"Neo-Melo" Guest Composer 180 Barry Drogin (and Baruch Skeer)
00:00:00 Parody on Richard Wagner's Overture to Die Meistersinger, excerpt
00:00:49 Virtuoso Alice for piano by David Del Tredici with monologue
00:14:10 Piece is named, next piece is named
00:15:43 Not the Right Balloon by David Gunn
00:21:50 Piece is named
00:22:21 Introduction of guest Barry Drogin
00:23:35 Names teachers Steve Wilson, Mark Kroll, Scott Wheeler, Elie Seigmeister, talks about hand-inking onion skin scores and Associated Music Copy Service
00:25:50 Mentions order of Finale Music Notation Software, Kalvos mentions Barry is electrical engineer, Barry talks about Laurie Spiegel, tells high school SATB computer program story, mentions Manifesto and its violation
00:28:49 Station ID by Barry Drogin and Baruch Skeer mixed with Poulenc's Gloria
00:30:50 Asked what piece to play first
00:32:00 Love Poems from the Sanskrit by Barry Drogin
00:40:25 Piece is named and described, asked where it was performed
00:41:05 Contrasts various personalities to music composition
00:43:19 Unaccompanied melody - in synagogue as Orthodox Jew, as madrigal singer, discusses three a cappella moments in Love and Idols/A Jewish Opera
00:46:00 Describes rejection of electronic music, abandonment of piano, transition to a cappella voice
00:47:40 Describes music of Love Poems from the Sanskrit
00:49:15 Unaccompanied melody and each note being its own universe
00:50:49 Mentions was Sondheim/Bernstein freak in college, and exhaustion of using vamps as variation or canon as structure
00:52:41 Talks about taking acting classes, about theory of melodic gesture, about realizing that Hebraic chant is a setting of text, about musicological history of variations in Hebraic chants throughout world, about theological oneness of Jewish "orthogonal Set"
00:56:53 Introduction of Amidah and Alamo!
00:58:25 Amidah from Love and Idols by Baruch Skeer
01:02:45 Alamo! (the short version) by Barry Drogin
01:09:07 Pieces are named, describes Alamo! text and audience reactions, names website, credits Dora Ohrenstein
01:12:00 Mentions NewOp meeting where Alamo! was first performed, discusses NewOp and development of its "theme song," credits Eric Salzman for pun
01:15:40 NewOp Doo Wop by Barry Drogin performed live in studio
01:18:08 Kalvos makes pun about not being "cued Op" for chorus, recent Texaco non-sponsorship of Met broadcasts, "glass of Texaco" joke
01:19:06 Discussion about OPERA America, Central Opera Service, Kalvos mocks Washington, DC, Barry apologizes to Diana Hossack, mentions C-Opera listserv
01:22:39 Introduces Typhoid Mary
01:23:28 Overture from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
01:24:37 Danse Macabre from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
01:29:39 Epilogue from Typhoid Mary by Barry Drogin
01:33:15 Pieces are named and discussed
01:35:30 Station ID by Barry Drogin and Baruch Skeer (without mix)
01:36:19 Talks about Epilogue and association with father's death
01:37:10 Kalvos asks about tonality of Beth Anderson, Michael Sahl, Eric Salzman, Barry talks about putting important musical material in text, mentions studying with Gil Robbins and writing for voice, talks about Occasional Singers, and unique tonality and logic of each choral piece
01:43:41 Kalvos asks about Stravinsky, Barry talks about Scott Wheeler and Stravinsky's Mass
01:45:51 Praises and criticizes amateur choruses
01:47:12 Brings up 9/11, thanks David Rodwin and RIMT, dedicates piece to Martha Schlamme
01:50:55 After from September 11 Songs sung live in studio
01:53:15 Talks about September 11 Songs and being 9/11 "poster boy of new music"
01:55:31 Describes other meanings of Not Nice Music, returns to 9/11 experience, mentions Kyle Gann guestbook, calls Eve Belgarian "poster girl," gives further description of September 11 Songs and recounts experience, recommends going to website
01:58:42 End of interview, mutual thank yous
01:58:50 Mention of future guests
01:59:22 Essay for Virtual Orchestra by Jerry Gerber
02:00:36 End of show