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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Post a song from the year you turned 12. To make this consistent with the focus of my account, here's Meredith Monk's ATLAS, which premiered in 1992: #ContemporaryClassical #Opera #MeredithMonk #Atlas www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tlj...

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Atlas, Pt. 1, Personal Climate: Overture (Out of Body 1)

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

In honor of the 6.7 magnitude #earthquake we just had in #SanDiego, here's Harrison Birtwistle's masterpiece "Earth Dances", which IMO could be called "The British 'Rite of Spring'": #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #HarrisonBirtwistle #EarthDances #orchestral www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WFy...

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Birtwistle: Earth Dances

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Sofia Gubaidulina passed away yesterday at the age of 93. She was undeniably the most famous Soviet woman composer, and after the collapse of the USSR she moved to Germany, where she spent the remainder of her life. One of my favorite pieces of hers, in an album with one of my favorite M. C. Escher

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

To celebrate World Book Day, I wanted to post a musical piece with a literary association, and it just happens that I'm reading Paradise Lost by John Milton at the moment (in the Harvard Classics, Vol. 4, a complete collection of Milton's English-language poetry). In 1978, Krzysztof Penderecki wrote

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I saw David Lynch's last feature film Inland Empire yesterday, and it featured several works by the late Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020). This is the complete list of works in the film. #KrzysztofPenderecki #ContemporaryClassical #ModernClassical www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOHK...

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De Natura Sonoris No. 1 (1994 Remastered Version)

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Since it's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, here are three pieces inspired by the civil rights leader and a bonus fourth. #MLK #MLKDay #ContemporaryClassical #LucianoBerio www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3lL...

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Luciano Berio: O King (1967)

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I was saddened to hear of the death of David Lynch, so in memory of him I present an operatic adaptation of his film Lost Highway by the great contemporary composer Olga Neuwirth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKJ1... #DavidLynch #RIP #LostHighway #OlgaNeuwirth #ContemporaryClassical #ContemporaryOpera

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Lost Highway (2002/03) : Begin

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In memoriam James Joyce, who died on this day, January 13, in 1941, here are three contemporary pieces inspired by the works of James Joyce. First, Luciano Berio's Thema (Omaggio a Joyce), with text from Ulysses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uIv... #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #LucianoBerio

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Luciano Berio: Omaggio a Joyce (1958)

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A very apt quote for the QuillAnon people who think that Shakespeare's works were written by someone else (seemingly anybody else will do).

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I was at a concert two nights ago where they played Pierre Boulez's classic work, "Le marteau sans maître", so to commemorate that wonderful experience here is the work in the version originally recorded by Robert Craft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Xr...

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Le Marteau sans maître (1967 Re-edited Version) : I. Avant "L'artisanat furieux" (2023...

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

As I've often observed, the La Contemporaine stream from France Musique is consistently the most interesting source of modern music I know. www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu... Today when they started Modern Times on KUSC with Max Richter, I switched it over and listened to Unsuk Chin's Cello 1/x

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Radio La Contemporaine de France Musique | Musique expérimentale et contemporaine à écouter

Écoutez la radio en ligne La Contemporaine pour découvrir des œuvres expérimentales et classiques, dans une sélection inédite réalisée par France Musique.

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modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social @modernmusicmaniac.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Since it's the first week of winter, and this is the time to see Orion the Hunter in the night sky (at least in my hemisphere), how about Claude Vivier's Orion? #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #ClaudeVivier #OrchestralMusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYO...

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Claude Vivier - Orion (for orchestra) (1979)

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