Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial composer

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt (Philadelphia, 1916 - Princeton, 2011) died Saturday, 29 January 2011 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt. It was a quirky, loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of "difficult" music. Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009. Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilferty's film.

Entrevista a José M. Sánchez-Verdú

Programa de mano - TVE 
02.01.2011

El primer programa del año es un monográfico dedicado a la figura de José María Sánchez-Verdú (Algeciras, 1968), que ha pasado por el plató del programa. Este prestigioso compositor es uno de los músicos del momento a escala mundial: ha recibido premios internacionales de composición y se han programado conciertos monográficos sobre su obra en Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Múnich, Düsseldorf y Lima. Además, ha sido compositor en residencia del Carinthischer Sommer Festival (Austria), de la Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Alemania), del Jünger Künstler Festival de Bayreuth y del V Festival de Música Contemporánea de Lima (Perú), entre otros.

En la larga trayectoria de este músico, de 43 años, se suman varias obras escénicas han sido programadas en la Staatsoper de Berlín, la Deutsche Oper de Berlín, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, Bienal de Múnich, Teatro de Lucerna, Teatro Real de Madrid o el Teatro de la Zarzuela. Como director ha trabajado con destacados grupos de música actual y con numerosas orquestas en España. Sobre su música y su técnica de composición ha hablado con Clara Sanchís. En el programa podremos escuchar fragmentos de “Arquitecturas del vacío”, compuesta como homenaje a las víctimas del 11-M, o de la ópera Gramma.

Brian Ferneyhough Interview

Institute of Musical Research
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Genesis of his 6th String Quartet

Carter on Carter

The first film in a new series of interviews with Elliott Carter(New York, 1908 - New York, 2012) charts his early years in New York, at Harvard University and studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Filmed at his Manhattan apartment in June 2010 the interview is combined with music including Holiday Overture, Symphony No.1 and String Quartet No.1.

The second, filmed at his Manhattan apartment in 2010, focuses on two major scores, the Symphony of Three Orchestras and his opera What Next?

The third and final film, filmed at his Manhattan apartment in 2010, explores his creative motivations as a composer. The 102-year-old composer reflects on setting the words of poets and remembers student days with Gustav Holst.

The Carter on Carter web documentaries are presented by Boosey & Hawkes and directed by Tommy Pearson of Red Ted Films.

The film was produced with thanks to:
Associated Music Publishers / G. Schirmer, Inc.
Bridge Records
Naxos
Elektra Nonesuch

Helmut Lachenmann and Seth Brodsky in discussion

Helmut Lachenmann (Stuttgart, 1935) in conversation with Seth Brodsky (Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Chicago), filmed at New York’s Miller Theatre. 

Residency and production support provided by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. Recorded between March 27 and March 28, 2010 in the Concert Hall of EMPAC.

Los oficios de la cultura - Dirección de orquesta - Jesús López Cobos

Director de orquesta. Jesús L. Cobos

Jesús López Cobos (Toro, 1940)

Varèse the one all alone

Frank Scheffer - 2009

Elliott Carter in conversation with Steven Stucky

New York Philharmonic / 13.12.2008

A film made for and premiered at the New York Philharmonic's "Day of Carter" on Saturday, December 13, 2008. The film features Elliott Carter (New York, 1908 - New York, 2012) in conversation with composer Steven Stucky.

OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL 11: Panel Discussion + CONCERT 2

7:00 pm: Theatre
PANEL DISCUSSION
Maria de Alvear, Fred Frith, moderated by Charles Amirkhanian

Harry Partch, the outsider / BBC documentary

Darren Chesworth /BBC - 2002

Harry Partch (Oakland, 1901 - Encinitas, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales. He built custom-made instruments in these tunings on which to play his compositions, and described his theory and practice in his book Genesis of a Music (1947 and 1974).