Johanna Magdalena Beyer: miscellaneous materials
polansky
7/1/20
(triangle lady, for many years the only "glyph" we had
of Beyer, until the photo below was discovered
by Melissa deGraaf)
Books, Articles and
Essays
- Johanna
Beyer, Amy Beal's biography published by U. of Illinois
Press. (2015)
- article on Beyer :"Total
Eclipse...", from Musical Quarterly,
Winter, 1996, Volume 80, Number 4, pp. 719-778, by John
Kennedy and Larry Polansky
- Amy Beal's biographical
piece on Beyer in the Institute for American Studies
Newsletter (part of a much
larger biographical essay by Beal)
- "Tempo
Melodies
in
the
Johanna Beyer Clarinet Suites (Fourth Movements),"
Marguerite Boland and Larry Polansky (2007-8) (mss. and FP
score for Ib, 4th
movement)
- John Kennedy's original essay
on Beyer for the Essential Music concerts in the late
80s
- Marguerite Boland's analytical article on
Beyer's music
- Melissa deGraaf's essay
in the Institute for
American Studies Newsletter
Biographical
- short bio by me and John Kennedy, used in a number of program
notes, festivals about Beyer (Melbourne, Köln, etc.)
- death
certificate (thanks John)
- birth
records from Leipzig
- (and high res version, zipped, this
is big, only download this!)
- Beyer
grave (name misspelled), photo by John Kennedy (also
photo in Beal biography)
Programs, Liner Notes, Recordings
- Liner notes (Beal) to Clusters, title New
World Records CD of piano music by Rory Cowal, including
first recording of Beyer's Clusters.
- Liner
notes to Sticky
Melodies, the double CD of Beyer's music on New
World Records (notes by Polansky), Astra Chamber
Society, John McCaughey, director.
- Restless,
Endless, Tactless.., Beyer's percussion music, CD on New
World Records, directed by Doug Perkins (notes by John
Kennedy)
- Miwako Abe's recording of the Suite for Violin and Piano
on New
World Records, (notes by Amy Beal)
- Margaret Lancaster and Beth Griffith's
recording of Have Faith!
on New
World Records (notes
by John Kennedy)
- Program
notes for a Köln concert of several of Beyer's works
(Polansky)
- Liner
notes for the Sarah Cahill piano
music of Beyer and RCS recording on New Albion records
(Polansky)
- Scans of some pages
from the two nights of Astra Concerts of Beyer's music, in
Melbourne, directed by John McCaughey, (December
7–8, 1996)
- Page from Cabrillo Music
Festival concert program, Music of the Spheres performance, 1977
- Concert
program from 2006 Belgium concert (thanks to Thomas
Smetryns)
- Concert of
Beyer's music, UC Santa Cruz, 5/1/2013, directed
by Amy Beal, guest artist Rory Cowal: introduction
(Beal), concert
program, pictures, recordings.
- Multi-concert
festival of Beyer's music ("Ny Musik,")
directed by Björn Nilsson, 2/6–7, 2016, Caroli
förshamlingshem, Boras, Sweden. Includes string
quartets, percussion music, chamber music, vocal
music. Press
clippings about that festival.
- Program,
Southland Ensemble, Music of Johanna Beyer, 4/6/19
Performances
- Live performance by clarinetist Molly Paccione,
Western Illinois University Festival of New Music, of Clarinet
Suite 1b, 1998
- Conny Karlsson Lundgren's performance piece
The Spheres, 2015
- Diana Policarpo's "performance art" work
on Music of the Spheres, 2015
Scores
- 30 Beyer score editions (and more in the works), containing
editorial notes and facsimiles of original
manuscripts, are available in editions from Frog
Peak Music.
- a growing number of scans of original
manuscripts available here
(Photo thanks to Melissa deGraaf, who got it from the WPA
Composers' Forum Laboratory documents in the National Archives)