AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                  244 a-d

Ingram Marshall

With Libby Van Cleve

Hamden, Connecticut

March 14, 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-19

Early years (New York, siblings, listening to radio and record player, instrumental and vocal studies, interest in poetry and painting)--studies at Lake Forest College--Columbia--New York--Ussachevsky--Varèse--Ussachevsky--Subotnick--Paris--NYU Composer’s Workshop--Steve Reich--Cal Arts--Indonesian music--compositions using gambuh--The Fragility Cycles--IKON--Serge Tcherepnin and Serge synthesizer--Gradual Requiem.

Side b:                                                                                                           p. 19-37

The Fragility Cycles--Sibelius--IKON--”Ayiasma”--dark and fragile qualities of Marshall’s music--Dark Waters--intuitive approach to form--Sinfonia "Dolce far Niente"--his electronic set up--compositional process--”Non Confundar”--real time processing of instruments--Bruckner--Gradual Requiem--use of voice--father--spirituality--Fog Tropes.

Side c:                                                                                                                        p. 37-55

Fog Tropes--John Adams--Grace Ferguson--California school of composition--Charlemagne Palestine--downtown New York in the seventies--Minimalism--New Romanticism--expressiveness--Modernism--Sinfonia "Dolce far Niente"--recordings--Alcatraz--Eberbach.

Side d:                                                                                                           p. 55-71

Hidden Voices--Peacable Kingdom--Ives--film music--Evensong and hymns--verbal writing--program notes--teaching--promotion--fatherhood--Steve Reich--American Composer’s Orchestra commission--Paul Hillier commission--A Rave--wit in music--Sierran Songs.