The Universityof California San Diego

Music Department welcomes

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS

Fourteenth Annual Conference FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 4, 1979

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The University of California at San Diego is proud to host the 14th Annual Conference of the American Society of University Composers. The Music Department at UCSD, which, since its inception, has demonstrated a special concern for the creation, performance and study of music of our time, is particularly happy to be visited by the Society's members, to provide for and partici­pate in their conference activities.

On behalf of the La Jolla campus Administration, the Faculty, Students and Staff of the Music Department, I extend a warm welcome and express the hope that your brief sojourn will be stimu­lating, rewarding and memorable.

Conference Director: Associate Directors:

Administrative Assistant:

Bernard Rands Conference Di rector Chairman, Music Department, UCSD

Bernard Rands Beverly Grigsby

Robert Stewart Steed Cowart

U.C. San Diego California State University,

North ridge University of Redlands U.C. San Diego

UCSD Conference and Program Planning Committee and Music Reading Panel:

Ensembles:

SONOR: E.V.T.E.:

Brass Ou i ntet: Concert & Chamber Choirs: Graduate Student Ensemble: Harry Partch Performance Ensemble:

Thomas Nee Pauline Oliveros Roger Reynolds Bernard Rands Edwin Harkins Gerry Gabel Steed Cowart

Contemporary Music Ensemble, Music Department, USCD Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble, Center for Music

Experiment, UCSD Music Department, San Diego State University Music Department, UCSD Music Department, UCSD Music Department, San Diego State University

The following deserve special acknowledgement for their invaluable support and enormous contri­bution to the conference:

William McElroy:

Alan Johnson: Vladimir Voos: Irene Solomon: George Ritscher and Paul Tydelski:

Chancellor, UCSD, for a generous grant towards the fund -ing of the conference.

Manager of Mandeville Auditorium Assistant in Mandeville Auditorium Public Relations Officer, Music Department, UCSD Electronics Technicians, Music Department, UCSD

To the many others who, in essential ways, have contributed time and energy to the conference preparations, our gratefu I thanks.

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WEDNESDAY, 28th February, 1979

2:00 PM Onwards

4:00 PM to 7 :30 PM

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Registration at the La Jolla Village Inn. Registration will continue in the foyer of Mandeville Center Auditor­

ium from 7:00 PM until after the evening concert

Meeting of the National Council and Executive Committee. Mandeville Suite, 11th Floor, Tioga Hall, Muir College.

CONCERT - Mandeville Auditorium

Performers:

SONOR - Conductor, Bernard Rands

Linda Vickerman - Mezzo Soprano Philip Larson - Bass Baritone Bernhard Batschelet - Flute Edward Yadzinsky - Clarinet

and Bass Clarinet Drake Mabry - Oboe Robert Burns - Horn Edwin Harkins - Trumpet Ted Grove - Trombone Tanya Rust - Tuba

E.V.T.E.

Deborah Kavasch Linda Vickerman Edwin Harkins Philip Larson

PROGRAM:

Butterflies Soloist: Linda Vickerman

Glassworks Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 11

Soloist: Bertram Turetzky Two Sonnets of Shakespeare

Soloist: Philip Larson

INTERMISSION:

Psalm of These Days 2 Remembrances

Cecil Lytle - Piano Bun Ching Lam - Harpsichord Mark Lockett - Electric Organ Jean-Charles Francois - Vibra-

phone & Percussion Genette Foster - Violin & Viola Edith Kaspin - Violin Leonard Sachs - Viola Peter Farrell - Cello Bertram Turetzky - Contrabass

GUEST ARTISTS

David Cope - Piano Ken Durling - Piano Joel Bluestone - Assistant Paul Dresher - Assistant Greg Ketchum - Assistant

Derek Healey

David Cope Larry Austin

Ben Johnston

Edwin London Lawrence Moss

Reception in the East Room of Mandeville Auditorium.

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THURSDAY, 1st March, 1979

9:00 AM to 9:45 AM

9:45 AM to 10:15 AM

10:15 AM to 10:45 AM

10:45 AM to 11 :00 AM

11 :00 AM to 11 :30 AM

Recital Hall, Mandeville Center Welcoming addresses by:

Professor Bernard Rands, Chairman, Music Department, UCSD Professor Paul Saltman, Academic Vice Chancellor, UCSD Professor Edwin London, Chairman, Music Department, Cleveland

State University and Chairman of the National Council of A.S.U.C.

SESSIONS: Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

FORUM I - THEORY

"TOWARD RESOLVING THE DISSONANCE BETWEEN THE ANALYTIC APPROACHES OF SCHOENBERG AND SCHENKER."

- Arthur J. Komar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"A CATEGORICAL APPROACH TO RHYTHMIC ANALYSIS IN SOUND MASS COMPOSITION."

