New York New Music Ensemble

literally. This ensemble has been around for twenty-three

years and it is considered to be “the raising standard” in

contemporary chamber music. On Thursday afternoon, I saw

the ensemble perform three pieces: Trio, Nutturno, and

Marxville Songbook. These three possess very similar tone

The ensemble’s first piece, Trio, was composed by Donald

Martino. This musician pursued his interest in music at a

very young age. By age fifteen, he did not only know how to

play various instruments, but he also started composing.

Martino excelled as a member of American Academy of Arts

and Letters and was rewarded scholarships. In 1974,

Martino’s classic sextet, Notturno, won him the Pulitzer

In Notturno there are three large parts, which could be

described as movements that maintain the music’s

continuity. Within these three movements, there are

nineteen smaller parts. The first and last movements have

nine parts that make up the contrasting sounds in the

music. The final movement concentrates more on the pitch

transformation. Structurally, this format would be a

recapitulation, but the use of pitch transforms it i

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