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unusual facts about New Music



Naked Eyes

According to Denis McNamara who was the program director at New Music station WLIR during the bands heyday this has led to a "curiosity" about the group over the years.

René Lussier

His work, which combines elements from all major genres, is often referred to within the discourse of New Music, or Musiques Actuelles, in French.

Zwei-Osterei

According to Conrad Schnitzler in a 1980 interview he gave to David Elliott an advertisement by an organist interested in new music led to the recording session being sponsored by a church.


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Academy of St Martin in the Fields

In May 2011, the orchestra announced the appointment of Joshua Bell as its new music director, the second person to hold the title in the orchestra's history, effective September 2011, with an initial contract of 3 years.

Andy Bull

A new single called "Keep On Running" was premiered on Richard Kingsmill's 2013 new music show on Sunday, February 24 and it was added to rotation immediately after.

Anne Cawrse

Her works have also been performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Trio d’anche Suave, the Sonic Art Ensemble and the Elder New Music Ensemble.

Arlene Sierra

Performers of her work have included New York City Opera VOX, the American Composers Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the New Music Players, Psappha, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Chroma, the Schubert Ensemble, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.

Bei Nacht

On 5 May 2011 Bei Nacht was performed by the ALEA Ensemble at the Musik-Forum München, Studio für neue Musik (studio for new music), together with chamber music of Gerhard Präsent (Trio intricato), Herbert Blendinger (Fantasie in G) and Iván Erőd (Trio).

Bob Gilmore

“Changing the metaphor: Ratio models of musical pitch in the work of Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, and James Tenney,” Perspectives of New Music 33, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter–Summer 1995): 458–503.

Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia

Throughout its history, the Choral Arts Society has been dedicated to the commissioning and performance of new music.

Claude Lenners

He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego, Asko Ensemble, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Comédie en vaudeville

It became a common feature of the earlier opéras comiques, such as those written by Charles Simon Favart or composed by Egidio Duni, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, and François-André Danican Philidor, and began to frequently utilize new music, although still labelled "vaudeville".

Desmond Star

He tried out his songs on live audiences, gigging in Wales with a loose band of friends, and began to attract a following when DJ Adam Walton played some of his home-recorded songs on the BBC Radio Wales new music show, The Musical Mystery Tour, for which 'The Boy Band' played a live session.

DuckTales: Remastered

DuckTales: Remastered also features new music in the game, composed by Jake Kaufman.

Eddie Piller

This monthly/bi-monthly podcast is co-hosted with actor Jonny Owen and A&R man Dean Rudland, and features new music, film, sport, fashion and discusses "all things Mod and beyond".

Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza

Drawing on jazz, serialism, musique concrete, and other avant-garde techniques developed by contemporary classical music composers such as Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi, the group was dedicated to the development of new music techniques by improvisation, noise-techniques, and anti-musical systems.

Gualberto Garcia Perez

From this period, the first Cycle of the New Music at the University of Seville stands out.

In C

Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble produced an album of remixed versions of In C with guest remixers including Jad Abumrad of Radiolab.

International Louie Louie Day

In 2011, KFJC celebrated International Louie Louie Day with a reprise of its 1983 "Maximum Louie Louie" event, featuring multiple "Louie Louie" versions, new music by Richard Berry and appearances by musicians, DJs, and celebrities with "Louie Louie" connections.

Irén Lovász

An Estonian contemporary composer, Peeter Vähi wrote new music for her voice in which she sings early medieval Tibetan and Sanskrit language texts: Supreme Silence (CC'nC Records 2000).

Irène Deliège

Shortly after graduating she began to attend the courses music writing and harmony given by Profressor Andre Souris at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and as a result was invited to attend the Summer School for New Music in Darmstadt (Darmstädter Ferienkurse), where she met the Belgian musicologist Celestin Deliege, whom she married in 1954.

Jane's Minstrels

Jane's Minstrels is a virtuoso British new music ensemble set up in 1988 by the English soprano Jane Manning and her husband, the composer Anthony Payne.

Janice Robinson

Her biggest hit with Livin' Joy was reissued with new music, vocals and Janice was credited for her work on it this time.

Jordan Prentice

Prentice appeared on British TV in a series of nine commercials for British radio station Absolute Radio, with DJ Christian O'Connell, as Doug, the station's new music-mad security guard with attitude.

Kenny Endo

Endo has received commissions to compose and tour new music from the American Composers Forum, the McKnight Foundation, The Children's Theatre Company, the Rockefeller Foundation (MAPP), the Japan Foundation, Continental Harmony, the Freeman Foundation, Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Stanford Lively Arts, and the Honolulu Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts.

Lajos Bárdos

His repertory was pioneering: he included choral music from before Palestrina––especially that of Josquin––while also promoting new music (for instance, he directed the Palestrina Choir's performance of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in 1932, to great success––and praises from Stravinsky).

