AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              249a-d

Chris Theofanidis

with Libby Van Cleve

New Haven, CT

May 27, 1997

                                                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sides a and b (DAT 1):                                                                                           p. 1-43

      Musical activities of parents--early music training--father’s musical training schooling,“Revenge of the Taco”--physical handicap--writing music instead of performing--attending Eastman--studying with Samuel Adler; Sikelianos--studying with Joseph Schwantner--self promotion and business aspects--George Crumb--role of publishers and publishing--Non-Western music influences--being Greek--effect of silence--Copland--tonality, atonality--attending Yale--Jacob Druckman--Martin Bresnick--other musical influences--attitudes of composition--IRCAM--writing complex music--integration of different styles--analyzing the 20th century--American composers.

Sides c and d (DAT 2):                                                                                           p. 43

      Greek influence in music--California Symphony: Composer in Residence--

      recent commissions--programmatic music--genesis of Metaphysica--accessibility--

      controlling harmony--writing for film--writing for orchestra--Bassoon Concerto--

      pop music influence--minimalism--recordings, recording big orchestra pieces--

      Internet advances--functioning in New York--the Houston scene--Houston

      Contemporary Music Festival--status of 20th or 21st century composer--questions

      about the turn of the century--mom’s influence.