California < a
href="http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm">www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm
www.mills.edu/maps/campus_map.pdf
Robert Voisey
RobVoisey@VoxNovus.com
Artistic Director of the 60x60 project
Vice-President of Programs, Living Music Foundation
Founder of Vox Novus
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Vice-President of Programs, Living Music Foundation
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The 60x60 project is designed for flexibility for growing and expanding. One of the
missions is to perform as many works possible.
This year we are doing something new. We are picking the participants for our
regional selection of the 60x60 project before the main selection. This year we
received a tremendous number of submissions from the Midwest and immediate
central regions of the United States. We have endeavored to produce a regional
concert for this region in the past and this year we will be able to accomplish this
goal.
Following are the participants in the American Heartland who have been included
in the concert:
Greg Allen, Timothy Flood, Mike McFerron,

J. Anthony Allen, Ryan Garber, David McIntre,
Christopher Bailey, Doug Geers, Michael John Mollo,

Stacey Barelos, John Gibson,
J.C. Batzner, Jacob Gotlib, Laurie Lee Moses,
Robert Berg , Jason Gresl, Michael Murphy,
Michael Berkowski, Mike Hallenbeck, Curt Nordgaard,
James Hegarty, Richard O'Donnell,
Kari Besharse, Norbert Herber, Sean O'Neill,
Timothy Brace, David Heuser, Samuel Pluta,
Pui-Shan Cheung, Dorothy Hindman, Steve Ricks,
Greg Chmura, Gregory Hoepfner, James Romig,
Daniel Clem, Craig Hultgren, Phillip Schroeder,
John Consiglio, Lynn Job, Mozhgan Shahidi,
Zachary Crockett, Kanniks Kannikeswaran, Adam Sovkoplas,
Lucio Cuellar, Thomas Sutter,
Matthew Davidson, Noah Keesecker, Michael Taylor,
Gary Knudson, Fred Tompkins,
John Dribus, Sabin Levi, Mike Vernusky and
Ivan Elezovic, Stan Link, Joseph Vogel
Travis Ellrott, Tom Lopez,
Andrew Estel, Don Malone,
Click the following link for the concert program: Concert_Program_Midwest.htm
(Selections for the International 60x60 coming soon)

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LETTER FROM MOZART

by Michael Colgrass
2006 marks the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Michael
Colgrass' orchestral homage to the great master, LETTER FROM MOZART is a light, colorful piece,
popular with audiences, and a unique and entertaining contribution to the repertoire, based on a fictional
letter to the composer from Wolfgang himself.
Mozart's letter, complete program notes, and selected reviews are below. For perusal scores, recordings,
and more information about Michael Colgrass and LETTER FROM MOZART, please visit
www.brhoadsandassociates.com or www.michaelcolgrass.com.
LETTER FROM MOZART
Dear Michael:
I would like to be your inspiration for a piece of music. I have been watching the development of music
since my time and am especially interested to see how an idea of mine would come out when filtered
through the mind of a twentieth-century composer. Let me give you a typical Austrian-type folk melody
(I'll think up an original one), and you apply to it techniques of contemporary music in any way you like.
Now, you may wonder why I chose you for this task. First, I know I'm your favorite composer and that
counts a great deal with me. Second, you are a percussionist, and one of my secret dreams has always been
to write something for percussion, but in my day it wasn't dignified. But perhaps my primary reason for
choosing you is that your name would have been Migele Colagrossi, had you been born in Italy like your
father. I loved Italy more than any other country.
Getting back to this new piece, may I suggest that it be a work of light quality, not superficial, Mozartian!
Many artists today seem to feel their work must express the age they live in, and cite war, corruption and
crime as reason for creating bitter and angry work. My God, if only you could have experienced some of
the miseries of the age I lived in, disease, oppression, poverty! And corruption! Life wasn't all bad, of
course, and there was much beauty in my age, but so there is in yours, and why not try to capture that
spirit, too?
One last word: don't quote any of my existing music, just use this melody I send you (Goodness, I've
written so many pieces I hope I didn't use this tune and forget having done so!).
Good luck to you, and I hope you have fun with it.
Your friend,
Mozart
PROGRAM NOTES
As the music begins, the "Mozart" tune is played on a piano or a toy piano. The contemporary techniques
that are applied to it in the course of the work are many and varied, but the attentive listener will hear
older, familiar ones too, as the composer meditates and muses on his subject and sometimes transforms it
beyond recognition.
From time to time, small groups of musicians play music of their own in separate ensembles that are
independent of the others. At a particularly complex moment just before the work comes to an end, there
are six separate groups. The score is organized so that two conductors lead all the players through their
parts.
PRESS
"The work is as fanciful as the title, which refers to a fictional letter the composer claims to have received
from the Viennese master, exhorting Colgrass to write a work using a Mozart-like theme. Musically,
Colgrass creates a kaleidoscope effect by embedding a straightforward eight-bar theme on a constantly
shifting aural background. The theme passes from piano to viola to woodwind, but never in its entirety,
and always mocked by the orchestra with frigid sustained chords in the strings, or the virulent sound of an
oompah band, or a sudden explosion of accordion.
"The effect is like watching a Federico Fellini movie set in a freak carnival, faces leering in and out of
focus in the camera, the feral sound of a calliope and human screeches penetrating your ears. Colgrass
deliberately creates an unstable listening experience... A delightful contemporary work."
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First added the : 2011-07-03 Last update : 2011-07-03 11:04:02

NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE

Liana Alexandra-curriculum vitae.

Cehia,Australia,Spain England a.s.o. Liana Alexandra is also the author of the

Prizes and Awards:

„Liana Alexandra‘s music is full of warmth and original melody elements,side by

SERBAN NICHIFOR (Composer)

Chamber-Opera "Talaria" (libretto by Etienne DE SADELEER, 1994); "Medium

NUOVA MUSICA CONSONANTE ANTHOLOGY

- 1.) TON DE LEEUW - Apparences for cello solo (14:34)

- 4.) ROB DU BOIS - Sketch for cello and piano (7:57)

- 1.) MAKOTO SHINOHARA - Evolution for cello solo (14:18)

- 6.) JOJI YUASA - Interpenetration for 2 flutes (6:11)

Adrian Buciu and Toma Dan - flutes

(c) by NMC-LMF (USA), GEMA

(AMERICAN CENTER - BUCHAREST, 14-X-1992)

- 1.) GEORGE GERSHWIN - Prelude for cello and piano (3:04)

- 10.) PAUL BEN-HAIM - Canzona for cello and piano (7:31)

- 1.) LUCIEN POSMAN - 22 for cello solo (5:48)

UNMB (6-XII-1999), American Center (16-X-2001)

- 1.) CHARLES NORMAN MASON - The Artist and His Model

UNMB, 8-III-2003 (concert-tr.13-14); 22

- 1.) SAMUEL WARD (arr.L.A.) - America the Beautiful (2:54)

- 4.) GASPAR CASSADO - Sonata for cello solo (12:10)

- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Fantasia for cello and piano (12:43)

- 1.) LIANA ALEXANDRA - Chant d'amour de la dame à la licorne

the LIVING MUSIC

Liana Alexandra and Serban Nichifor

Video Concerts Video Concerts

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National University of Music Bucharest (Romania),

Prof.Dr. Serban NICHIFOR, National University of Music Bucharest (Romania) -

Selected Works OPERA, SYMPHONIC, VOCAL-SYMPHONIC AND

"Hommage a DEBUSSY" per 2 Pf. - ossia Pf. e Nastro Magnetico (1998)

constitution) et devrait s'integrer au projet d'ecoutes musicales." (Jacques BERLIE)

From: Liana Alexandra

Dear Maestro Dwight Winenger,

It is our great pleasure to send you two of our recent presentations

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Dear Maestro WINENGER,

It is with pleasure we send You the chronicle of our concert

With our best wishes,

Liana ALEXANDRA and Serban NICHIFOR

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CONSONANTE in memoriam 11 Septembrie-

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