Lori Watson

She is investigating new music-making by musicians of a traditional music background and working with a team of supervisors that include: Dr. Stephen Broad, Dr. Liz Doherty, Dr. Stuart Eydmann and Prof. Raymond MacDonald.

Los Mismos

While Los Bukis continued performing and releasing new music, Marco Antonio Solís also wrote and produced albums for Marisela, Rocío Dúrcal, and María Sorté.

Lyndsey Rodrigues

In June 2010 it was announced that Rodrigues had been appointed the new Music and Entertainment presenter for BigPond Entertainment, a return to her original love of all things music.

Magnus Lindberg

This piece was written for and premiered by the new-music ensemble Toimii ("It Works" in the Finnish language), which Lindberg founded during the summer of 1980.

Matt Seymour

Matt Seymour is a presenter at BBC Radio York, hosting the station's new music and local bands show, More Raw Introducing....

Michael Pisaro

It has been selected twice by the ISCM jury for performance at World Music Days festivals (Copenhagen,1996; Manchester, 1998) and has also been part of festivals in Hong Kong (ICMC, 1998), Vienna (Wien Modern,1997), Aspen (1991), Chicago (New Music Chicago, 1990, 1991), Glasgow (INSTAL, 2009), Berlin (Maerzmusik, 2010), Sonorités (Montpellier, 2011) and others.

New Music Manchester

The Manchester School is principally identified with the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, and together with the pianist John Ogdon and the conductor and trumpeter Elgar Howarth they formed the group New Music Manchester.

Oakland Symphony

In the 1960s, the orchestra was noted for its commitment to new music under music director Gerhard Samuel, giving local and world premieres by such composers as Darius Milhaud, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Hans Werner Henze.

Other Minds

It is broadcast on San Francisco radio station KALW and features a wide variety of international new music common to the mission of Other Minds.

Princeton Symphony Orchestra

To this end, the orchestra presents numerous concerts and other events free of charge, including Chamber Series concerts, lectures in collaboration with the Princeton Public Library, and lectures on new music by living composers.

Quebec Contemporary Music Society

The first Montreal/New Music International Festival was produced in 2005 and featured the music of more than 50 composers, including Cornelis de Bondt, R. Murray Schafer, and Michel Longtin.

Ray Lynch

Lynch's fifth and most recent album, Ray Lynch: Best Of, Volume One (1998) is a retrospective of his work and includes three new music tracks.

Ray Lynch: Best Of, Volume One

Ray Lynch: Best Of, Volume One is Ray Lynch's fifth album and includes three new music tracks, Ralph's Rhapsody, The Music of What Happens, and a remix of Celestial Soda Pop.

Rex Sinquefield

The areas of interest of the foundation include the Today and Tomorrow Education Foundation, the Children's Education Alliance of Missouri, the Special Learning Center, the Dual Masters Scholarship Program at Saint Louis University, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and the Mizzou New Music Initiative.

Second Viennese School

The term "Third Viennese School" is occasionally used to refer to the composers surrounding the Viennese new music ensemble Klangforum Wien, including its founder Beat Furrer and other late modernists such as Helmut Lachenmann, Olga Neuwirth, Friedrich Cerha and Bernhard Lang.

St. Michel Strings

After being without a permanent conductor for more than 15 years the orchestra in April 2012 appointed Sasha Mäkilä their new Music Director.

Star Wars: Republic Commando

The main bulk of the soundtrack is a break from convention of previous Star Wars games that use abridged versions of John Williams' original score, instead using a combination of Williams' music and new music composed by Jesse Harlin.

Startling Music

After The Beatles broke-up in 1970, Starr wrote or co-wrote much more of his own material for his solo records (with Vini Poncia becoming a longtime collaborator and Harrison teaming up with Starr on "Photograph" and other songs) and Startling Music continued to publish Starr's new music.

Suzanne Stephens

They adopted this name because many of them lived in Oeldorf, a district of the municipality of Kürten, and gave concerts of new music in a barn there.

The Lost Paris Tapes

Some of these recordings were later mixed with new music tracks recorded by surviving Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore, and released as the official Doors album An American Prayer.

The Selector

Originally launched in 2001, The Selector is an international showcase for the best new music the United Kingdom has to offer, covering a variety of genres from indie, dubstep, folk, soul, hip hop and more.

TL Forsberg

Her performances were featured on Much Music, MTV (Fuse), The New Music and City TV, Ozzfest 2006, San Diegos' 105.3 Rock Radio and Hollywoodmusic.tv.

Toimii

Toimii (Finnish "It works") is an ensemble for new music founded in the spring of 1980 by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg with several other young composers and instrumentalists connected with the Sibelius Academy.

Univision Music Group

Univision Music is also at the vanguard of identifying and developing new artists and new music genres, which is evidenced by its leading role and commitment to the unparalleled success of the Urban Regional movement, spearheaded by Platinum-recording and Grammy-nominated Latin Hip Hop sensation Akwid.