AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                             385 a-c                        OHV

Philip Corner

With Malcolm Goldstein

Reggio Emilia, Italy

January 27, 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                      pp. 1- 30.

Beginning studies in music at the age of thirteen—learning trombone at Music and Art—composing large scale pieces—studying composition—his Rondo for Trombone and Piano—studying with Otto Luening at Columbia—Pot Piece—Passionate Expanse of the Law—A Concoction—Pot Piece—study at CCNY—studying piano and composition with Fritz Jahoda—interviews at various universities—getting a grant to go to France—Milton Babbitt—attending Messiaen’s class—studying Messaien’s music on his own—Modes de valeurs et d’intensités—influence of Messaien upon him—Etincelles—studying juxtapositions of colors in the stained glass windows in Notre Dame Cathedral—returning to the U.S. to study at Columbia—Pot Piece—A Concoction—conservativeness in composition of the American students.

Side b                                                                                      pp. 30-61

Sonatas for Orchestra—going to South Korea—Flux and Form piano pieces—Sang-teh—Concert in Reykjavik—reading arranged by Byung-ki Huang—notation—improvisation—Earle Brown and indeterminacy in notation—Lifework: A Unity—

Gamelan Concerto—more on Lifework—John Cage—coming back to the U.S. in the sixties—Judson Dance Theater—Tone Roads—Fluxus—Mississippi River South of Memphis—his influence on Malcolm Goldstein—Judson—Tone Roads—Living Theater—working with Julie Portman—Dick Higgins—Alison Knowles—Fluxus---Robert Dunne—jazz—Son of Lion Gamelan—Dan Goode and electronic music—teaching at Rutgers—creating a theory program.

Side c                                                                                      pp. 60-94

Barbara Benary, the Asian music performance group—Son of Lion Gamelan—Burdocks by Christian Wolff—Outer Ear: Birds in Tree—writing pieces for the Gamelan—performing—whole series of gamelan pieces in Frog Peak catalogue—piano solos and piano duets—Delicate Computations—Pulse—writing an article—Experimental Intermedia—Gamelan Antipodes—Fluxus—George Maciunas—Fluxus show in Italy—Air Effect—Passionate Expanse of the Law—Air Effect—Moving Piece—Punishment Piece—Ink Marks for Performance—Fluxus—Intermedia—John Cage—support of the Italian galleries—Leo Castelli—support and interest in his work in Italy—consumption of popular American culture in Italy—deciding to go to Italy.