CONTENTS

IN THIS ISSUE ..., 3
BIOGRAPHY: Richard Rivera,4
BRAVI TO ..., 4

An Interview with George Walker,  Duffie, 5

LEGATO NOTES
No Restin’ at the Westin: The Busy CMA Conference, 2004  Kaufman, 6

LIVE EVENTS
In Brevity There Can Be Wisdom McBride, 9
Cosi Fan Tutte? Non Piu   McBride, 9
Ending with a Bang!  Liechty, 10
U.S.-Antillean Echoes Back and Forth
     de Clef Piñeiro, 10
Myriad Musical Minds  Cleary, 11
Music Without “Reason”   Cleary, 12
O que Orquesta tan rica!  de Clef Piñeiro, 12
The Long and the Short of It  Cleary, 13
“Intruder” in the Musical Landscape  Kroll, 13
Putting Harrison into Context  Pehrson, 14
Fiddler on the Roof of Technology  BLC, 14

Scelsi: “All of the Above”  Pehrson, 15
Marriage, Murder and Masochism   BLC, 16
…and So…they Played   Liechty, 17

DOTTED NOTES from…
Frank Retzel; Jon Liechty; John de Clef Piñeiro; Mark Greenfest; Peter Kroll; BLC, 17

SPEAKING OUT
LETTERS, 19
OP-ED  BLC, 19

RECORDINGS
An Ancient Instrument in Today’s World
      Kroll, 21
From Britain and Britten et al with Love
      Mitrano, 21
Setting the Themes  BLC, 21
Sax Act  Mitrano, 22

CDS IN BRIEF & RECENT RELEASES
Luis Antonio Escobar: Canticas y Madrigales       BLC, 22
Igor Stravinsky: FIREWORKS
      BLC, 23

THE PUZZLE CORNER:
Another outstanding winner, 24

COMPOSER INDEX, 26

BULLETIN BOARD, 27

WEB SUPPLEMENT

Gala Announcement

Who Will Be the Next New Music Champion? The Envelope, Please!
Gala 2004 will feature three new awards and celebrate with music, music, music!

Festival

Dresdener Tage des Zeitgenössisches Musik

NMC continues its talent search and has called upon an old acquaintance of the publisher to share his profession of illustration and mag layout to us. He is the illustrator of our cover art and much of it on the inside.

Richard Rivera began his career as a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, and freelanced creating editorial illustrations for magazines and mass market book publishers.

Soon after graduating from SVA he purchased a camera and taught himself photography and the craft of the darkroom.

He freelanced design work for advertising agencies and in 1980, with the option of greater involvement on the photographic side, took a full-time position as graphic designer with a firm specializing in audio-visual presentations, where he occasionally contributed his skills as studio and location photographer.

A few years later, awed by Apple computer's newly released "Macintosh," and recognizing the enormous impact it would have on business graphics, he
encouraged the advertising agency where he worked to purchase a Mac.

Rivera learned the Mac, and as studio manager designed a computer database to handle ship-dates and sales and supervised freelance staff until the agency closed in 1988.

He also exhibited his photography in a one-man show in the fall of 1988.

Rivera worked as a designer with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority for several years, and later in collaboration with Charles
Mazarakes, co-wrote and co-produced TalkFiction, a cable television show that aired in 1997.

At present Richard Rivera works as a graphic designer in New York's publishing industry.