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2008-2009 Columbia University, Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Adjunct Assistant Professor
(“Architectonics of Music” seminar, also working with same students in tandem in Architecture Advanced Studio course of Steven Holl; 2008 final jury included: Thom Mayne,
Toshiko Mori, Mark Wigley, Jene Highstein, Lebbeus Woods, Mario Gooden, Michelle Fornabai. 2009
final jury included Michael Bell, Anton Garcia-Abril, Peter Lynch, Scott Marble, Victoria Newhouse,
Galia Solmanov, Dimitra Tsacherlia, Christian Wassermann)
2008 Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, symposium Ancient Soundscapes: New
Echoes, Composer Panelist
2007 NYU, Maison Française (multi-media lecture demonstration, “Composing for Babar”)
2005 University of Chicago (Composers’ Seminar - career retrospective)
Northwestern University (guest composer-lecturer)
2002 New York City Opera Education production for schools of “The Travels of Babar” for 8,000 students
from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania; also for Metropolitan Opera Guild education
2001 New York City Opera Education (“The Travels of Babar” lecture demonstration for teachers)
Publication of Mostel.com “Teaching Guide for The Travels of Babar” prepared by Metropolitan Opera
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2008 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bela [Bartok] for piano solo (and optional reading of Wallace
Stevens’ Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)
2005 **Night and Dawn (10') for brass 4-4-4-1. First performance by combined brass sections of
Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, May 3. Commissioned
by American Friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with funding from
The Netherland-America
Foundation, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Holland's liberation from the Nazis.
Subsequent performances on tour in 2005 and NYC premiere Feb. 16 & 17, 2006, by RCO brass.
Selected by The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross in "best of 2005" list.
1999 Creation and first performance of the full production (with narrator, conductor, musicians, theatri-
cal lighting and digital slide show of original 1932 Jean de Brunhoff illustrations) of **The Travels of Babar, Tilles Center at L.I.U. C.W. Post. Hailed by
The New York Times as “the 21st century’s ‘Peter and the Wolf.’”
1996 *Star-Spangled Banner No. 3 (Furling Banner) for Margaret Leng Tan (toy piano, cap gun, toy siren)
Point Music CD (456345-2), also complete performance in Evans Chan’s film “Sorceress of the New Piano”
1994 *The Travels of Babar (65') for clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone, viola, ‘cello, piano, percussion,
with narrator and optional slideshow, using classic story by Jean de Brunhoff (originally commissioned
for Japanese CD release in Japan by Toshiba/EMI (CD TOCE 8498). Live performance rights authorized in:
World Premiere, Nov. 1998, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by composer. English version
recording, Mostel.com CD (99001-2).
True No (inspired by the John Ashbery poem) (10') for Tibetan singing bowls, voices, Aztec clay double
flute, frame drums, ram's horns. Commissioned by WNYC Foundation for
WNYC-FM’s 50th anniversary
gala at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC, June 13, along with similarly commissioned works by
Milton Babbitt, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Morton Gould et al. Premiere broadcast live.
*available on CD
**available on archival recording
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The Travels of Babar - Mostel.com CD, with English narration; Toshiba/EMI CD TOCE 8498 in Japan
with Japanese narration
Music for the October Moon (Music for the October Moon and Prologues/Secrets/Hymn of the Sun)
digital fossils CD 10010 (with funding provided by Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)
Ceremonial for the Equinox (recorded live during the premiere, Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
NYC) digital fossils CD 10011 (with funding provided by Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)
Blood on the Moon (Swiftly, How Swiftly.... and The River) digital fossils CD 10009
Composed for, and performed at, 1987 Commemorations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
From live broadcast via WNYC-FM (with funding provided by Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)
Nightsongs (Jacob's Ladder and Nightsong), digital fossils CD 10008 (Previously released on
Infinity
Series CD 88801) (with funding provided by Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust)
Beatles Sweet (4-movement piano sonatina/arrangement of Beatles songs) in collection,
Hyper-
Beatles, vol 1, Aki Takahashi, piano solo, including works derived from Beatles songs by Frederic
Rzewski, Alvin Curran, Peter Garland, John Cage, others) Angel/EMI CDC754155-2 (also released in
Japan and in Europe on related EMI labels), selected as “best of the year” by John Rockwell
Star-Spangled Etude No. 3 (Furling Banner) in collection The Art of the Toy Piano, Margaret Leng
