2 / 5 / 2012

Our guests were Peter Schubert and Fabrice Marandola of McGill University, Viva Voce, and Sixtrum. On May 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at
Redpath Hall, McGill University
3461 McTavish Street, Montreal,
celebrated percussion ensemble Sixtrum joins forces with VivaVoce to celebrate the 100th birthday of iconoclastic American composer John Cage. The program features premieres by Chris Paul Harman, Stacey Brown and Brian Cherney, as well as works by Cage and Vivier.

1. Diana Deutsch – Sometimes Behave So Strangely
2. Julia Wolfe – Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
3. Brian Eno – Generative Music (track 2)
4. Brad Garton – Transplant-wait
5. Claude Vivier – Pulau Dewata (McGill performers)
6. John Cage – Four2
7. Raymond Deane – Samara
8. Arthur Honegger – Pacific 231 (Bernstein)
9. Michael Gordon – For Madeline

2012 / 4 / 4

This show includes a review of the Music, Mind and Invention Workshop

1. John Cage – Williams Mix
2. Krzysztof Penderecki – Fluorescences
3. Krzysztof Penderecki – Te Deum
4. Jonny Greenwood – Popcorn Superhet Receiver
5. Andre Prevost – Scherzo for Strings
6. Melissa Hui – Solstice
7. JB Floyd – Tribute
8. Art Tatum plays Dvorak Humoresque
9. Jonny Greenwood – Smear

2010 / 12 / 15

We went to see the new Raymond Scott documentary by his son Stan Warnow.

1. Raymond Scott – Bumpy Weather Over Newark
2. David Mahler – Wagnerian Opera
3. Per Norgard – Violin Concerto (Helle Nacht) I
4. John Cage – Party Pieces
5. Ensemble Zwischentöne – I have nothing to say and I am saying it
6. Marc Sabat – Erbsen 1, 2, 3
7. Tiny Tim – All I Want for Christmas; Tiptoe Through the Tulips
8. Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemmingway – Invention 8107AM
9. Amon Tobin – Kitchen Sink
10. Tod Dockstader – 8 Electronic Pieces
11. Steven Mackey – See Ya Thursday
12. Otto Luening – The Bass With the Delicate Air
13. Raymond Scott – Powerhouse (rehearsal); The Happy Whistler
14. Gyorgy Ligeti – Violin Concerto: Praeludium, Aria, Hocquetus, Chorale
15. Emilie something and Andrea Jane Cornell – bruit avant et plans de fond
16. Tim Brady – Seconds; Liquid
17. Aram Khachaturian – Adagio from Spartacus

2010 / 7 / 28

1. John Cage – 3 easy pieces
2. Christian von Borries – Tannhauser in kabul
3. Big Bunnies from Tarantula
4. Marjorie Hess- About the Night (Alexander String Quartet)
5. Bernard Herrmann – Psycho
6. Iannis Xenakis – Mists
7. Michael Edwards – Skin
8. Raymond Scott – Powerhouse (The Philharmonicas)
9. Charles Dodge – Violin Variations
10. Edgard Varèse – Ionization (Slonimsky)
11. Mauricio Kagel – rrrrr
12. Christian von Borries – Peeping Around Corners (with Diedrich Diedrichsen)
13. Paul Lansky – Threads (Yale Percussion)