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Tertulia: Saving Classical Music: my (unpublished) letter to the NYTimes -
I found a letter I submitted to the NYTimes this past November. It was in response to Les Dreyer’s Invitation to Dialogue: Saving Classical Music. I realized no one except my parents had really read it (and who knows what happened to it after I sent it into the black hole of the NYTimes…
Quartz Safari - Quartz Safari (Fadeaway Tapes)
Jean Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 - Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä (Bis)
Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 “Toltec” - Linz Opera Chorus, Bruckner Orchestra Linz/Dennis Russell Davies (Orange Mountain Music)
Osvaldo Golijov - Oceana - Luciana Souza, Gwinnett Young Singers, Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Robert Spano; Tenebrae - Kronos Quartet; Three Songs - Dawn Upshaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Robert Spano; etc. (Deutsche Grammophon)
Nicolas Flagello - Passion of Martin Luther King - Ezio Flagello, Ambrosian Singers, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Nicolas Flagello; L’Infinito; The Land - Ezio Flagello, I Musici di Firenze/Nicolas Flagello (Naxos Historical)
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam (Nuclear Blast > MOG)
Josh Mason - Timecode Beach (Digitalis > Bandcamp)
Quiet Evenings / Sundrips - split CS (Fadeaway Tapes)
Trabajo - Gamelan to the Love God (Bandcamp)
Gerald Clayton - A Life Forum (Concord Jazz; due April 2)
Elliott Sharp - Errata (Neos)
Elliott Sharp - Rheo-Umbra - Orchestra Carbon (Neos)
David Bowie - The Next Day (ISO/Columbia; due March 12)
Depeche Mode - Delta Machine (Columbia; due March 26)
birds of passage / Je Suis le Petit Chevalier / Motion Sickness of Time Travel / Aloonaluna - Taxidermy of Unicorns (Watery Starve)
Thoughts on Air / Fallen Axe / Knit Prism / Trailing - split 2CS (Fadeaway Tapes)
Brian Green - Milltown (A Giant Fern)
Nodolby - Inception/Aftermath (Field Hymns)
The Cats’ Orchestra / Regular Music - split CS (Field Hymns)
Pierrot Lunaire - This Love of Mine (SicSic)
Digital Natives - The Old Truce (SicSic)
Fluorescent Heights - Vendetta in Paradise (SicSic)
Glass House - Savage Times (SicSic)
Je Suis le Petit Chevalier - Dark Morse (Shelter Press)
Brian Green - learning how to read the map to get there (Bandcamp)
Richard Wagner - Die Walküre - Linda Watson, Edith Haller, Mihoko Fujiamura, Johan Botha, Kwangchul Youn, Albert Dohmen, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Christian Thielemann (Opus Arte)
Kyle Landstra - Sage (Cosmic Winnetou)
Kenneth Hesketh - Dei Destini Incrociati; Aphorisms; Fra Duri Scogli; Three Pieces in the Shape of a Shoe; Theatre of Attractions - Psappha/Nicholas Kok (Psappha)
Thomas Adès - Powder Her Face - Jill Gomez, Valdine Anderson, Niall Morris, Roger Bryson, Almeida Ensemble/Thomas Adès (EMI Classics)
Jonas Kaufmann - Wagner - Orchester der Deutsche Oper Berlin/Donald Runnicles (Decca)
Celer - Dwell in Possibility (Blackest Rainbow > Bandcamp)
Royallen - Allen Classic I (Permanent Nostalgia)
New Future Wanderer - Plaza for Media Conference 92 (Hooker Vision)
Jake Blanchard - Archaic Practices (Feathered Coyote)
Opponents - Thought Control (Baked Tapes)
Long Distance Poison - Rare Human (Baked Tapes)
Headboggle - Backed Tape (Baked Tapes)
Andrew Scott Young - Warm White Light (Baked Tapes)
Dads Against Vietnam - Courage (Baked Tapes)
Grateful Dead - Dave’s Picks, Vol. 5: Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 11/17/73 (Grateful Dead/Rhino)
Celer - Without Retrospect, the Morning (Glacial Moments > Bandcamp)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Jess Thomas, George London, Hans Hotter, Martti Talvela, Gustav Neidlinger, Irene Dalis, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Hans Knappertsbusch (Philips > MOG)
Caroline Park - OTO (Bandcamp)
Ottorino Respighi - Fontane di Roma; Pini di Roma; Feste Romane - Oregon Symphony/James DePreist (Delos > MOG)
Giya Kancheli - Symphonies Nos. 1, 4 & 5 - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/James DePreist (Ondine)
Paul Hindemith - The Four Temperaments; Noblissima Visione - Carol Rosenberger, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/James DePreist (Delos)
