This is a partial list of performances presented under the umbrella of the New Music America festival held from 1979 to 1990, and a different city each year, compiled from Georges Dupuis' personal archives from travel to the 1984 to 1990 festivals, during the latter years, as a secretary to the New Music Alliance planning sessions.Compiled from San Francisco Examiner (New Music America Special) June 1981; and program notes from the Hartford New Music America Festival (1984), Los Angeles New Music America Festival (1985), Houston New Music America Festival (1986); Philadelphia New Music America Festival (1987); Miami New Music America Festival (1988); New York New Music America Festival (1989); Montreal New Music America Festival/Montreal Musiques Actuelles (1990).
1979 New Music/New York
David Van Tieghem, solo percussion-theater performance; The Kitchen, New York, NY
1981 San Francisco
New Music America Festival, San FranciscoSan Francisco Examiner, June 1981: Special Section on the 1981 New Music America Festival: "Should There be New Music?"; Rich Gold, "The Era of Reduced Expectations and Music"; Jim Pomeroy, "Ruminations on Mythology, Pluralism and a Non-linear Precursor"; Interviews with Pauline Oliveros, Carl Stone and Lou Harrison; David Doty, "The Mathematical Character of Musical Sounds"; Laurie Spiegel, "A Non-Performance Viewpoint".
May 19 to August 2 Brian Eno, "Music for Museums"; University Art Museum, Berkeley
June 1–13 Peter Richards, Wave Organ installation; Marina Breakwater at the St. Francis Yacht Club
June 1–30 Bill Fontana, Landscape Sculpture with Foghorns; East Wall of Pier 2 at Fort Mason
June 2–22 Chris Brown, Tom Nunn, Dick Dunlap, Bruce Fier, Instrument group exhibition; San Francisco Airport, North Terminal
June 4 Ben Azarm, "MEAL"; Embarcadero Center
June 4–6 Exhibit: Pacific Film Archive: Contemporary Film Scores and Graphic Sound Films; Intersection Theatre Paul Fuchs and Limp, "Minimalist Directions"; Intersection Theatre
June 6 Presentation: Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, "New Music from the Center for Computer Music", Stanford University The Scientists, performance; Embarcadero Center
June 7 Paul Fuchs and Limpe: German Composers Paul Demarinis with Anne Kingensmith Songs Maggi Payne Electronics Performance Stuart Dempster Performance with didjiridu and tape Leo Smith Ensemble Performance: New Jazz Terry Allen Solo piano and Country Songs All at Intersection Theatre Nicolas Collins: Installation: Water Works; Golden Gate Ferry Terminal Liz Phillips: Sunspots; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
June 8 Meetings of the New Music Alliance, Nigel Redden, Chair; Exploratorium Daniel Schmidt: Sound Column Performance; Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda Workshop: Computers in Composition and Performance, Exploratorium Arch Ensemble: Works by Robert Erickson, Robert Hughes, Blue "Gene" Tyranny, Julius Eastman and Charles Amirkhanian; Japan Center Theater The Residents: One Minute Movies with Graeme Whifler; Japan Center Theater Phill Niblock: Evening of film and music; Cinematheque
June 9 New Music Alliance meetings, Mary MacArthur, Chair; Exploratorium David Behrman, Bob Watts and Bob Diamond: Cloud Music; Fort Mason Conference Centre Workshop: Instrument Design; 80 Langton Street League of Automatic Music Composers: Computer Music Joe McPhee: Solo Saxophone Joseph Kubera: John Adams: Work for Solo Piano Peter Garland: Work for 2 violins and percussion Robert Ashley: Performance Japan Center Theater
June 9 - June 11 Sensurround performance: The first theater of sound for the performance of electronic music using 136 speakers, located all around the theater; Audium Theater of Sound Sculptured Space, 1616 Bush Street
June 10 New Music Alliance meetings, Robert Stearns, Chair: Election and discussion of goals and aims; Exploratorium Ingram Marshall: Poor People's Music; Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda Meet the Composer: California Organizational Meeting; Exploratorium Laurie Spiegel: Video and Acoustic Music Davey Williams with LaDonna Smith: Improvisation Jim Pomeroy: Performance Peter Gena: Work for 2 pianos and electric bass George E. Lewis Ensemble: Work for 4 trombones; Japan Center Theater
June 11 Panel: New Music America; Robin Kirk, Chair: Funder's Panel; Exploratorium Workshop: Improvisation Paul Dresher: Electronics Diamanda Galás: Extended Vocal Performance Ned Sublette: Cowboy Songs Nancy Karp and Dancers; Terry Riley: Vocal performance; Exploratorium
June 12 Ralph Jones: Rotunda Sounding; Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda Pauline Oliveros: Travelling Companions; Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park Workshop: Publishing and Distribution Exploratorium Herman LeRoux and the Veil of Isis: New Music from the San Francisco Conservatory; Hearst Court, De Young Museum Margaret Fisher Performance; Conlon Nancarrow: Player Piano; Ustad Ali Akbar Khan; Performance; Japan Center Theater Keith Terry: Jazz Tap Percussion Ensemble, Performance Gallery Douglas Hollis: Fire Watercycle (celebration/performance/installation); Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda Other Music: Gamelan late night performance; Complex, 535 Stevenson St.
