Martin Bresnick: My Twentieth Century

Robert van Sice, marimba I; Kunihiko Komori, marimba II; Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, Norichika Iimori, conductor; Taimur Sullivan, saxophones; Maya Beiser, cello; Steve Schick, percussion; Povera Players: Lisa Moore, solo piano; Meighan Stoops, bass clarinet; John Ferrari, drum set; Jason Treuting, vibraphone; Marija Ilic, keyboard; Mark Stewart, guitar; Jeanine Wynton, violin; Patti Monson, flute; Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet; Lisa Moore, piano; Timothy Fain, violin; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Ole Akahoshi, cello; Ransom Wilson, conductor Martin Bresnick (b 1946) has long been an influential teacher of music composition at Yale but over the past few years he has begun to receive recognition as an important composer in his own right. On the occasion of Bresnick's receiving the first Ives Living Award, John Harbison averred, "His music is formally clear, and it has a combination of a direct expressivity and a rigorous method, as well as a real sense of sonic immediacy." His versatility and ec