- Robert L. Rollin, Youngstown State University

COFFEE BREAK

"THE ANALYSIS OF MUSIC, THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH"

- James D. Wagoner, The Catholic University of America

11 :30 AM to 12:00 Noon "A COMPARISON OF ROW SELECTION AS RELATED TO STRUC­TURAL PROCEDURES IN DAS AUG EN LICHT, OP. 26 AND VARIA­TION, OP. 30.

12:00 Noon to 1 :00 PM

1:00 PM to 2:15 PM

2: 15 PM to 3:45 PM

- Paul Hedwall, University of Alabama

PANEL: "CONTEMPORARY ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES, PRO AND CON."

- Arthur J. Komar (Chair), M.l.T. - Jane Coppock, Dartmouth College - Paul Hedwall, University of Alabama - John Rahn, University of Washington at Seattle - John Rogers, University of New Hampshire - Robert Rollin, Youngstown State University, Ohio - Gerald Warfield, New York - James D. Wagoner, The Catholic University of America

LUNCH

Recital Hall, Mandeville Center Special Guest Lecture. "CHROMATIC FLEXIBILITY" by Charles Wuorinen

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THURSDAY, 1st March, 1979

CONCERTS:

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Stage Performance Area, Mandeville Auditorium

PROGRAM: Links 2 - Stuart Smith

Soloist: Daryl Pratt Mirrors 6 - Edward Diamente

Edward Yadzinsky - Alto Saxophone I Cecil Lytle - Piano Diversions & Interactions - Greg Steinke

Jean-Charles Francois, Daryl Pratt, Joel Bluestone - Percussion Doors - Ann Silsbee

Soloist: Mark Lockett Links 3 - Stuart Smith

Soloist: Daryl Pratt Soundposts - Rudolph Bubalo

Edward Yadzinsky - Clarinet I Genette Foster - Violin Cecil Lytle - Piano

Mandeville Auditorium

Performers: U.C.S.D. Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Conductor: Gerry Gable

With strings of the La Joi la Civic Orchestra

SON OR Conductor: Bernard Rands

Deborah Kavasch - Soprano Bernhard Batschelet - Flute Edward Yadzinsky - Clarinet Howie Smith - Bass Clarinet Cecil Lytle - Piano Jean-Charles Francois - Percussion Daryl Pratt - Percussion Genette Foster - Violin Peter Farrell - Cello Bertram Turetzky - Contrabass

PROGRAM: When This You See, Remember Me Mirrors

Soloist: Cecil Lytle Kubla Khan

Soloist: Deborah Kavasch

INTERMISSION

- Eric Stokes - Richard Bunger

- Neil McKay

Ovos Omnes - William Averitt Sextet - Ursula Mamlok Laudate Pueri - John Russell

Soloists: Claire Metzger & Robert Smith

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FRIDAY, 2nd March, 1979

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

10:30 AM to 11 :00 AM

11 :00 AM to 11: 15 Al\'1

11 :15 AM to 12:30 PM

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

SESSIONS: Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

FORUM II - THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA

"INTRODUCTION AND FIVE STATEMENTS: DIRECTIONS FOR THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONSORTIUM"

Introduction - Cleve Scott (Chair), Ball State University, Indiana

Statement I "Current Problems in Funding" - Ron Pellegrino, Texas Technological College, Texas

Statement 11 "Information Exchange: Hardware-Software" - Greg Steinke, Evergreen State College, Washington

Statement 111 "Studio Standards:" - Ron Perera, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts

Statement IV "Information Exchange: Music-Tapes and Scores: - Beverly Grigsby, California State University, Northridge

Statement V " Pedagogy and Aesthetics" - David Keane, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

"MUSIC AT IRCAM"

- Gregory Levin, lnstitut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris, France

"SOME PRACTICAL AESTHETIC PROBLEMS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC."

- David Keane, Queens University, Kingston, Canada

COFFEE BREAK

PANEL: "AESTHETIC PROBLEMS IN THE TEACHING OF ELEC­TRONIC MUSIC: IN PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE."