June 13 Conlon Nancarrow: Workshop on player pianos; Exploratorium Pauline Oliveros:Travelling Companions; Marx Meadow, Golden Gate Park Bonnie Barnett: Tunnel Hum; Pedestrian tunnel, Great Highway at the Beach end of Judah St. Laurie Anderson: Performance for mixed media Japan Center Theater Buster Simpson: Installation; San Francisco Art Institute
June 14 Karlton Hester Ensemble & Dancers: Performance; Old First Church Center for the Arts
1984 Hartford
New Music America Festival, Hartford Connecticut
July 1 Amtrak New Music America Express: Train performanceSteve Metcalf, "New Music Express Rolls into Hartford"; Hartford Courant, July 2, 1984 Charlie Morrow's Conch Orchestra Brian Johnson: Sound Work for train Joseph Celli Performance for train; New York Grand Central Station to Hartford, Connecticut Station Mega March: Train station performance; Hartford TerminalRockwell, John, "New Music: Festival Marches on in Hartford", New York Times, July 3, 1984 Salon des refusés: Various Musicians Pauline Oliveros performance Body Musicians: Performance; Mad Murphy's The Sun Ra Akestra; Mad Murphy's
July 2 New Music Alliance meetings; University of Hartford Rick Rozie & Mixashawn Arto Lindsay and the Ambitious Lovers; Old State House David Weinstein: Installation Group Exposition: Scribing Sound Open Mike Performance; Hartford Arts Centre
July 3Uncredited, "Free Musical Spirits Swing With Skillets, Video", Hartford Courant, July 5, 1984 New Music Alliance Meetings; University of Hartford Peace Train's All Star Breakers & Poppers with Circulation Eugene Chadborne and Shockabilly; Old State House Ron Kuivila: Installation; Hartford Arts Centre James Fulkerson and Neely Bruce: Play Stephen Montague and others; Wadsworth Atheneum David Moss: Intimate Solos; Wadsworth Connecticut Room for the David Bermant Collection Jim Pomeroy: performance Chris Brown, William Winant and Jon English: trio performance Muhal Richard Adams: performance Relâche: Play Malcolm Goldstein and others; Wadsworth Auditorium
July 4 New Music Alliance Meetings; University of Hartford Sam Rivers Saxophone Ensemble: Performance; Old State House Skip Laplante: Workshop; Constitution Plaza Yura Adams: Performance David Mahler: Performance, Marina Lapalma: Performance IXNA: Performance, Frankie Mann: Performance; Center Church Gerald F. Errante, Robert Black, Robert Dick: Virtuoso Series; Wadsworth Auditorium Hartford Symphony Orchestra: Play James Sellars, Yvar Mikhashoff, Charles Ives Fourth of July Outdoor Concert at Old State HouseSchmalz, Jeffrey, "Sounds of Avant-Garde Fills Hartford Streets", New York Times, July 7, 1984 Jim Pomeroy: Texas Barbecue; The Russian Lady 1
July 5 New Music Alliance Meetings; University of Hartford Liquid Liquid Olu Dara and the Okra Orchestra; Old State House Ellen Fullman: Long Stringed Instrument; Travelers Court Hall Visual Sound Forum: Installations and TalksSmith, Sylvia, "Scribing Sound", Ear Magazine July/Aug 1984; Volume 9, No. 2 Leif Brush,Leif Brush, "Terrain Instruments"; Ear Magazine March 1984; Volume 8, No. 5Leif Brush, "Nature's Voltages As Orchestra", "Terrain Instrument: Windscube"; Ear Magazine May–June 1983, Vol 9. No. 1 Alvin Lucier, Liz Phillips, William Hellerman, Jim Pomeroy; Phill Niblock Ruth Miller, Steve Parrish Hartford Arts Centre Jon English; Yvar Mikhashoff; Virtuoso Series; Wadsworth Atheneum Frances-Marie Uitti, David Mott, Gary Karr: Interpretations of John Cage works; Wadsworth Atheneum Stuart Smit: Performance, Helen Thorington and Partners: Performance, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Christian Marclay, David Moss, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb Performance of John Zorn's Rugby;John Zorn, "Rugby 5"; Ear Magazine Feb-May 1983, Volume 8, Number 1-2 Wadsworth Auditorium James Tenney: Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow, Bridges for four micro-tuned pianos; Lincoln Center
