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Updated 28 May 2025 INTERVIEWS-VIDEO
Creating george WASHINGTON SOUNDLAB New Music Podcasts, In-depth Interviews with international contemporary music artists Video starts out quiet, turn up volume to hear. Reynolds Receipt of the Revelle Medal Each year, UC San Diego presents the Revelle Medal to particularly meritorious individuals from the surrounding community that supports UC San Diego, and also from Faculty Members of distinction. The medal was named in honor of the visionary Scripps Oceanographer, Roger Revelle, a seminal figure in the initiation of the San Diego campus of the University of California. An admirably realized luncheon occurs each November at which those receiving the award are presented (in previously recorded and edited video interviews). Reynolds segment at 3:30. Personal Vision and the Education of Young Composers in America 1:11:57 14 April 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the National Gallery of Art. Intermedia Collaboration 1:07:56 7 April 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the staff of the National Gallery of Art Roger Reynolds: Excellence in Performing and Visual Arts Award 2 April 2015, UCSD TV Documentation, 1:32:13 Mark Dresser with Tyshawn Sorey: Two Approaches to Making New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz March 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the National Gallery of Art John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC 2012  Mark Dresser Working with Roger Reynolds Composition in the United States Today Salvatore Martirano Remembrance 10:33 This remarkable composer was a friend and colleague for decades. His son, John, interviewed me in Del Mar for a film he planned regarding Sal: For Dad. Martirano was a man of daunting appetites in all regards. If an accompanist was not sufficiently engaging, Sal would climb on stage, push the offender off his bench and take over the role himself with his always amazing inventiveness. This film includes comments by George Lewis and Milton Babbitt along with myself as well as a peek at the fabled "Sal-Mar Construction". Roger Talking about and to Jōji Yuasa 7:00 Filmed and Produced by Ryūhe Yuasa When Karen and I arrived in Tōkyō in 1966, Yuasa and his family welcomed us in a way that rarely occurred between foreigners and locals. He later became a valued colleague at UC San Diego. When he returned to Tōkyō, his renown grew. When he passed away in 2024, his painter and mixologist son Ryūhei and physician daughter Rena asked whether I would compose a video message as though I were talking directly to him. Ryūhei filmed and edited this memorialization which was featured at a ceremony in Tōkyō in 2025. Roger Reynolds discusses his first encounter with Nancarrow and his music 4:21 Having first heard faint and distorted recordings of Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano in Ann Arbor during a Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsal, I was captivated and sought to connect with him. I was not successful. Then, in the mid-1970s, a friend at the American Information Agency in Mexico City invited us to visit and to interview Conlon whom he had befriended. Nancarrow had had no experience whatsoever in explaining his music to others, so the process was grueling and fascinating at the same time. These videotaped remarks are taken from a fine DVD about this remarkable man. Conversation Between John Cage and Roger Reynolds in Toronto Part 1 46:33 Part 2 46:43 As an aspect of Robert Aitken’s epic New Music Concerts in Toronto which endured for many years, Bob would sometimes arrange for “side events” such as this extended conversation between John Cage and me. Bob introduced us and then we had a cordial, wide-ranging discussion: macrobiotic cooking, the sources of his creativity, overcoming illness, shared experiences, and so on. The conversation occurred while I was a guest composer during the International Year of Canadian Music, Toronto, March 1986. |
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