Re: MicroMay '99 - Microthon! Sunday May 23

Microthon Sunday -- an all-day microtonal concert -- will take place on May
23rd at the New York University Physics Auditorium (6 Washington Place) in
NYC. Music begins at 10 AM and continues until 9 PM with 2 meal breaks.

Admission is $5 for the day. Wim Hoogewerf begins the concert playing
Renaissance works on a just intonation guitar by Luys Milan, Alonso Mudarra,
and Luys de Narvacz. David Beardsley presents his just "Sonic Bloom" followed
by Franz Kamin's microtonally inflected "People's Song." Erik Nauman and
Douglas, follow and then music of Rick Sanford, Mayumi Reinhard, Virgil
Thomson (finlly allowing
12-TET as another possible tuning in the myriad of tuning arrangements),
Alois Haba (first American performance of Suite for guitar), Joji Yuasa, my
Zanzibar Duo for 2 Bassoons (polymicrotonal), ending with John Cage's
"Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano featuring Joshua Pierce on a
naturally untuned instrument.

Following a 1-hour lunch break, the music begins again at 2PM with Violetta
Dinescu's cello solo "Intarsien," next is Joel Mandelbaum, David Rosenboom,
Sasha Boganowitch, Adam Silverman Kraig Grady, David Simon, Howard Rovics,
Harry Partch "Barstow" with Toronto's Critical Band, Ivor Darreg, John
Gzowski, Warren Burt, Al Giusto, Dick Visser, Anton Rovner, Skip LaPlante (a
17-TET quartet), Meredith Bordin, and Jacques Dudon.

Following a 1-hour dinner break, music continues with Elodie Lauten's "XX"
for the composer a the synthesizer and flutist Andrew Bolotowsky. The
program finishes with music of Brian McLaren, Patrick Grant (and the Patrick
Grant Group), Carl Lumma, Bill Sethares, Paul Erlich, David First, and
ensmeble featuring thereminist Eric Ross, and a solo by Joe Monzo.

BTW, breakast will be made available during the first block.

MicroMay '99 begins on May 20th and ends on May 27th, both of these concerts
at Columbia University's St. Paul's Chapel. The Microthon is on May 23rd at
the NYU Physics Auditorium.

For further information, check the American Festival of Microtonal Music web
site:

http://www.echonyc.com/com/~jhhl/afmm

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of
Microtonal Music

The web site for the American Festival of Microtonal Music was incorrectly
spelled out. The site is at:

http://www.echonyc.com/~jhhl/afmm

Johnny Reinhard
AFMM