Tan, Point Music CD (456345-2); performed on camera in DVD film, “Sorceress of the New Piano” Mode
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2007, ongoing
Consultant, Steven Holl Architects, on projected Princeton University Arts Center
2006
New York Foundation for the Arts, Music Composition Fellowship
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra brass, NYC premiere of Night and Dawn, Feb. 16 & 17
New York City Council, testimony on reducing noise pollution in writing new NYC Noise Code
2005
Orchestra Hall, Chicago debut, with combined
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra brass, May 3, followed by week-long tour of U.S. midwest with RCO brass
University of Chicago, Composers' Seminar
Northwestern University, composer lecture
2004
American Friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra commission
2002
New York City Opera Education presentation of school performances of full production of
The Travels of Babar for 8,000 students from tri-state area
Florence Gould Foundation major grant for The Travels of Babar
2001
Metropolitan Opera Guild & New York City Opera Education jointly create 80-page study guide
(complying with NY, CT, NJ & PA school guidelines) for Mostel /de Brunhoff The Travels of Babar
New York City Opera Education day-long retreat/workshops for teachers on
The Travels of Babar
Florence Gould Foundation major grant for The Travels of Babar
1999-2000
Created and directed multi-media full production for
The Travels of Babar
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2009
Mendelssohn, two-part series, Forward
"Medici.tv" on concerts streamed on internet, Klassisk Musikkmagasin (Norway), February
2008
"Book Challenges Old Myths and Uncovers New Surprises About Famed Quartet" on Olivier
Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, Forward May 9
2007
"Peter Gelb and the Metropolitan Opera" Klassisk Musikkmagasin (Norway), interview, November
"A New ‘Alice in Wonderland’ in Munich" review of world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s opera at
Bavarian State Opera, Orpheus Magazine (Germany), September, also (in English) on the web
at www.theoperacritic.com, www.operatoday.com
"Much to Atone For, Munich Makes Amends" on collaboration of Bavarian State Opera and new
Munich Jewish Center, Forward, November 5
“A Distant Sound Now Nearer,” on Franz Schreker’s opera Der Ferne Klang, Forward, April 20
“The Outsiders,” on Oscar Wilde and Alexander Zemlinsky, Forward, July 25
2006
"Celebrating Steve Reich," Forward, October 20
"Jews in the Court," on the recent discovery that the majority of musicians in the royal Tudor court
were likely to have been “hidden” Jews, Forward, October 6
2005
"A Critic Hears False Notes in Music History," review of Richard Taruskin's 6-volume history,
Forward, May 13
"Nebuchadnezzar Returns to the Met," Verdi Nabucco, Forward, Feb 11
2004
“Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra Launch Centenary With Three Concerts in New
York” review, www.CultureKiosque.com, February 2
"Carmen Comes Home," on Bizet's opera and Seville, Forward, May 7
"Simple and Delightful: They Don’t All Do That," on Mozart / Da Ponte Cosi Fan Tutte, Forward, August 6
"Rethinking Wagner in The Operatic Heart of 'Germania,'" interview / profile of Peter Jonas
and Bavarian State Opera, Forward, August 13
“Pushing Foundations To Give Everything They Have,” profile of Lewis B. Cullman, Forward, Nov. 12
2003
"After 70 Years, 'The Jewess' Captivates Once Again," review of Met production of Halevy's opera,
Forward, November 21
"Israel’s Habimah Theater Finally Arrives Stateside," Kaddish & Summer of Aviyah, Forward, Sept 11
"Cultural Stew Simmers with International Flavor," Lincoln Center Festival, Forward, July 4
"Plunging From Ecstasy to Ecstasy," on Stefan Wolpe centenary, Forward, April 11
2002
"Meet Europe's Hottest Composer, c. 1600: A Devout Ghetto Dweller Named Rossi," on Salamone
Rossi, Forward, November 29
"When The Ram's Horn Sounds," on the history, lore, and repertoire inspired by the shofar,
Forward, September 9
"Freedom Is One Thing, But Liberty Is Going Too Far," on John Cage, The New York Times, April 7
"Music For The Ultimate Mixed Marriage," on Handel's "Esther" and the creation of the English
oratorio tradition, Forward, February 22
2001
"Brooklyn vs. Manhattan: A Tale Of Two Festivals," contrasting presentations by Brooklyn Academy
of Music and Lincoln Center, Forward, September 7
"The Avant-Garde on Autopilot," on Philip Glass retrospective at Lincoln Center Festival, Forward,
August 24
"Raise The Curtain, Cue The Orchestra, Change The World," contrasting Verdi's "Nabucco"
and U.S. premiere of Henze's Symphony No. 9, Forward, March 9
"The Tale Of A Chance Meeting That Set The Music World on Its Ear," on Morton Feldman
and John Cage, Forward, February 2
2000
"The Marx Brothers Had It Right: 'Il Trovatore' Can Be Laughable," review of Met production,
Forward, December 29, 2001
“Jubilant Yiddish Theater Pulls Out All The Stops,” “Green Fields” & “An American Family,” Forward
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