July 6 New Music Alliance Meetings; University of Hartford David Betts Garland, Bob Gatzen and Spiral; Old State House Russell Frehling: Installation; Hartford Civic Center Workshop: Various Service Organizations; Hartford Arts Center John Driscoll: Installation; Hartford Arts Center Ursula Oppens: Plays Alvin Curran, Elliott Carter, David, Charles Wuorinen, Frederic Rzewski; Lincoln Theatre Jerry Hunt: Performance, Frances-Marie Uitti: Performance, Michael Pugliese: Performance, S.E.M. Ensemble: Performance, Joseph Jarman: Performance; Lincoln Theatre
July 7 David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir: Vocal Performance, William Albright and Celli; New Music for Pipe Organ, William Albright plays Morton Feldman Amina Claudine Myers and her Voice Orchestra: Performance, Glenn Branca Ensemble: Symphony no. 3; Cathedral of St. Joseph Beth Griffin: Morton Feldman's "Voices"; Cathedral of St. Joseph Earl Howard: Performance, Terry Riley and Krishna Bhatt: Duo Improvisation, Wadada Leo Smith: Performance, Terry Riley and the New Music All Stars: "In C"; Lincoln Theatre
1985 Los Angeles
October 31 Opening Celebration Gala; Los Angeles City Hall Los Angeles Philharmonic, Play Robert Erickson, Dane Rudhyar, John Adams, Ursula Oppens, piano; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
November 1 Bonnie Barnett: "Auto Hum" live radio broadcast; KPFK Studio Z Michael Galasso, Art Works; Moca's Temporary Contemporary, 152 North Central Avenue Repercussion Unit: Performance, Johanna Went: Performance, Richard Zvonar: Performance, Kraig Grady and Barefoot Performance and film; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Gordon Monahan: "Speakers Swinging" with John Oswald and Holly Small; Park Plaza Hotel
November 2 Harold Budd, Art works and recordings, The Residents, Art works; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Kronos Quartet: Morton Feldman "String Quartet No. 2"; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Stephen Scott Ensemble, Performance, James Newton, Performance, Lois V Vierk, Performance, Paul Demarinis, Performance, Earl Howard, Performance; Cal Arts Modular Theatre
November 3 La Monte Young, "The Well-Tuned Piano"; full five-hour broadcast including interview with the composer; KPFK Radio The California EAR Unit: Play Otto, Stephen Mosko, Jim Staley, Joan La Barbara; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sussan Deiheim and Richard Horowitz: Performance; Los Angeles Theatre Centre
November 4 New Music Alliance, Meetings; Park Plaza Hotel David Burge: Performance; Arnold Schonberg Institute Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group play Ingram Marshall, Ivan Tcherepnin, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, L. Subramaniam and Steiger, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group with Aki Takahashi and Stephen L. Mosko: Performance Japan America Theatre
November 5 New Music Alliance, Meetings; Park Plaza Hotel Tom Marioni, Gary Lloyd, Bill and Mary Buchen, Betty Freeman: Art works: "Player Pianos to Pinball": sound installations; Otis Parsons Gallery