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JOHANNA BEYER: Music FOR WOODWINDS

Via her novel methods to texture and melody, German-American composer Johanna Magdalena Beyer (1888–1944) turned one of the most distinct modernist voices of the mid-20th century. Beyer was the first female regarded to have composed for electric devices (Music of the Spheres, 1938). Her compositions anticipate elements of minimalism, a motion that would manifest two a long time following her passing. Beyer was very long omitted from the published heritage of ultramodernism, but her actions as a composer and pianist in 1930s New York Metropolis positioned her inside the orbits of several critical artists. Her mentors, close friends, and collaborators provided Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Otto and Ethel Luening, Marion Bauer, Dane Rudhyar, Percy Grainger, and choreographer Doris Humphrey. At very last, in the 21st century, Beyer’s title is now invoked together with these other folks, as the importance of her audio is starting to be far more extensively recognized.

MICHAEL PISARO-LIU: RADIOLARIANS

Radiolarians includes fourteen compact parts, each individual derived from a particular species of radiolaria and ranging in length from a single to 9 minutes. Each individual piece attributes a mixture of harmonic, melodic, and noise elements corresponding about to the structures of every radiolaria, where by pitched things provide as tonal spines unfolding in time as effectively as spatially within the ensemble, and sounds aspects capture the twitches and undulations of the protozoic bodies contained therein.