Miscellaneous Documents
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Mills (1980s)
- Seminar in Formal Methods Series
- Announcement
for a lecture on Ruth Crawford Seeger to Anthony
Braxton's Women in Music Class
- "American Music" class flyer
- East Bay Express, "Best of..."
(about CCM)
- Three press
releases: Seminar in Formal Methods Series (Spring ,1986);
Ruth Crawford Seeger Concert; Mark Trayle/Fred Frith Concert,
2/28/87
- Announcement/description
(?) of Stephen Ratcliffe and LP performing Campion Songs
- Lecture
Notes and handout
for Mills Faculty Colloquium ("Formal Theories of Musical
Syntax"), 4/21/83
- CCM
Description (1987, in-house document)
- Rough version of liner
notes for Hallways (HMSL) CD, unformatted draft of
what appeared on the CD
- Mills
Contemporary Ensemble Program, April, 1083. With premiere
of Tenney's Chromatic Canon, and music by Glass, Nyman, Nixon,
Ives, and others.
- New
Instrumentation and Orchestration (An Outline for Study).
Syllabus/guide/text for orchestration class at Mills. 1986.
Published (out of print) by Frog Peak Music. This is a
manuscript, with some small cosmetic errors.
Programs, Flyers
- Stanford Concert
(CCRMA), ensemble freeHorn, guitar duets, 1/28/16
- [sic]
Music concert, 2/1/15, directed by David Mahler (text
pieces)
- Second Act concert,
3/15 (Fiore and LP); TimeOut NYC
critic's pick for Fiore/LP
- UCSC New Music Ensemble
concert 2015
- miscellaneous other
materials (unlinked)
- Cage,
Lecture on the Weather, Evenings for New Music,
10/16/76 (American Premiere)
- James Tenney, Complete
Guitar Music, concert, UC Santa Cruz, 4/10/17; concert,
same pieces, Center for Contemporary Music, San Francisco,
4/18/15
- Buy One for
Spare Parts Concert, with Phil Stone, Phil Burk, Network
Muse Series, The Lab, San Francisco. Early HMSL concert
- Songs
and Toods/Piker, Center for New Music Concert, San
Francisco, 2015
- HMSL Solo
Concert, Roulette, NY, 1987 (B'rey'sheet, Simple
Actions, Cocks Crow..., 17 Simple Melodies);
with Daniel Goode, Jody Diamond, Philip Corner.
- HMSL Solo Concert, Langton
Arts, San Francisco, 1988. With George Brooks, Jeanne
Parson, Phil Burk, Jody Diamond, Anne LaBerge, Melody Sumner. B'rey'sheet,
Simple Actions, Cocks Crow..., 17 Simple
Melodies, V'leem'shol.
- Experimental
Intermedia Concert, NY, 1986, with Anne LaBerge,
Anita Feldman, William Winant, Gary Schall. Three Monk Tunes,
Four Voice Canons, Cantillation Studies #1 and
#2
- "A Totally Different
Rag", lecture performance by Amy Beal; LP, mandolin, music
by May Aufterheide and David Mahler, Oakmont, CA, 2015. Notes
- The
Uniquely American Spirit of Ragtime, lecture performance
by Amy Beal; LP, mandolin, mandocello, electric guitar. Oakmont,
CA, 2019.
KPFA Radio Shows (1980s)
- miscellaneous playlists on KPFA
from shows hosted with Jody Diamond (or by her) from the
1980s–1990s (Indonesian contemporary music, Thin Edge of the
Wedge, Jerry Hunt, computer music, CCM composers, Lois V Vierk,
David Mahler, James Tenney, I Wayan Sadra, Nano S, Nyoman
Windha)
Miscellaneous (other people, etc.)
- Just Intonation Network,
initial announcement flyer
- Colvig:
An American Gamelan
- Harrison:
Tuning and temperament diagrams
- Short email
correspondence with Sarah Smiley re: Dirk (,) Rodney
- Program book for Christian
Wolff at Dartmouth Festival, October, 2015
- Description of
London WhiteChapel Museum exhibit of computer music languages,
featuring HMSL, by Luke Fowler
- List
of cassette collection, mostly of other people's work,
compiled 2009, given to Fales Collection, NYU, 2014. 633
cassettes. (Many typos)
Miscellaneous Letters, Public, and others
- Letter
to Runnemede School, Lebanon, NH, regarding religious
celebrations in the schools, 1998
- Letter
to Ethnomusicology ListServ, re cross-cultural studies,
1992
- Letter
to East Bay Express, re: review of the music of John
Adams, 1993
- Letter to US
Postal Service recommending Ruth Crawford Seeger for a U.S
postage stamp, 2001
- Letter to Valley News encouraging the continuation
of Mary Holland's naturalist column
- Letter to Mills College President Mary Metz recommending honorary
doctorate for Lou Harrison, 1987
- Letter to group
of fretless guitar players, on email, 1999
Miscellaneous Research Materials
Miscellaneous Personal Information