AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                       263 d-f

Charles Wuorinen

With Ingram Marshall

New York, N.Y.

June 14, 2002

                                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side d                                                                                                                        pp. 1-20

Music written and performed in the fifties and early sixties: "Music in Our Time" concert series--cantata on psalm texts--three symphonies:  first two performed on "Music in the Making" series, the third by Orchestra of America--Music for Orchestra--more on "Music in Our Time" series--Group for Contemporary Music--training at Columbia University--Willard Rhodes encouragement of Wuorinen--family background--foundation support received--founding of the Group for Contemporary Music--Joel Krosnick--Harvey Sollberger--Nicolas Roussakis--funding, influence and repertory of the Group--Josef Marx--experimenting with chance music--relationship with Otto Luening--activities with musical organizations--recent upsurge in populism--Santa Fe Symposium at which Stravinsky was present--Reliquary--Times Encomium and electronic music.

Side e                                                                                                             pp. 21-41

Working with the RCA Synthesizer--Milton Babbitt--John Chowning--Time's Encomium--Yugoslav-American Seminar on music--Second Piano Concerto--Boulez--playing Boulez' Sonatine--Stockhausen--reception of European vs. American composers in the U.S.--music in the universities--Group for Contemporary Music--getting work at the Manhattan School--repertoire of the Group--interest in non-Western cultures--Flute Variations--String Trio--Works in Progress Series at the Guggenheim--government support of the arts--NEA--Grand Bamboula--establishing personal compositional conventions--Milton Babbitt--Simple Composition--more on Grand Bamboula and other Bamboula pieces.

Side f                                                                                                             pp. 41-55

Residency with San Francisco Orchestra--The Golden Dance--commissioning of Carter's Violin Concerto by the San Francisco Orchestra--Third Piano Concerto--Genesis--religious faith--Taoism--choral pieces: Missa Brevis, Mass, Celestial Sphere--work with New York City Ballet: Reliquary, Five, and others--opera: Haroun and the Sea of Stories--Auden setting: Sept. 11, 2001.