Dmitri Shostakovich - Festive Overture; Symphony No. 10 - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/James DePreist (Delos)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal, Act Three - Karl Hartmann, Elsa Larcén, Hans Wocke, Hans Reinmar, Ludwig Weber, Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin/Hans Knappertsbusch (Preiser > Spotify)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Plácido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Kurl Moll, James Morris, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/James Levine (Deutsche Grammophon > MOG)
Alex Cline - For People in Sorrow (Cryptogramophone; due March 19)
King Crimson - Rainbow Theatre, London, England, Dec. 13, 1972 (DGM)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Plácido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Falk Struckmann, Franz-Josef Selig, Wolfgang Bankl, Ain Anger, Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Christian Thielemann (Deutsche Grammophon > MOG)
Leonard Bernstein - On the Waterfront - Symphonic Suite; On the Town - Three Dance Episodes; Fanfare for JFK; Divertimento for Orchestra; Candide Suite; Candide Overture - University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss (Naxos)
Kimberly K. Archer - Symphony No. 2; John Mackey - Kingfishers Catch Fire; David Maslanka - Give Us This Day; David R. Gillingham - Symphony No. 2 “Genesis” - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Wind Symphony/John Raymond Bell (Mark)
Howard Hanson - Dies Natalis; Warren Benson - The Leaves Are Falling; Henry Brant - Angels and Devils - Bonita Boyd, Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger (Centaur)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Toccata Marziale; Variations for Wind Band; Paul Hindemith - Konzertmusik for Wind Orchestra; Aaron Copland - Quiet City; Karel Husa - Music for Prague 1968 - Wynton Marsalis, Phillip Koch, Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger (CBS Masterworks)
Arturo Márquez - Danzón No. 2; Andrew Boysen Jr. - Scherzo; Guy Woolfenden - Bohemian Dances; Ralph Hultgren - Of Questions and Answers; Roger Cichy - Bugs; Nigel Clarke - Gagarin - University of St. Thomas Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Matthew George (Innova > MOG)
Kenneth Hesketh - Infernal Run; Rolf Rudin - Out of Nowhere; Martin Ellerby - Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas; Philip Sparke - Deserts; Loris Chobanian - Armenian Rhapsody - University of St. Thomas Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Matthew George (Innova)
Ralph Hultgren - Whirr, Whirr, Whirr!!!; Luis Nani - Lost Forest; Kit Turnbull - Scenes from Childhood; Chen Qian - Ambush! From All Sides - University of St. Thomas Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Matthew George (Innova)
Carter Pann - Serenade for Winds; Concerto Logic; Daniel Kellogg - A Tent for the Sun; Pyramus and Thisbe - University of Colorado Wind Symphony/Allan McMurray (Klavier)
Bright Sheng - Shanghai Overture; Joel Puckett - The Shadow of Sirius; Michael Daugherty - Lost Vegas; Kristin Kuster - Two Jades; William Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Rag; Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Band - Amy Porter, Xiang Gao, Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet, University of Michigan Symphony Band/Michael Haithcock (Equilibrium)
Frank Ticheli - Wild Nights!; David Dzubay - Shadow Dance; Steven Bryant - Dusk; Roshanne Etezady - Anahita; John Mackey - Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble - Vince Gnojek, University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss (Naxos)
Vincent Persichetti - Pageant; Hale Smith - Expansions; Henry Brant - Verticals Ascending; Robert Russell Bennett - Symphonic Songs for Band; Ross Lee Finney - Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band - Frederick Hemke, Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/John P. Paynter (New World > MOG)
David Maslanka - Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble; Symphony No. 8 - Stephen Parsons, Adriana La Rosa Ransom, Illinois State University Wind Symphony/Stephen K. Steele (Albany > MOG)
Karel Husa - Smetana Fanfare; Al Fresco; Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble; Music for Prague 1968 - Momoko Gresham, Illinois State University Wind Symphony/Stephen K. Steele (Albany > MOG)
Coyote Image Medicinals - untitled CD-R (Kimberly Dawn > Bandcamp)
Courtly Illusion Limited - untitled cassette (Space Slave > Bandcamp)
Grant Evans - False Flag Loops (Hooker Vision > Bandcamp)
Quiet Evenings - Various (Bandcamp)
Reedbeds - Basement Grotto (SicSic Tapes > Bandcamp)
Kyle Landstra - Sage (Cosmic Winnetou > Bandcamp)
Vincent Persichetti - Divertimento; Psalm; O God Unseen; Pageant; Masquerade; O Cool Is the Valley; Parable IX - Winds of the London Symphony Orchestra/David Amos (Naxos)