- Jonathon D. Kramer (Chair), University of Cincinnati, Ohio - W. Kenton Bales, North Texas State University, Texas - Herbert Bielawa, San Francisco State University, California - David Cohen, Arizona State University, Arizona - David Keane, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada - Gregory Levin, I RCAM, Paris, France - Peter Tod Lewis, University of Iowa, Iowa - Thomas Wells, Ohio State University, Ohio

LUNCH

Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

DEMONSTRATION - WORKSHOP "Extended Techniques for Trumpet and Voices"

- Edwin Harkins - Trumpet

Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble Deborah Kavasch I Linda Vickerman Edwin Harkins I Philip Larson

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FRIDAY, 2nd March, 1979

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

8:00 PM

CONCERTS

Stage Performance Area, Mandeville Auditorium

PROGRAM

Divergencies - Jane Brockman Bernhard Batschelet - Flute I Howie Smith - Soprano Saxophone Cecil Lytle - Piano

Vignette, - Charles Hoag Soloist: Bertram Turetzky

Dithyrambos - Beverly Grigsby Barbra Porter - Violin I Janice Foy - Cello

Olep ed Asudamont - Aurelio de la Vega Soloist: Bertram Turetzky

Four Etudes for Three Contrabasses - William Karl ins Bertram Turetzky I Larry Czoka I Dennis Woodrich

Antiphon 11 - Michael Horvit Soloist: Edward Yadzinsky

Songs of Silence and the Night - Joel Naumann Isabelle Tercero - Mezzo Soprano Ann Erwin - Flute Terry Tunnicliff - Clarinet Ralph Dudgeon - Trumpet Leonard Sachs - Viola Bun Ching Lam - Piano Steed Cowart - Conductor

GENERAL BUSINESS MEETING - Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

CONCERT - Mandeville Auditorium

Performers:

S.D.S.U. Brass Quintet - Conductor, David Ward-Steinman I Jack Logan - Trumpet 1 I Brad Peters - Trumpet 2 I Robert Burns -Horn I Jeff Peterson - Trombone I Barton Cummings - Tuba.

SONOR - Conductor, Bernard Rands Bernhard Batschelet - Flute I Edward Yadzinsky - Clarinet I Edwin Harkins - Trumpet I Cecil Lytle - Piano I Jean-Charles Francois, Daryl Pratt, Joel Bluestone - Percussion I Genette Foster - Violin I Peter Farrell -. Cello.

PROGRAM

Whispers of the Dead - Jackson Hill Soloist: Bernhard Batschelet

Nova - Ruth Shaw Wylie Brancusi's Brass Beds - David Ward-Steinman

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SATURDAY, 3rd March, 1979

9:00 AM to 10:10 AM

10:15AMto 11:15AM

11: 15 AM to 11 :30 AM

11 :30 AM to 12:30 PM

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

SESSIONS: Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

FORUM Ill - SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS CONCERNING THE COMPOSER

"ASPECTS OF BMI OPERATION AND THE SERVICES IT PRO­VIDES TO COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS".

- James Roy

PANEL: "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER AND MUSIC REVIEWERS."

- William Matthews (Chair), Bates College, Maine - William Bowen, Music Critic, Guardian (London, England) - Donald Dierks, Music Critic, San Diego Union - Jonathon Kramer, University of Cincinnati, Ohio - Elliott Schwartz, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

COFFEE BREAK

PANEL: "THE INF LUE NCE OF PATTERNS OF ARTS FUNDING ON THE COMPOSER OF THE SEVENTIES."

- Maurice Wright (Chair), Brookline, Massachusetts - Bernard L. Faber, Director of the Center For The Study Of Public

Policy And The Arts - Grant Beglarian, Dean of The School Of Performing Arts, University

of Southern California - Dale Kobler, Music Program, National Endowment for the Arts - Pauline Oliveros, Member of N.E.A. Composer/Librettist Panel

LUNCH

Mandeville Auditorium

Music by Harry Partch, Cris Forster and Paul William Simons will be played on Partch's original instruments under the musical direction of Danlee Mitchell.

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SATURDAY, 3rd March, 1979

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

8:00 PM

CONCERTS

Stage Performance Area, Mandeville Auditorium

PROGRAM Five Poems of Emily Dickenson - Bruce Falconer

Kathryn Evans - Soprano I Vicki Heins - Piano Unisonics - C. Curtis-Smith

Trent Kynaston - Alto Saxophone IC. Curtis-Smith - Piano Fantasy - Elizabeth Vercoe

Soloist: Margaret Rose Music for Solo Violin - Daria Semegen

Soloist: Genette Foster Reflexions - Phillip Rhodes

Soloist: Margaret Rose Tre Sonetti - Allen Brings

Isabelle Tercero - Mezzo Soprano Danette Bennett - Flute Terry Tunnicliff - Clarinet Bun Ching Lam - Piano Joel Bluestone - Percussion Edith Kaspin - Violin Mu'frida Bell - Cello Larry Czoka - Contrabass Steed Cowart - Conductor

Performers:

U.C.S.D. Graduate Student Ensemble Bernhard Batschelet - Flute Jared Kliger - Oboe William Hays - Piano Daryl Pratt - Percussion Mu'frida Bell - Cello

