"This 2-disc set offers re-mastered recordings from the landmark New Music, New York: A Festival of Composers and their Music, held at the Kitchen's 484 Broome Street space in SoHo from June 8-16, 1979. The festival, which set a standard for new and contemporary music, paved the way for New Music America, the annual event that emerged the following year in Minneapolis and ran in various cities until 1990. Now 25 years later, these recordings are an invaluable time-capsule, a privileged view/listen into a historic event, initially heard by only a few hundred people. Beyond their historic value they offer brilliant and exciting music by composers now considered masters of the genre, as well as remarkable performances by figures nearly forgotten. We feel extremely fortunate to be able to release New Music, New York 1979 as our first CD in a series that promises to make available more lost treasures from The Kitchen Archives, uncovering the origins of new music today."
Stephen Vitiello, Archivist
The Kitchen, 2004
CD 1: 1. Dance No.4 (Philip Glass)
2. Do You Be (monk)
3. Criss Cross (section 3) (Gibson)
4. Where We Are (List)
5. Schoolwork (Mumma)
6. The Kim and I (Lewis)
7. Five orchestral pieces for opus tree (Nyman)
8. The Tuning Meditation (Oliveros)
CD 2: 1-3. Secret Songs (Johnson)
4. Dream Song/Vision Chant (Morrow)
5. Exchanges (Benary)
6. Four Arthurs superimposed with 2 octaves and a fifth (Niblock)
7. Touch Tones (Behrman)
8. Solo (Chadabe)
9. Untitled Piece (Conrad)
10. Untitled for solo voice (Palestine)
11. Drumming, Part One (Reich)