The Fractal Music of Charles Wuorinen

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:22 I: The Serial Question
0:08:34 II: Time Points and Fractals
0:16:35 III: The Group for Contemporary Music
0:23:35 IV: The Columbia Fiasco
0:40:05 V: Conservative, or Revolutionary?
0:53:01 VI: The End of the Group
0:59:35 VII: High Culture
1:06:12 VIII: The Legacy

📚 Sources/further reading:
“Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Bibliography” by Richard D. Burbank (Greenwood Press, 1994)
“Simple Composition” by Charles Wuorinen (C.F. Peters, 1979)
“Soundpieces: Interviews with American Composers” by Cole Gagne and Tracy Caras (Scarecrow Press, 1982)
https://www.charleswuorinen.com/
“The Piano Sonatas of Charles Wuorinen: An Evolution of Style” by Joseph C. Schiavo (PhD dissertation, Rutgers, 2006)
“Notes on the Performance of Contemporary Music” by Charles Wuorinen — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn–Winter, 1964), pp. 10-21
“The Group for Contemporary Music, 1962 to 1992” by Susan Elizabeth Deaver (DMA dissertation, MSM, 1993): https://www.stokar.com/site/assets/fi...
“The Recent Music of Charles Wuorinen” by Jeffrey Kresky — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, 25th Anniversary Issue (Winter–Summer, 1987), pp. 410-417
“Charles Wuorinen's Third Piano Sonata: A Performer's Perspective” by Alan Feinberg — Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer 2018), pp. 55-66
"A Conversation with Charles Wuorinen" by James Romig: https://www.jamesromig.com/uploads/5/...
https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/charles-...
https://www.drapersguild.com/my-life-...
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/08/ar...
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Music (all by Charles Wuorinen):

New York Notes for Pierrot Ensemble, performed by Will Adams, Alex Dergal, Will Crock, an unknown cellist, Louis Pino, and Amanda Lubin
Music for Orchestra, performers unknown (possibly the Columbia University Orchestra)
Janissary Music, performed by Brandon Lim
The Blue Bamboula, performed by Alan Feinberg
String Trio, performers unknown (possibly Rolf Schulte, John Graham, and Fred Sherry)
Percussion Symphony, performed by the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble conducted by Peter Jarvis
Time’s Encomium
Iridule, performed by Andrew Blanke and Ensemble id conducted by Edo Frenkel
Piano Sonata No. 3, performed by Alan Feinberg
Brokeback Mountain, performed by the chorus and orchestra of the Teatro Real de Madrid
Genesis, performed by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minnesota Chorale conducted by Edo deWaart
Microsymphony, performers unknown (possibly the Philadelphia Orchestra)
Xenolith, performed by Lois Martin and Michael Truesdell

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