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Michael Arnowitt

Michael Arnowitt

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Michael Arnowitt, Pianist

telephone: 802-229-0984
e-mail address: [email protected]

MESSAGE TO COMPOSERS

Greetings, composers. I'd be interested in receiving from you any piano solo music you have composed. Although I am not exclusively a contemporary music specialist, I program a fair amount of new music, and I would be happy to consider any music you send me (address below) for programming on my future concerts.

Information on my recordings is available through Ursa Minor Records, and I am working on a home page that should be up and running in January 1997. I can also send you testimonials and other information about myself upon request.

I am contemplating offering a professional service to composers to provide them with a decent quality recording of a new piece of music for their use in applications and perhaps to show to other musicians (but not for commercial release). Let me know if this would be of interest to you.

Here's a sampling of 20th century music I have programmed over the years:

Contemporary Music Repertoire
Anderson, Allen	Drawn From Life
Babbitt, Milton	Reflections for piano and tape
Báthory-Kitsz, Dennis	Rough Edges Csárdás
Boykan, Martin	Fantasy-Sonata
Cage, John	49 Waltzes; 4'33" Water Music
Castro, Juan Jose	Corales Criollos #1
Chavez, Carlos	Caprichos #1, 4, 5
Cohen, Gerald	Ballade
Crumb, George	Makrokosmos I, #1-4, 11
Ginastera, Alberto	Piano Sonata no. 1
Grant, James	Toccata from Three Virtuosic Studies Piano Concerto
Ives, Charles	"Concord" Sonata no. 2 with readings from Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Thoreau alternating with the four musical movements
Messiaen, Olivier	Vingt régards sur l'enfant-Jésus (#3, 5, 6) Trois petites liturgies (piano soloist)
Nancarrow, Conlon	Tango?
Nielsen, Erik	In Memoriam Mnemosyne
Pfaff, William	November's Augury
Polansky, Larry	Suite from "Lonesome Road"
Read,Thomas L.	Piano Music, Vol. II (selections)
Rzewski, Frederic	North American Ballads (#3, 4)
Shawn, Allen	Four Jazz Preludes Tango Eclogue
Thorne, Nicholas C.K.	Three Love Songs, op. 16 Rain Sketches, op. 3
Webern, Anton	Variations for Piano, op. 27
Standard 20th-Century Repertoire
Bartok, Bela	Allegro barbaro 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs Concerto no. 1 Three Rondos on Folk Tunes
Berg, Alban	Sonata, op. 1
Copland, Aaron	Piano Variations Four Piano Blues El Salon Mexico
Hindemith, Paul	Sonata no. 2
Milhaud, Darius	La Création du Monde transcribed for piano by Michael Arnowitt Saudades do Brazil (selections)
Prokofiev, Sergei	Sonatas no. 7, 8 Concerto no. 3
Ravel, Maurice	La Valse Valses nobles et sentimentales Gaspard de la nuit
Satie, Erik	Embryons dessechés various other works
Schoenberg, Arnold	Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, op. 19 Kammersymphonie no. 1, op. 9 (Webern arrangement)
Scriabin, Alexander	Five Preludes op. 74 Sonata no. 7 "White Mass"
Shostakovitch, Dmitri	Prelude and Fugues from op. 87 (selections)
Stravinsky, Igor	Three Movements from "Petrouchka" Piano Rag-Music Finale from Symphony in Three Movements transcribed by Michael Arnowitt

Michael Arnowitt is recorded on Ursa Minor and Musical Heritage Society.

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Comprehensive information on Michael Arnowitt's music career plus a collection of his essays on music topics is available at the Michael Arnowitt Home Page

To reach Michael Arnowitt:
On-line: [email protected]
By telephone: +1-802-229-0984
By fax:
By physical mail: Crescendo Productions, P.O. Box 94, Montpelier VT 05601 USA