Vittorio Giannini - Dedication Overture; Fantasia; Praeludium and Allegro; Symphony No. 3; Variations and Fugue - University of Houston Wind Ensemble/Tom Bennett (Naxos)
H. Owen Reed - Overture-1940; Karel Husa - Smetana Fanfare; Václav Nelhýbel - Fanfares from the Opera Libuše; H. Owen Reed - Fanfare for Remembrance; Karel Husa - Music for Prague 1968 - Rutgers Wind Ensemble/William Berz (Naxos)
Kevin Puts - Millennium Canons; Jonathan Newman - My Hands Are a City; Kristin Kuster - Lost Gulch Lookout; John Mackey - Kingfishers Catch Fire; Gustav Holst - Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo; Adam Gorb - Awayday - University of Georgia Wind Ensemble/John P. Lynch (Naxos)
Michael Pisaro - A wave and waves - Greg Stuart (Cathnor > Bandcamp)
Celer + Hakobune - Vain Shapes and Intricate Parapets (Chemical Tapes > Bandcamp)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Robert Kajanus; Pohjola’s Daughter; Tapiola - London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Kajanus (Naxos Historical)
Marc Copland - Some More Love Songs (Pirouet)
Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury)
Jean Sibelius - Belshazzar’s Feast - London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Kajanus; Karelia Suite - excerpts; Symphony No. 2 - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Robert Kajanus (Naxos Historical)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 5 - London Symphony Orchestra/Robert Kajanus; Finnish Jäger March - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra/Robert Kajanus (Naxos Historical)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Peter Hofmann, Dunja Vejzović, José van Dam, Victor von Halem, Kurt Moll, Siegmund Nimsgern, Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan (Deutsche Grammophon > MOG)
Kenneth Hesketh - A Rhyme for the Season; Graven Image; At God speeded summer’s end - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Christoph-Mathias Mueller; Ein Lichtspiel (after Moholy-Nagy); Wunderkammer(konzert) - Ensemble 10/10/Clark Rundell (NMC)
Dai Fujikura - Secret Forest - Art Respirant/Ken Takaseki; Rubi(co)n - Kate Romano; Phantom Pulse - Lucerne Percussion Group/Michel Cerutti; Eternal Escape - Adrian Bradbury; Okeanos - Okeanos (NMC)
Isis - Live IV (self-released)
Igor Stravinsky - Violin Concerto; Circus Polka; Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231; Rugby; Frank Martin - Violin Concerto - Baiba Skride, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer (Orfeo)
Hector Parra - Early Life; Stress Tensor - ensemble recherche; Caressant l’Horizon - Ensemble Intercontemporain/Emilio Pomárico (Col Legno)
Luke Bedford - Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale - Jonathan Morton, Lawrence Power, Scottish Ensemble; By the Screen in the Sun at the Hill on the Gold - Ensemble Modern/Sian Edwards; Chiaroscuro - Fidelio Trio; Man Shoots Strangers from Skyscraper - Ensemble Modern/Franck Ollu; Or Voit Tout En Aventure - Claire Booth, London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen (Col Legno)
Wolfgang Rihm - Cantus Firmus - Music in memoriam Luigi Nono (1st attempt); John Dowland - Lachrimae veræ; Wolfgang Rihm - Ricercare - Music in memoriam Luigi Nono (2nd attempt); Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6; Wolfgang Rihm - Chiffre II - Silence to be beaten; Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kreuzspiel; Wolfgang Rihm - Séraphin-Sphäre - Klangforum Wien/Emilio Pomárico, Sylvain Cambreling (Col Legno)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal: Orchestral Suite - Berlin Philharmonic/Alfred Hertz; Parsifal: Prelude and selections, Acts I & II - Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Karl Muck; Parsifal: selections, Act III - Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Karl Muck; Parsifal: “Good Friday Spell” - Fritz Wolff, Alexander Kipnis, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra/Siegfried Wagner (Naxos Historical)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Mödl, Ludwig Weber, George London, Arnold van Mill, Hermann Uhde, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra/Hans Knappertsbusch (Naxos Historical)
Derek Rogers - Mist & Drift (Jehu & Chinaman)
Derek Rogers - Saturations (Greenup Industries)
Liars - WIXIW (Mute)
Forma - Off/On (Spectrum Spools)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - Gary Lehman, Violeta Urmana, René Pape, Mariinsky Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra/Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - The Perennials (Boomkat Editions)
