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Creditor reflects on the history of the George Perle's Wind Quintet No 4, which has won the Pulitzer Prize, with the performer's own program note and review of early performance. He chronicles the association of Dorian Wind Quintet with Perle which started in 1966 with a performance of his first wind quintet. He chronicles the inception of the Wind Quintet No 4 in 1982 when it was learned that the New York Council on the Arts made funds available toward the commissioning of new works by American composers. The author also mentions the factors that contribute to the popularity of the piece.

FIRST REHEARSALS AND INITIAL REACTIONS Ideally when starting to learn a new work all of the performers should read from complete scores; this way it is possible to keep track of each part simultaneously. .. The students were challenged to stretch and develop their musical skills as well as skills related to cooperation, compromise and team building. The program also included master classes and such things as entrepreneurship, music history and theory, body awareness, reed making and audition prep. Consisting of wind quintet and piano (and sometimes percussion), and founded by oboist Sarah Davol 20 years ago, the group's initial activity was a response to an environmental issue: raising awareness for a conservation project in Teaneck, NJ.

In the German-speaking countries during the morally uninhibited years of the Weimar Republic, the opposing cultural epochs of Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit dominated the aesthetic landscape. Opera was a central proponent of both movements, as implemented by the Expressionist practitioners and those who favored the subsequent topical and objectifying Zeitoper that sought to move away from representations of psychological distortion to depict social realism that emphasized mechanical technology and lighter, popular narrative themes. Max Brand’s famous Zeitoper , Maschinist Hopkins , will be analyzed to illustrate how it bore fundamental trace elements back to Alban Berg’s Expressionist opera Wozzeck , and likewise, how Hopkins in turn influenced Berg’s second opera Lulu , to constitute a linear association of narrative, music, and theatrical design that simultaneously conformed to and defied the operatic models that all three operas are historically associated with. It will also be suggested that both composers were consequentially influenced by Richard Wagner, promoting vestiges of an even older lineage, which contributed to this association between the three operas at a time when Wagner was less applicable to the trends of innovation and progress.

The author pays tribute to composer and theorist George Perle.

The author pays tribute to composer and music theorist George Perle.

Dutilleux pays tribute to composer and theorist George Perle.

Notation for a piano improvisation that eventually became Perle's Chanson Cachee no. VIII \"For Miriam Gideon\" is presented.

George Perle; Twelve-Tone Tonality (TTT); Twelve-Tone Music; Structural Symmetry; PWGL; Computer Aided Composition (CAC); Interval Cycles; Composition Techniques and Systems; Music Theory;

Botstein reflects on the recent deaths of American masters George Perle and Lukas Foss. Foss's posthumous standing may be helped by his status as an emigre to America and a refugee from Hitler's Germany. He reinvented himself as an American, but his link to Europe remained. Foss might still claim the attention of future generations of Europeans as the career of music during the 20th century, and its place in the political history of the century, are revisited and rewritten. Although George Perle was a native-born American, it may be his link to Europe that likewise will help secure his place in history and the concert repertoire. If Foss made a name for himself as a performer, Perle made a reputation as a scholar and teacher. Even if not a single note of Perle's music survives in the repertory, his role as a path-breaking writer on the subject of Alban Berg should secure posthumous attention and respect. It was he who wrote the first and best extensive analyses of Berg's music and compositional practices. His books on Berg will remain standard works on the subject.

Notation for a piano work written in honor of composer and music theorist George Perle is presented.