Alvin Curran - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Composer Alvin Curran (born 13 December 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is the cofounder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran
Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Composer Alvin Curran (born 13 December in Providence, Rhode Island ) is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum , of Musica Elettronica Viva , and a former student of Elliott Carter . Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds . He is a professor of music at Mills College in California. Since , Curran has worked on a growing series of solo piano pieces entitled Inner Cities Electric Rags II New Albion Records , with Rova Saxophone Quartet Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden Catalyst Records , performed, synthesized , recorded and mixed by Alvin Curran. Schtyx (1994) CRI. Performed by the Abel Steinberg Winant Trio. VSTO (string quartet) performed by David Abel, first violin, Sharon Wood, second violin, Meg Tichener viola, and Dina Weinschelbaum, cello. Animal Behaviour Tzadik Theme Park (1998) Tzadik. Crystal Psalms (1999) New World Records. Lost Marbles (2004) Tzadik. "Toto Angelica" (2005) I Dischi di Angelica. "Inner Cities" (2005), played by
Extractions: Alvin Curran Crystal Psalms " in 1988. "Erat Verbum", a WDR commission took this concept even further. Instrumental works have been commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hessischer Rundfunk, Kronos Quartet, Relache, Group 180 (Budapest), Aki Takahashi ("Hyper Beatles"), Ursula Oppens, the Rova Saxophone Quartet , and the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio . Since 1991 Curran has created three new scores for the Trisha Brown Dance Company that were presented in the City Center season in 1993. A new work for the performance artist Joan Jonas debuted in July of 1993 in Berlin. Awards include NEA, DAAD, NPR and Ars Acoustica International. Curran taught briefly at the Academia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and is presently the Milhaud Professor of Music Composition at Mills College in Oakland, California. Alvin Curran's website is located at http://alvincurran.com/
Extractions: document.write(day + " " + month + " " + myweekday + ", " + year); Author: Alvin Curran March 27, 2007, 10:57 pm By Alvin Curran This article was written with Susan Levenstein. The composer and his 300-plus member band of German musicians ready to break into controlled chaos. (Photo: Susan Levenstein) One gray November Sunday morning in 1953 I was marching down Dorrance Street in Providence, R.I., playing the âColonel Bogey Marchâ (a tune later heard in âBridge on the River Kwaiâ) in a local National Guard Band of about 15 musicians led by my high-school music teacher Eddie McCabe. I was a mere kid â they needed an extra trombonist. As the band was about to pass the viewing stand â mind you this was my first and last appearance in military clothing, including an ill-fitting helmet that sat mostly over my eyes â I went for a low C-flat, a note only playable in seventh position, the one where you push the slide to the near end of its fixed tubing, but the slide kept going, flying magically from my hands and to wit from the trombone â dropping, like-oh-my-god, klunk, to the indifferent asphalt⦠The band kept going and in view of the cityâs mayor I had to dash back, retrieve the slide, and run like crazy to catch up with the show. This epochal adolescent trombone blunder was yet another instance of me publicly losing control of my own music making. At the time it was an enormous embarrassment, but in later years a controlled lack of control has become an eminent characteristic of my music and the music of many of my friends.
Alvin Curran Alvin Curran s musicmaking embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvised, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal ) in a serene dialectical encounter. http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Curran.shtml
Extractions: Alvin Curran's music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvised, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal...) in a serene dialectical encounter. His nearly 100 works feature taped/sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordion and chorus. Whether in the intimate form of his well-known solo performances, or pure chamber music, experimental radio works or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, all forge a very personal language through recombinant invention. Curran was born December 13, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island. From age five he was involved in piano lessons, trombone, marching bands, Synagogue chants, Jazz, and his father's dance bands. He studied composition with Ron Nelson (B.A. Brown University 1960) and with Elliott Carter and Mel Powell (M.Mus., Yale School of Music l963). In the MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA years (1966 -1971 in Rome), Curran performed in over 200 concerts in Europe and the USA with Teitelbaum and Rzewski, Carol Plantamura, Ivan Vandor, Alan Bryant and Jon Phetteplace; and makes significant artistic encounters with: Giuseppe Chiari, Edith Schloss, AMM, Cardew, Steve Lacy, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Steve ben Israel, Anthony Braxton, Simone Forti, Steve Reich, Joan LaBarbara, Michael Nyman, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Ashley, Behrman, Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, Larry Austin, Bill Smith, Ketoff, Robert Moog, Nuova Consonanza, MEV2, Meme Perlini, Mario Ricci, Maria Monti, Prima Materia, Ron Bunzl, Phil Glass, Charlemagne Palestine, Terry Riley, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Gregory Reeves, Serge Tcherepnin, Kosugi, Pulsa, Maryanne Amacher, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton Feldman.
NewMusic.html March 11, Friday MILLS COLLEGE Composerin-Residence Alvin curran alvin Curran, piano and electronics; David Abel and Joseph Edelberg, violin; Paul Ehrlich http://www.o-art.org/history/80s&90s/Contemporary/calenders/NewMusic.html
Extractions: PREVIOUS UP TOP NEW MUSIC BAY AREA JAN-JULY 1994 JANUARY January 13, Thursday STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Alea II: Ensemble for New Music Karol Berger is the moderator in a program featuring the West Coast premiere of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra: Arvo Part's Fratres; and works by Stephen Mackey, David Soley, and Giancarlo Aquilanti. 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, free January 18, Tuesday SAN FRANCISCO CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PLAYERS Elliott Carter's 85th Birthday Elliott Carter graces SFCMP with his presence for the celebration of his 85th birthday in an all-Carter concert. Works include Eight Etudes and a Fantasy, Trilogy, Pastorale, Gra, and Quintet. Featured performers: Karen Gottlieb, harp; William Banovetz, oboe; Gregory Dufford, clarinet. 8pm, Green Room, War Memorial Veterans Building, 7pm pre-concert discussion, $14/$10/$6 January 27, Thursday SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC New Music Ensemble The Conservatory's New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Joan Gallegos, performs works created in the Weigand Electronic Music Studio by Conservatory composers. 8pm, Hellman Hall, free January 31, Monday EARPLAY Spotlight on Bay Area Composers Dan Dobialka is the featured violinist in a program spotlighting Bay Area composers. Works include Aplomb by Ross Bauer, Little Trio by Peter Lewis, and the West Coast premiere of Galactic Folds by Lou Karchin. Receiving world premiere performances are Duo by Wayne Peterson, Urban Green by Mark Winges and a new work by Jody Rockmaster. 8pm, Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, $15/$12
Composer : Curran Alvin curran alvin, First held in 1989, the Ars Musica Festival is an international festival of contemporary music, held annually in March in Brussels, Belgium. http://www.arsmusica.be/cms/compositeur_en.php?oobj=compo&iobj=397
SEARCH SILO Locator [AUTHOR Curran Alvin S.1938-] Program and biographical notes by David Toop, Alvin Curran, and Melissa Gould, with selected discography and bibliography (19 p.) inserted in container. http://z3950.silo.lib.ia.us/cgi-bin/search.CGI?SILO&index_0=AUTHOR/STRUCTURE:PHR
Alvin Curran: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati I ve been filing away responses to my overnight broadcast on Future Radio of Alvin Curran s Inner Cities and thought this typical message was worth posting. http://technorati.com/tag/alvin curran
Alvin Curran Official site. Includes biography, selected writings, discography, installations, solo performances, and current projects. http://www.alvincurran.com/
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Extractions: A post on aworks citing the work Endangered Species by Alvin Curran incorrectly linked to an Amazon-stocked CD entitled "Lost Marbles" containing the work Endangered Species by Alvin Curran. The work Endangered Species by Alvin Curran on that CD was not the intended subject of the post and should not be seen as an endorsement for or against said CD. Instead, the post was describing the work Endangered Species by Alvin Curran, as played by pianist Bruce Brubaker on another Amazon-stocked CD , entitled "Inner Cities." The connection between these two selections is unclear and a quick trip to Rasputin Records did not provide the necessary source recording to ascertain just what was the compositional intent.
Alvin Curran Composer alvin curran, Music from the Center of the Earth. Three LargeScale Sound Installations in Leonardo Music Journal 4, 1994, S. 1-8 · MusikTexte 53, http://www.lichtensteiger.de/curran.html
::quartier21:: alvin curran, born Providence RI Dec. 13, 1938 studied composition at Brown Univ. with Ron Nelson (BA cum laude 1963) and at Yale School of Music with http://quartier21.mqw.at/kuenstlerstudios/stipendiaten.php?Id=90&BackTo=werke.ph
Browse By Artist: CURRAN, ALVIN Featuring the foghorns and other maritime sounds of the US Eastern Seaboard and solo improvisations by John Cage, Joseph Celli, Clark Coolidge, alvin curran http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/curran.alvin.html
Extractions: Artist: CURRAN, ALVIN Title: Inner Cities Label: LONG DISTANCE (FRANCE) Format: Price: Catalog #: LONG 560304 Performed by Daan Vandewalle (piano), 4 hours, 24 minutes worth. "Alvin Curran's music-making embraces all the contradictions (composed/improvises, tonal/atonal, maximal/minimal) in a serene dialectical encounter. His more than 100 works feature taped/sampled natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordion and chorus. Whether in the intimate form of his well-known solo performances, or pure chamber music, experimental radio works or large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, all forge a very personal language from all the languages through dedicated research and recombinant invention. The composer says of Inner Cities 'This music is open, unhurried, brutally lyrical, quiet, private, and tonal as it is raucous, aggressively impolite and obsessively meticulous in making the simple relations between tones and durations an unending adventure of personal wonder. My goal, as always, was to reduce the musical elements to their ultimate essences, to repudiate and embrace dualism, and to emulate, even in permanent notation, the feel of spontaneous music-making.'
Curran,Alvin S. curran,alvin S. (1938). Sex, Male. Comments. Seven articles. Written, 1989. Duration, 2700. Comments, Text from US Constitution. Commissioned by and for http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Composers/Names/002513.html
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Extractions: Title index available in print version: Finding List for the Annotated Portion of the Yvar Mikhashoff Musical Estate in the Music Library, State University of New York at Buffalo This list enumerates the portion of the musical estaste of Yvar Mikhashoff which was annotated, signed, or otherwise personalized by Mikhashoff. Music not so personalized is part of the general collection of the Music Library; each bibliographic record for that music indicates Mikhashoff's ownership and title pages are similarly marked. Mikhashoff's arrangements, transcriptions, and compositions form the Yvar Mikhashoff Collection of Compositions , and are shelved in the Treasure Room. A dedicated and industrious teacher, the annotations in this portion of his musical estate may continue to aid the piano student and historian alike. A B C D ... Z Composer: Adams, John
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