Butch Morris - Berlin Skyscraper (FMP > Bandcamp)
Butch Morris - Conduction #70: Tit for Tat (for4ears)
Nadia Sirota - Baroque (Bedroom Community/New Amsterdam)
Hong Chulki and Choi Joonyong - Hum and Rattle (Balloon & Needle)
Hong Chulki - Amplified WC (Ghost & Son)
Choi Joonyong - Burn Yoido Burn (Ghost & Son)
J D Emanuel - Sound Paintings (Bandcamp)
The Residents - Fingerprince (Tourniquet of Roses) (Cryptic Corporation > MOG)
Yes - Fragile (Atlantic/Rhino > MOG)
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio - “Owele Standing (Small Bird)” from Two Ts for a Lovely T (Codanza > MOG)
Mulgrew Miller - Solo (Space Time Records > MOG)
Richard Wagner - Parsifal - James King, Bernd Weikl, Kurt Moll, Matti Salminen, Franz Mazura, Yvonne Minton, Tölzer Knabenchor, Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Rafael Kubelik (Arts Archives)
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Satanic Abandoned Rock & Roll Society - Bloody Imagination (Mikroton)
throuRoof - Emerald Tablet of Hermes (Housecraft)
Scott Cloud - Absolute Down (Cloud Valley)
Cyquoia - Within Colored Reach (Cloud Valley)
Perspectives / Josh Mason - split CS (Permanent Nostalgia)
Andrew Chadwick - Kerning, Vol. 2 (Permanent Nostalgia)
Cool Person - Cool Person (Permanent Nostalgia)
Sovetskaya Gone - Kimberley Al Butnan (Digitalis)
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) (Kscope)
A Thousand Other Names - A Thousand Other Names (Birdcage)
Mountains - Centralia (Thrill Jockey)
Golden Retriever - Occupied with the Unspoken (Thrill Jockey)
Gay Shapes - MOSS 006 (Moss Archive)
HMS - Cascades (Avant Archive > Bandcamp)
Pink Buffalo - Belvedere (Rotifer)
The North Sea - Royal Arsenal (Black Horizons)
Quartz Safari - Pineal Origins (Rotifer)
Xiphiidae - Unreleased #2 (self-released)
Grant Evans - Dragging Alabaster (House of Sun)
Hunting Rituals - Tree Route (Housecraft)
Black Eagle Child - Black Eagle Child (Housecraft)
Tricorn & Queue - Straits of Maize (Object Tapes)
Pan to Scratch - What Is Kept and What Is Thrown Away (Housecraft)
Josh Burke - Imagination (Housecraft)
Zebulon - The Spirit of Spatterdock and Muminchogs (Housecraft)
The Second Family Band - Our Way Is the Right Way (Housecraft)
Fossils - Empty + Marvelous (Housecraft)
Jason Nicolaus - Song of Hope for the Bluebird (Housecraft)
Xiphiidae - Unreleased #3 (self-released)
King Crimson - Elzer Hof, Mainz, Germany, March 30, 1974 (DGM)
Zony Mash + Horns - Live at the Royal Room (self-released)
Stephan Mathieu and David Sylvian - Wandermüde (Samadhi Sounds)
Roberto Gerhard - Complete String Quartets; Chaconne for Solo Violin - Arditti Quartet (Aeon)
Witold Lutoslawski - Vocal Works - Lucy Crowe, Toby Spence, Christopher Purves, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos)
Antonio Vivaldi - Bassoon Concertos, Vol. 3 - Sergio Azzolini, L’Aura Soave (Naïve)
Hevreh Ensemble - Between Worlds (self-released)
Lake Mary - Lake Mary (Planted Tapes)
Laura Kaminsky - Vukovar Trio; Duo for Cello and Piano; Wave Hill - Ensemble Pi; Cadmium Yellow - Cassatt String Quartet; Music for Artur; Triftmusik - Idith Meshulam; Transformations - Colorado String Quartet (Albany)
Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope - Shara Worden, Signal/Brad Lubman (New Amsterdam > MOG)
Chrome Canyon - Elemental Themes (Stones Throw > MOG)
DJ Dopeshoes - Darkshoes mix (Soundcloud)
Glass House / Even the Dew Is Porous - split CS (Tranquility Tapes)
Emuul / Hemosis - split CS (Tranquility Tapes)
Millions / Dads Against Vietnam - split CS (Tranquility Tapes)
Kyle Landstra / Subtle Body - split CS (Tranquility Tapes)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel / Imperial Topaz - split CS (Tranquility Tapes)
Pete Swanson - Punk Authority (Mexican Summer)
Stephen Falken - The Curious Case of Wiedenfalsen (VCO Recordings)
Chris Potter - The Sirens (ECM)
Hong Chulki and Choi Joonyong - Hum and Rattle (Balloon & Needle)
Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (Balloon & Needle)
Ryu Hankil, Hong Chulki and Choi Joonyong - Inferior Sounds (Balloon & Needle)
Derek Rogers - Requiem for Mark Linkous (Anathema Sound)
Various artists - Inscriptions, Vol. 1 (Sacred Phrases)
Hong Chulki - Amplified WC (Ghost & Son)
Choi Joonyong - Burn Yoido Burn (Ghost & Son)
Michael Pisaro, Oswald Egger and Julia Holter - The Middle of Life (Die Ganze Zeit) (Gravity Wave)
Michael Pisaro - The Punishment of the Tribe by Its Elders (Gravity Wave)
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