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AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 324 d-j OH V

Stephen Hartke

with Eva Soltes

Glendale, California

January 6 and 7, 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[DAT 1]

Side d pp. 1-26

First attempts at composition—father’s interest in music—early piano study—job with professional choir--being an understudy at the Met—playing recorder—learning Hindemith and Stravinsky—seeing Stravinsky conduct—learning about John Cage—interest in New York avant-garde scene—doing copying to make money—undergrad work at Yale: being “scholar of the house”—chamber composition—The Hunting of the Snark—First Symphony—studying composition at Penn—study with Rochberg and Crumb.

Side e pp. 26-53

Study with Crumb—playing the piano, conducting—Richard Wernick—work at Galaxy Publishing—doctoral study at UC Santa Barbara—Caoine—Iglesia Abandonada—Sons of Noah (cantata)—Caoine—Iglesia Abandonada—working at Presser—interest in Shetland Island folk fiddling—fascination with instruments—arranging a piece for Renaissance ensemble—his love for early music—Charles Ives—abstract vs. program music—Conlon Nancarrow—Ives’s Third Symphony—Sonata-Variations—Caoine and Iglesia—more opportunities in Santa Barbara as opposed to the East Coast—situation on the West Coast—Copland—getting a Fulbright to study in Brazil—learning Portuguese—Alvorada—Portuguese madrigals and songs—Violin Sonata.

[DAT 2]

Side f pp. 53-81

Sonata—Oh Them Rats is Mean in my Kitchen—Second Symphony—Third Symphony—piano quartet—George Rochberg—Charles Ives Living—commission for Glimmerglass opera—subject of the opera: Boule de Suif or the Good Whore, story by De Maupassant—Clarinet Concerto—dance—concurrent polymetric layers—Elliott Carter—Gustav Mahler—admiration for Medieval and Renaissance composers—King of the Sun—composing—chorus, oboe and strings piece—church music—texts for his choral piece.

Side g pp. 81-110

Violin Concerto—Clarinet Concerto—blues—griot music—teaching—working in music publishing—Charlemagne Palestine—King of the Sun—Pacific Rim—Wulfstan at the Millennium—gagaku—San Francisco—Hilliard Songbook—texts—Tituli—accessibility—high modernism—need to cut off the emotions after the war—how the Pulitzer is awarded—John Adams—Steve Reich—Benjamin Lees—listening habits—idea of a “university composer.”

Side h pp. 110-136

Second Symphony—Schnittke’s Fourth Symphony—NY Philharmonic commission for his Third Symphony—working with the Hilliard Ensemble and other groups—The Ascent of the Equestrian in a Balloon—Whitaker readings for ACO—setting the tempo—violin sonata—collaboration—Post-Modern Homages—Concerto with Shetland theme—Ives—exposure to music of the postmodern composer—Lou Harrison—Symphony No. 3—reviews—lack of reviews of him in California.

Side i pp. 136-164

California compared to New York—John Adams—experimental music—Henry Cowell—George Lewis—jazz—improvisation—Lukas Foss—involvement with New York Pro Musica—King of the Sun—Wulfstan at the Millennium—Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain—understudying at the Met—Pacific Rim—Sibelius—Tituli.

Side j pp. 164-173