Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library

This music score was submitted for Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores by the UCLA Music Library.

The seven Minims for Max (2023) were composed at the request of Max Lifchitz, following his NYC premiere in 2022 of my Six Little Piano Pieces. “Silhouette” is based on the first of Max’s Piano Silhouettes. “What’s in a Name?” translates each letter of Max’s full name into music, using a variety of methods composers have previously employed. “Approach and Retreat” recalls the chordal parallelism in Max’s Me Acerco y me retiro for mezzo-soprano, contralto, and piano while also exploring that work’s subtle connection to another by Arnold Schoenberg. “Sessions with Roger” is based on a brief flute and clarinet duo Max composed in 1968 for a Juilliard course taught by Roger Sessions. “A is for Anton” employs the same 12-tone row (also beginning with A) on which Schoenberg’s pupil, Anton Webern, based his 1925 Klavierstück. “North/South Consonance,” largely a musical encoding of its title, honors Max’s more than four decades performing, recording, and promoting new music of the Americas and beyond. “Maxed Out” is derived from the second movement of Max Reger’s Clarinet Quintet and the opening of Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra. The Minims for Max appear on Mr. Lifchitz’s 2025 North/South Consonance CD, “Piano Crossroads.” --RF

Robert Fleisher's music has been heard throughout the United States and in more than a dozen other countries, and has been released on nearly as many record labels. His acous­tic works have been called “eloquent” (Ann Arbor News), “lovely and emotional” (Musicworks), “astoundingly attractive” (Perspectives of New Music), and “ingenious” (The Strad); his electro­acoustic music has been described as “fascinating” (Fanfare), “endearingly low-tech” and pos­sessing “a rich, tactile texture” (The New York Times). Fleisher’s music has been heard at Roulette, National Sawdust, Symphony Space/Thalia, and Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall (NYC), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Minneapolis Institute of Art, California Institute of the Arts, and at Electronic Music Midwest, ICMC, NYCEMF, and SEAMUS festivals. International venues include the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (Canada), Festival Musiques démesurées and Électrolune festival (France), Neue Musik Zirkus (Germany), Ars Acusmatica and Forum Wallis Ars Electronica (Switzerland), and the Audiograft, BEAST FEaST, and Noise Floor festivals (U.K.). Awarded multiple artist residencies in the U.S. and abroad, he has also received support from the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. Fleisher earned a B.Mus. degree with hon­ors at the University of Colorado, his M.M. and D.M.A. Composition degrees at the University of Illinois studying with Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and Paul Zonn. He is Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. www.societyofcomposers.org/members/robertfleisher/