AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 239 a-d
Scott Lindroth
with Vivian Perlis
Durham, NC
January 21 & 22, 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Side a: pp.1-20
Early years--influences--piano playing--Eastman School of Music--other musical talents--high school music exposure--current approach to composing and performing-- Relations to Rigor--first works--high school bands and band camps--Fond du Lac--family and friends--Varèse--Clash and Glitter--choosing colleges--Eastman's notable faculty and administrators--music exposure and curriculum--Chasing the Trane Out of Darmstadt.
Side b: pp.20-40
Chasing the Trane Out of Darmstadt--working with Andy Sterman--Pieces of Piano-- enthusiasm--ISCM competition--Eastman vs. Juilliard--Tom Dickenson--Cleveland Quartet--job at Strassenberg Planetarium--music and film--John Corigliano--Copland-- Elliott Carter--Lutoslawski--Deborah Whitman, sculptor--Warren Benson--composer's seminar at Yale--Jacob Druckman--Yale Composer's League--relations between composers--A Fire's Bright Song--Cesare Padesi [sp]
Side c: pp.40-60
January Music--composing--revision--family and credibility--post‑Yale years--Italy-- Two-Part Invention-- Relations to Rigor-- and Syntax-- E.A.R. Unit--California--Stomp-- Treatise on Tailor's Dummies--Street of Crocodiles--NYC--DMA--Guggenheim Fellowship--In the Middle of the Road--tribute to Philip Sousa--William Smith--Luis Biava-- Philadelphia Orchestra--Chicago Symphony commission.
Side d: pp.60-72
Meloncholia I engraving--setting poetry to music--Elizabeth Bishop--Bruno
Schulz--Carlos Drummond de Andrade--Duo for Violins--Concerti Grossi by Corelli--
teaching at Duke--Our Tirtie-- William James--A Pluralistic Universe-- Corn
Palace Festival--Light-- DMA.
AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 239 e
Scott Lindroth
Yale Composer’s Seminar
with Jacob Druckman
New Haven, CT
January 31, 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Side e pp. 1-15
January Music--performance by Philadelphia Orchestra--predilection for long melodic cycles--phrase structure--importance of large scale gestures--Duo for violins--coda--harmonic level--hocketing mechanism between the two violins--using numbers to generate rhythms--Big Band--rhythmic manipulation--orchestration--postmodernism--analysis of Janacek’s Makroupoulos Affair--Quartet II.
AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 239 f-g
Scott Lindroth
with Libby Van Cleve
New Haven, CT
February 9, 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Side f: pp.1-18
Big Band--Chasing the Trane Out of Darmstadt--talks about commissions--Shulamit Ran--use of numbers in his works--Relations to Rigor--January Music--the state of orchestras today and their relation to the community around them--Quartet II--Terza Rima--use of MAX electronic music program in Terza Rima.
Side g: pp. 18-33
effects internet might have on music--how living outside New York has affected his career--importance of local activism by composers--his CD that is coming out soon--effects of jazz and popular music on himself and other composers--his views on serialism and individualism--how world is today for composers--two compositions not yet completed, one for string quartet, the other for two marimbas.