AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                      OHV 160 a-c

Joel Chadabe

with Vincent Plush

Albany, New York 

November 9, 1983

Table of Contents

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-17

Family background -- piano lessons, attending concerts -- playing in jazz bands -- composing at an early age -- composition study with Noam Sokoloff at Mannes School -- study with Elliott Carter at Yale -- fellow students at Yale and Yale music faculty -- style of pieces written in college -- work for Poseidon Steamship Company and travel around the Mediterranean -- study with Elliott Carter in Rome -- year in Berlin with DAAD program -- Aldo Clementi and Franco Evangelisti in Rome -- new music environment in Berlin -- getting to know Babbitt in Darmstadt -- accompanying singers and editing in Rome -- Three Ways of Looking At a Square -- The Harmonica Player -- Prelude to Naples -- influence of Clementi and Evangelisti -- Nono's Il Canto Sospeso -- music scene in American vis á vis European experience -- intuitive feeling for American music -- popularity of Ives in Europe -- attraction to music of John Cage.

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 17-33

Accepting teaching position at Albany -- commissioning Moog Company to build electronic music studio at Albany -- description of electronic music studio -- writing chapter on synthesizers in Appleton book -- Street Scene, earliest tape piece -- Obscure Lady -- electronic music should be different from instrumental music -- musical environment at Albany in mid-sixties -- "Electronic and Experimental Music" concert -- pieces performed at new music concerts -- "Free Music Store" -- collaborations with television people and performers -- lack of success in visual arts -- capabilities of electronic music studio -- electronic performances with Paul Zukofsky -- working with Jan Williams and David Gibson -- Echos, Flowers, Ideas of Movement at Bolton Landing -- Composers' Forum.

Side c                                                                                                             pp. 33-47

Programming of international groups by Composers' Forum -- Composers' Forum Directory and newsletter -- member services -- dividing time between composing and Composers' Forum -- extent to which music from outside New York penetrates new York compositional scene -- Drift -- John Cage and Lukas Foss at Albany studio -- Chamber Music, collaboration with Lukas Foss -- interactive composition -- Settings for Spirituals - Rockefeller Foundation grant -- Max Mathews at IRCAM -- explanation of how computer composes the melody while performing the melody in Solo -- using computer as vehicle for exploring the musical landscape -- writing a pieces for piano -- current projects -- composer as modern troubadour with computer in a suitcase.