Music 230

Seminar in Contemporary Opera

 

Richard Kennel, "Feet in the Mud, Head in the Clouds: Comparing Two Portrait Operas by Philip Glass"

Video excerpt of The Perfect American

Video excerpt of Akhnaten

 

Grigorios Mathioudakis, "Iannis Xenakis' Oresteia (1965-66) and Aeschylus' Oresteia"

YouTube excerpt of Oresteia

 

Paul David Flood, "Idyll and Catastrophe in Per Nørgård's Det Guddommelige Tivoli (1982)"

Video excerpt of Part I: Paeans with fall

Video excerpt of Part II: The automatic dancing disc

Video excerpt of Part IX: The Ride

Video excerpt of Psychosis III

Video excerpt of XII: Halleluja

 

Pedro Sperb, "Peking Opera influences in Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul"

What is Peking Opera?

Peking Opera Instruments; Let's strike a chord

Traditional Music Theater of Asia (Kabuki, Peking Oepra, Wayang Kulit)

What You Don't Know About China - Peking Opera

 

James Ilgenfritz, "Distributed embodiment and temporality in recent operas"

Excerpt from Pauline Oliveros/Opera Povera: Full Pink Moon:

Complete Full Pink Moon

Ezcerpt in Spanish of Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives/Vidas Perfectas, El Patio De Atras (The Backyard)

Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives/Vidas Perfectas, El Patio De Atras (The Backyard)

Excerpt from James Ilgenfritz/William Burroughs, The Ticket that Exploded

Deleted Scenes from James Ilgenfritz/William Burroughs

Trailer for The Industry/Du Yun & Raven Chacon, Sweet Land

 

Isaac Otto, "Trillium: Millennial Gesamtkunstwerk"

Trailer for Anthony Braxton, Trillium J

Trillium J excerpt for small ensemble