AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                                        298, a-d

Michael Daugherty

With: Jenny Raymond

Ann Arbor, Michigan

July 13, 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-19

Le Tombeau de Couperin -- Metropolis Symphony --Dead Elvis--earliest musical memories--player piano--family background--band: Soul Company--composing with MIDI--studying piano--teaching at University of Michigan--growing up in Iowa--influence of television and movies--connecting with his past--Yale--touring in Kentucky--his brothers and their music-making--lake books--study at North Texas State--James Sellars--piece played by Anshel Brusilow and Dallas Symphony--working at IRCAM--Manhattan School of Music--Charles Wuorinen--Yale--Equipoise--Boulez--Elliott Carter

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 19-35

Fulbright for study at IRCAM--Yale--assisting Willie Ruff--working with Gil Evans--arranging songs for Porgy and Bess--fellowship to Tanglewood--Jacob Druckman--Allen Forte--Gunther Schuller--Theodore Antoniov--Mario Davidovsky--studying with György Ligeti in Hamburg--playing piano bar--traveling in Europe--meeting his wife in London--moving to Amsterdam--interest in MIDI--moving to Princeton.

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 35-55

Getting a doctorate at Yale--lecturing on MIDI--International Computer Music Convention in Vancouver--teaching composition at Oberlin--Snap! Blue like an Orange--Two Bassoons--Bounce--Firecracker--Dead Elvis--Lois--Mxyzptlk--Charles Ives--Fred Steiner of Star Trek--Marcus Stockhausen--Christopher Rouse--David Zinman--Desi--importance of movement in his music--Bazarro--Niagara Falls--Motown Metal--Kronos Quartet--Sing, Sing J. Edgar Hoover--Beat Box--Elvis Everywhere--Steve Reich--Flamingo--Dead Elvis--Jackie O--performers playing in costumes--Charles Ives.

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 55-72

Spaghetti Western--Clichés--Lisa Bilala--Dog’s Desire--Jackie O--Route 66--Sing, Sing J. Edgar Hoover--UFO with Evelyn Glennie--Sunset Strip--Hell’s Angels--his contemporary musical icons--composing and teaching at Michigan--Sunset Strip--Flamingo--piece about Detroit: movement 1, “Pedal to the Metal;” movement 2: “Rosa Parks Boulevard.”