johanna magdalena beyer: miscellaneous materials
polansky
8/9/11
(triangle lady, for many years the only "glyph" we had
of Beyer, until the photo below was discovered
by Melissa deGraaf)
Articles and Essays
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!)
Program and Liner Notes
- Liner
notes to Sticky
Melodies, the double CD of Beyer's music on New
World Records (Polansky). Other New World CDs of Beyer's
music are by Doug Perkins (percussion music, notes by John
Kennedy), Miwako Abe (Violin
Sonata), and Margaret Lancaster (Have Faith!)
- 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 Astra Concert in Melbourne, which featured a lot of
Beyer's music (December 7-8, 1996)
- page from Cabrillo concert
program, Music of the
Spheres performance, 1977
- concert
program from 2006 Belgium concert (thanks to Thomas
Smetryns)
Performances
- live performance by clarinetist Molly Paccione,
at Western Illinois University Festival of New Music, of Clarinet
Suite 1b
Scores
- many Beyer scores are available in editions
from frog
peak music,
- a few manuscripts are available here.
(Photo thanks to Melissa deGraaf, who got it from the WPA
Composers' Forum Laboratory documents in the National Archives)