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Kyle Gann on music after the fact

Mario and Me

This Thursday evening at Connecticut College, March 30 at 8 PM, the Da Capo ensemble is playing my The Day Revisited, along with my son Bernard Gann on fretless bass and myself on synthesizer. Presented in Evans Hall of the Cummings Arts Center in New London, CT, it’s part of a symposium on art and technology, and the program runs as follows:

In Ida’s Mirror by Stan Link (alto flute and electronic sound)

Response by Panayiotis Kokoras (electronic sound)

Meeting Places by Arthur Kreiger (ensemble and electronic sound)

New York Counterpoint by Steve Reich (clarinet and electronics)

The Day Revisited by Kyle Gann (ensemble and electronics)

Pan of the Landscape by Christopher Becks (16 mm film)

Synchronisms No. 6 by Mario Davidovsky (piano and electronic sound)

Old Mario and I haven’t been on the same program together since… well, forever, actually. I’m kind of a low-tech guy for this high-tech context, but The Day Revisited is my mellow ambient quintet in a 29-pitch scale, easy for me to play on the synth, a tremendous challenge for the flute and clarinet.

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American Mavericks - the Minnesota Public radio program about American music (scripted by Kyle Gann with Tom Voegeli)

Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - a cornucopia of music, interviews, information by, with, and on hundreds of intriguing composers who are not the Usual Suspects

Iridian Radio - an intelligently mellow new-music station

New Music Box - the premiere site for keeping up with what American composers are doing and thinking

The Rest Is Noise - The fine blog of critic Alex Ross

William Duckworth's Cathedral - the first interactive web composition and home page of a great postminimalist composer

Mikel Rouse's Home Page - the greatest opera composer of my generation

Eve Beglarian's Home Page- great Downtown composer

David Doty's Just Intonation site

Erling Wold's Web Site - a fine San Francisco composer of deceptively simple-seeming music, and a model web site

The Dane Rudhyar Archive - the complete site for the music, poetry, painting, and ideas of a greatly underrated composer who became America's greatest astrologer

Utopian Turtletop, John Shaw's thoughtful blog about new music and other issues

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