Abstract

THE VISIT TO Southern California in March of 1987 and attendance at the several-day festival of Robert Erickson's music at the University of California, San Diego by Friederich Hommel, director of the Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, resulted in an invitation to UCSD's Music Department, its then chairman, Cecil Lytle, and its resident new music ensemble, SONOR, to participate in the 1988 Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik. During the first week of the Ferienkurse, SONOR presented three concerts of newer music by UCSD faculty and graduate student composers, as well as compositions by its first emeritus faculty colleague, Robert Erickson. That first week was literally dominated by lecture and performance offerings of members of UCSD's Music Department and in recognition of this situation, Director Hommel designated English to be the official language of that first week. A

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