Retrospective: Musical Elements New Music Ensemble

Preview from the Musical Elements Ensemble archive/Daniel Asia Papers, located at the Gilmore Music Library Special Collections of Yale University.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Musical Elements Ensemble roster 1977-79









Musical Elements roster (ca. 1978): 
Mary Feinsinger, mezzo-soprano
Keith Underwood, flute
Vicki Bodner, oboe
James McElwaine, clarinet
Geri Koch, clarinet
Robert Routch, horn
Greg Williams, horn
John Aley, trumpet
Barbara Aley, bassoon
Clifford Haynes, trombone
Clinton Everett, percussion
William Moersch, percussion
Jonathan Hass, percussion
Marin Alsop, violin
Alicia Edelberg, violin
Jennie Hansen, viola
Bonnie Hartman, cello
Joseph Bongiorno, bass
George Rothman, piano
Grace Wong, harp

Founders of Musical Elements:
Daniel Asia, Clinton Everett, and James McElwaine
in co-sponsorship with New Arts Management’s Music on Mondays Series

New Music from the Northeast



 May 29, 1978
New Music from the Northeast

Three Designs (NY premiere)     Bruce MacCombie
Changing the System                      Christian Wolff
Madrigals Book III                            George Crumb
Sign Sounds  (NY premiere)         Earle Brown
Sand (World premiere)                  Daniel Asia
King Lear Songs (NY premiere)   James McElwaine


New Music from Eastern Europe




New Music from Eastern Europe

Evocations de Slovaquie                              Karel Husa
Pezzo per flauto e pianoforte (NY premiere)         Wlodzimierz Kotonski
Sirato (US premiere)                                    Rudolf Maros
Pantuny Malajskie (NY premiere)                 Zygmunt Krauze
Kammerkonzert                                           Gyorgy Ligeti


New Music from Israel



New Music from Israel

Three Songs                                Paul Ben-Haim 
String Quartet                              Jan Radzynski
Patterns                                        Haim Alexander
Collage                                        Tzvi Avni
Monodrama                                Mordecai Seter
Eclosion                                        Leon Schidlowsky
Liaisons                                         Roman Haubenstock-Ramati


New Music from the West Coast



Feb. 20, 1978
New Music from the West Coast

Ten                                             Morton Subotnick
Three Danced Movements          Loren Rush
Illegible Canons                           William Bergsma
Jack’s New Bag                          Barney Childs
“The Beauty of the Rose Is In Its Passing”        Paul Chihara              
Nexus                                       William Russell