SONO R - Conductor: Bernard Rands Bernhard Batschelet - Flute Drake Mabry - Oboe Robert Burns - Horn Edwin Harkins - Trumpet Ted Grove - Trombone Cecil Lytle - Piano Genette Foster - Violin Peter Farrell - Cello

PROGRAM Lotus Music for Brass Quintet Chamber Concertina

Soloist: Genette Foster - Violin

INTERMISSION Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 6

Soloist: Bernhard Batschelet Empirical Rag Corridors

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S.D.S.U. Brass Quintet David Ward-Steinman-Conductor Jack Logan - Trumpet 1 Brad Peters - Trumpet 2 Robert Burns - Horn Jeff Peterson - Trombone Barton Cummings - Tuba

- Alexina Louie - Robert H. Lewis - George Schelle

- Larry Austin

- Brian Fennelly - Thomas Read

SUNDAY, 4th March, 1979

9:00 AM to 9:20 AM

9:20 AM to 9:40 AM

9:40 AM to 10:00 AM

10:00 AM to 10:20 AM

10:20 AM to 10:40 AM

10:40 AM to 11 :00 AM

11 :00 AM to 11: 15 AM

11: 15 AM to 12:30 AM

12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

2: 15 PM to 3:30 PM

SESSIONS: Recital Hall, Mandeville Center

FORUM IV - Composition

"RHYTHM IDEATION"

- Victor Saucedo, Chula Vista College

"DENSITY FUNCTIONS IN THE STRUCTURE OF MODERN MUSIC"

- Thomas S. Clark, North Texas State University

"THE SENSE OF MUSICAL HUMOR:

- Elliott Borishansky, Denison University, Ohio

"THEATER IN MUSIC OR OPERA OF THE ABSURD"

- Thomas L. Cain, University of Maryland

"DENSITY IN MUSICAL CONTEXT"

- E. Michael Harrington, Westfield State College, Massachusetts

"OLIVIER MESSIAEN's COMPOSITIONAL USE OF TIMBRE TECH­NIQUES"

- Heidi Von Gunden, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

COFFEE BREAK

PANEL: "THE TEACHING OF COMPOSITION TO THE NON-COMPOSER"

- Leo Kraft (Chair), Queens College, CUNY - Clifford Taylor, Temple University, Pennsylvania - Barney Childs, University of Redlands

LUNCH

Center for Music Experiment, 408 Warren Campus

PROGRAM OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Sorcerer Revisited Electronic Music Phosphones

for computer-generated tape

- Barton Mc Lean - Thomas Wei Is -Emmanuel Ghent

Cascando - Charles Dodge for voice, synthetic voice and computer generated music

N.B. Throughout the duration of the conference, C.M.E. will hold "Open House". Conference members are invited to visit, at any time the Research Unit located at 408 Warren Campus to observe the work of Fellows and Associates currently active at the Center.

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The Music Department on the La Jolla campus of the University of California, San Diego offers unusual and attractive programs in undergraduate study {leading to a BA in Music with honors) and graduate programs leading to the degrees of MA and PhD in Music.

The distinguished faculty is constituted as follows:

Gerald Balzano

Rafael Druian

Robert Erickson

Peter Farrell

Genette Foster

Jean-Charles Francois

Edwin Harkins

Cecil Lytle

Thomas Nee

Will Ogdon

Pauline Oliveros

Carol Plantamura

Bernard Rands

Roger Reynolds

John Silber

Bertram Turetzky

- psychoacoustics, musical perception

- violinist, conductor, chamber music

- composer, studies in timbre

- cellist, gambist, performance practice

- musicologist, violinist, violist

- percussionist, conductor, composer

- composer, trumpeter, theory/musicianship

- pianist, black music studies, gospel, jazz

- conductor, opera theater

- composer, studies in 20th century opera

- composer, technology, performance electronics

- vocalist, early and contemporary vocal music

- composer, conductor

- composer, notation, computer music

- trombonist, conductor, improvisation

- contrabassist, chamber music

Students interested in further information should write directly to the Chairman of the Music Department. A number of teaching assistantships, special fellowships, awards and work study opportunities are available. Admission is highly competitive in the graduate school and prospective students are advised to submit applications by the middle of January.

Music Department B-026, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093

Closely associated with the Music Department is the Center for Music Experiment initiated some six years ago. This music research unit, substantially funded by the University, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous smaller foundations provides a working facility and environment which has attracted to it composers, performers, artists, dancers, music technologists and scientists, scholars and critics from all over the world. In conjunction with the Music Department it is currently carrying out plans to build and develop one of the world's most sophisticated computer systems designed for musical purposes. Fellowships and short term residencies are available at the Center. For details of conditions please write to the Director, Center for Music Experiment, 408 Warren Campus, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093.

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