MILTON BABBITT: A Celebration of his Life and Music
October
31-November 1, 2003
Millsaps College
Jackson, Mississippi
James
Romig & John McMurtery
Western
Illinois University & The Juilliard School
Parametric Counterpoint: Babbittonian Ideals in Composition and Performance
James Romig and John McMurtery will demonstrate how Milton Babbitt's innovations have impacted contemporary compositional method and performance practice. Romig will focus on Babbitt's structural paradigms, specifically the partition-array construct, while McMurtery will discuss and demonstrate the necessity for coherent articulation of simultaneous parametric architectures. The presentation will include excerpts from Babbitt’s None But The Lonely Flute and a complete performance of Romig’s Sonnet 2.
