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0:00 Intro and hello 2:32 Passing the Coordinator of the Composition Program at Yale University role to Christopher Theofanidis
5:02 Working with Robert van Sice on Grace, double marimba concerto
8:50 How to write for the marimba, considering its advantages and challenges
13:45 The concept of composers exploiting shortcomings of the instrument
17:16 How to approach composing openings of pieces
22:07 Martin’s music inspired by/married to other works of art
30:05 Should art be separated from (the morality and political ideologies of) the artist?
39:00 Martin’s chamber opera My Friend’s Story and Chekhov’s “Strakh”
40:58 Specificity of writing for percussion - Sō Percussion and Caprichos Enfaticos
42:34 Paul Lansky – a friend from High School of Music & Art in New York
43:56 Ben Charles: report on György Ligeti
52:44 Meeting Ligeti and early encounters
58:25 Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles – a little secret about Ligeti’s writing (Romanian folk song)
59:31 The becoming of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre
1:03:45 Ligeti’s Horn Trio
1:05:57 Ligeti – Magyarization of a German name
1:07:18 Nancarrow’s influence on Ligeti
1:08:26 Ligeti: “Martin, who do you think is the greatest living composer?”
1:13:40 A grand lesson from Ligeti
1:15:45 Ligeti’s 70th birthday and meeting Mandelbrot
1:22:30 Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes
1:25:00 Writing an autobiography?
1:26:10 Storytelling
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The @Percussion - Episode 147 - Norm Weinberg
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