Playlist for Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - June 7, 2003 Show 418

"Neo-Melo" Guest Composer 180 Barry Drogin (and Baruch Skeer)

  • 00:00:00 Parody on Richard Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersinger, excerpt
  • 00:00:49 Virtuoso Alice for piano by David Del Tredici with monologue
  • 00:14:10 Piece is named, next piece is named
  • 00:15:43 Not the Right Balloon by David Gunn
  • 00:21:50 Piece is named
  • 00:22:21 Introduction of guest Barry Drogin
  • 00:23:35 Names teachers Steve Wilson, Mark Kroll, Scott Wheeler, Elie Seigmeister, talks about hand-inking onion skin scores and Associated Music Copy Service
  • 00:25:50 Mentions order of Finale Music Notation Software, Kalvos mentions Barry is electrical engineer, Barry talks about Laurie Spiegel, tells high school SATB computer program story, mentions Manifesto and its violation
  • 00:28:49 Station ID by Barry Drogin and Baruch Skeer mixed with Poulenc's Gloria
  • 00:30:50 Asked what piece to play first
  • 00:32:00 Love Poems from the Sanskrit by Barry Drogin
  • 00:40:25 Piece is named and described, asked where it was performed
  • 00:41:05 Contrasts various personalities to music composition
  • 00:43:19 Unaccompanied melody - in synagogue as Orthodox Jew, as madrigal singer, discusses three a cappella moments in Love and Idols/A Jewish Opera
  • 00:46:00 Describes rejection of electronic music, abandonment of piano, transition to a cappella voice
  • 00:47:40 Describes music of Love Poems from the Sanskrit
  • 00:49:15 Unaccompanied melody and each note being its own universe
  • 00:50:49 Mentions was Sondheim/Bernstein freak in college, and exhaustion of using vamps as variation or canon as structure
  • 00:52:41 Talks about taking acting classes, about theory of melodic gesture, about realizing that Hebraic chant is a setting of text, about musicological history of variations in Hebraic chants throughout world, about theological oneness of Jewish "orthogonal Set"
  • 00:56:53 Introduction of Amidah and Alamo!
  • 00:58:25 Amidah from Love and Idols by Baruch Skeer
  • 01:02:45 Alamo! (the short version) by Barry Drogin
  • 01:09:07 Pieces are named, describes Alamo! text and audience reactions, names website, credits Dora Ohrenstein
  • 01:12:00 Mentions NewOp meeting where Alamo! was first performed, discusses NewOp and development of its "theme song," credits Eric Salzman for pun
  • 01:15:40 NewOp Doo Wop by Barry Drogin performed live in studio
  • 01:18:08 Kalvos makes pun about not being "cued Op" for chorus, recent Texaco non-sponsorship of Met broadcasts, "glass of Texaco" joke
  • 01:19:06 Discussion about OPERA America, Central Opera Service, Kalvos mocks Washington, DC, Barry apologizes to Diana Hossack, mentions C-Opera listserv
  • 01:22:39 Introduces Typhoid Mary
  • 01:23:28 Overture from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
  • 01:24:37 Danse Macabre from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
  • 01:29:39 Epilogue from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
  • 01:33:15 Pieces are named and discussed
  • 01:35:30 Station ID by Barry Drogin and Baruch Skeer (without mix)
  • 01:36:19 Talks about Epilogue and association with father's death
  • 01:37:10 Kalvos asks about tonality of Beth Anderson, Michael Sahl, Eric Salzman, Barry talks about putting important musical material in text, mentions studying with Gil Robbins and writing for voice, talks about Occasional Singers, and unique tonality and logic of each choral piece
  • 01:43:41 Kalvos asks about Stravinsky, Barry talks about Scott Wheeler and Stravinsky's Mass
  • 01:45:51 Praises and criticizes amateur choruses
  • 01:47:12 Brings up 9/11, thanks David Rodwin and RIMT, dedicates piece to Martha Schlamme
  • 01:50:55 After from September 11 Songs sung live in studio
  • 01:53:15 Talks about September 11 Songs and being 9/11 "poster boy of new music"
  • 01:55:31 Describes other meanings of Not Nice Music, returns to 9/11 experience, mentions Kyle Gann guestbook, calls Eve Belgarian "poster girl," gives further description of September 11 Songs and recounts experience, recommends going to website
  • 01:58:42 End of interview, mutual thank yous
  • 01:58:50 Mention of future guests
  • 01:59:22 Essay for Virtual Orchestra by Jerry Gerber
  • 02:00:36 End of show