Faculty recital series: James A. Winn and Ketty Nez, April 17, 2011

This is the concert program of the Faculty recital series: James A. Winn and Ketty Nez performance on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 4:00 p.m., at the Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Sonata for Flute and Piano by Walter Piston, Sonata no. 2 for Flute and Piano by Martin Amlin, Paraphrases for Flute Alone by Mark Zuckerman, Divertimento on Discobbolic Fragments by Peter Westergaard, and the moon passes over by Ketty Nez. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Time's Arrow, March 22, 2012

This is the concert program of the Time's Arrow performance on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 8:00 p.m., at The Art Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Swell Piece #3 by James Tenney, Quartet in F by Larry Polansky, Harmonium #5 by James Tenney, Six Declarations by Larry Polansky, Harmonium #7 by James Tenney, from Tetherballs by Larry Polansky, Cellogram by James Tenney, 23 Chords by Larry Polansky, Diaphonic Toccata by James Tenney, and Ensembles of Note by Larry Polansky. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Electronic Locator of Vertical Interval Successions (ELVIS): The first large data-driven research project on musical style

The ELVIS project had three locally based teams (in Canada, at McGill, in Scotland, at Aberdeen, and in New England, USA, divided between MIT, the lead, and Yale), each of which focused on a different aspect of the overall research program: using computers to understand musical style. The central unifying concept of the ELVIS project was to study counterpoint: the way combinations of voices in polyphonic music (e.g. the soprano and bass voices in a hymn, or the viola and cello in a string quartet, as well as combinations of more than two voices) interact: i.e. what are the permissible vertical intervals (notes from two voices sounding at the same time) for a particular period, genre, or style. These vertical intervals, connected by melodic motions in individual voices, constitute Vertical Interval Successions. In more modern terms, this could be described as harmonic progressions of chords, but what made ELVIS particularly flexible was its ability to bridge the gap to earlier, contrapuntally-conceived music by using the diad (a two-note combination) rather than the triad (a combination of three notes in particular arrangements) as a basis (since triads and beyond may be expressed as sums of diads)

Faculty recital series: Ketty Nez and Katie Wolfe with Andrew Shenton, October 27, 2006

This is the concert program of the faculty recital of Ketty Nez, Katie Wolfe, and Andrew Shenton on Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. at TIME, at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Théme et Variations by Oliver Messiaen, wrestless by Ketty Nez, In Variations by Robert Morris, Those Infernal Exsanguinators by Tom Schnauber, and Capriccio by David Dzubay. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Boston University Wind Ensemble, October 7, 2010

This is the concert program of the Boston University Wind Ensemble performance on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein, Apothesis of this Earth by Karel Husa, The Good Soldier Schweik Suite by Robert Kurka, and Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Boston University Chamber Orchestra, November 18, 2004

This is the concert program of the Boston University Chamber Orchestra performance on Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" S. 3 (K. IA3) by Charles Ives, Serenade in E minor for strings, Op. 20 by Edward Elgar, and "Danses Concertantes" by Igor Stravinsky. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Xanthos Ensemble, April 8, 2009

This is the concert program of the Xanthos Ensemble performance on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., at Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Khan Variations, Tumblers, and Cuaderno del Ritmo by Alejandro Viñao. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Faculty recital series: "The Two Composers", April 18, 2009

This is the concert program of the Faculty recital series: "The Two Composers" performance on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 7:30 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Catapult by Mark Berger, A Bird came down the Walk by Toru Takemitsu, wind down ii by Ketty Nez, Scherzo by Richard Cornell, The Viola in My Life III by Morton Feldman, and Viola Sonata, op. 74 by George Walker. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Boston University Percussion Ensemble: Blossom and Bell, March 21, 2016

This is the concert program of the Boston University Percussion Ensemble: Blossom and Bell performance on Monday, March 21, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Flex by Mark Berger, Red Arc/Blue Veil by John Luther Adams, A Flower by John Cage, Mantra II by Ramon Humet, Percussion Quartet by Alfred Schnittke, and Carillon Ritual by Philip Grange. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund