Earle Brown - Other Activities

Other Activities

  • Fromm Music Foundation: President from 1984 to 1989. Recommended several American composers of note for commissions including Henry Brant, Ornette Coleman, David Lang, Tod Machover, Steve Mackey, Steve Reich, William Susman, James Tenney and Joan Tower.
  • American Music Center: President from 1986–1989.
  • Time-Mainstream: Repertory director for new-music recordings between 1960 and 1973. Oversaw the label's recordings of works by 49 composers from 16 countries, among them Ives, Cage, Nono, Maderna, Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis and the first commercial recordings of Scelsi, Wolff and Bussotti. Wergo has re-issued all 18 of the recordings on six box sets.
  • Composer-in-residence / or visiting professor at: California Institute of the Arts, UC Berkeley, Peabody Conservatory, Rotterdam Kunststichting, the Basel Conservatory of Music, Yale University, Indiana University, the American Academy in Rome, Aspen, and Tanglewood.

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