Christopher Fulkerson's
WRITINGS ON MUSIC
Including Articles About CF
Consisting of:
Essays
Lectures
Interviews
Research
Courses of Study
Translation
Articles About, and References to, CF
HOME
ESSAYS
A Short Course in How to Teach Yourself About Contemprary
Music
--First Published Here
One
Hour With Opera America
--For OPERA GUIDE December 1988
Eugene Onegin: A Pushkin Collage
--The San Francisco Opera, Fall 1986 Program Guide
The Canti Lunatici of Bernard Rands
--For the San Francisco Symphony Magazine, 1985
Andrew Imbrie: Piano Concerto Number Two
--San Francisco Symphony Magazine, November 1981
Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto
--The San Francisco Symphony Magazine, January 1984
Dragons, Sirens and Heroes: Uncoiling the Combat Myth in Wagner's Ring
--For the Program Guide of
the Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival 1983
The Music of Gyorgy Kurtag
--For "The First American All-Kurtag Program"
--Note: Excerpts of this essay appeared without acknowledgment in the New Yorker
Edward Hopper: Music of His Time
--Program Book to a Series of Three Concerts Given by the SFCMP, February 1982
Program Notes to the 1983-1984 Inaugural Season of the Chamber Symphony of SF
Program Notes to the 1984 Season of Chamber Music West
Program Notes to Three Seasons of SF Contemporary Music Players Concerts
Program Notes to All Ariel and Composers Chamber Players Concerts
An Introduction to the Pops,
and, Biographies of Pops Performers
--San Francisco Symphony Summer 1986 Program Guide
Liner Notes to Works of Peterson, Rochberg, Felciano, and Boone
--The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Grenadilla Records GS-1063
Respighi and Bennett Violin Sonatas
--Liner Notes to Orion Records ORS 82439 by the Malan-Sutherland Duo
Record Reviews for High/Performance Review
Expressionism In Music
--A 29-page Program Book for a concert series given by the SFCMP
--In conjunction with the Goethe Institut and the SFMOMA, January 1982
Understanding Contemporary Music
--The Berkeley Graduate, February 1982
Music as Place
--The Berkeley Graduate, January 1981
And Other Articles for the Berkeley Graduate
LECTURES
On the Flying Dutchman
--1 1/2 Hour Talk for the Wagner Society of Northern California
--The Dollar Board Room of the SF Ballet, June 7, 2003
Why Is Wagner's Music So Exhilaratingly Beautiful?
--Two-Hour Talk On Wagner's Musical Devices, for the Wagner Society of N. California
--The Dollar Board Room of the SF Ballet, April 28, 2001
New Approaches to Solfege
--On Fixed Chromatic Solfege, with Performances of Duets from VOCAL MUSICIANSHIP
--For the College Music Society Pacific Central Chapter Annual Conference
--Stanislas State University, March 6, 1996
On Art and Entertainment
--To the Women's Relief Society, Orinda, March 1989
An Introduction to Dissonant Counterpoint, Including Remarks On Adjunct Pitches
--To the UCLA Music Department, May 6, 1985
The State of the Arts
--To the Economic Round Table, January 8, 1985
Pre-Performance Preparation for Tension in Performance
--Paper Read to the International Society for the Study of Tension In Performance
--Westminster Choir College, Princeton, July 31, 1985
Structure and Idiom in Gesualdo's Sixth Book of Madrigals
--To the Conservatory of Music, The University of the Pacific, march 18, 1985
Regarding Pierre Boulez
--Paper Read to the UC Berkeley Music Department Camerata, February 1981
INTERVIEWS
Driving San Francisco Sane, Including Quotes from an Interview with Curt Sanburn
--SF Weekly, June 28-July 5 2005; Volume 24, Number 22, pages 15-21
CFAnd His Friends to Appear at Fulkerson Hall, Interview with Wendy Butler
--Artwaves Program, KHSU Radio, Arcata, May 29, 1998
CF, A Vocal Composer with Heart and Soul, Interview with Mitch Hampton
--Organica Magazine, Tampa, Summer 1989
An Interview with the Composer CF, Marylin Pittman
--The Wellness Program, KQED FM Radio, SF, October 3, 1988
Fulkerson Blitz, Four Hours of Music, Conversation, and Readings with Barbara
Golden
--Crack O'Dawn, KPFA FM Radio
Upcoming Events, Interview
with Gordon Engler
--KKHI FM Radio, SF, April 4, 1986
A Conversation with CF About His Recent Work, with Charles Amirkhanian
--KPFA FM Radio, Berkeley, May 3, 1985
RESEARCH
On Planning How Fast the Words Should Go By
Schoenberg's Beethoven Quotations: Structure and Detail
Humor in the Scherzo of Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 18 #4
Sonata Principle In the Music
of Wagner
On Bach's Treatment of the Minor Sixth
Notes On Dissonant Counterpoint
A Theory of Adjunct Pitches
Intervals Are Not Invertible
What a Vocal Ensemble Is and How to Rehearse One
On Karl Popper's Notion of What Musical Expressionism Is
John Coltrane, Giant Steps, and Jazz
COURSES OF STUDY
Listening to Music, or, Music As It Is, A Music Apprecitation Course
A Music Theory and Sight-Singing Curriculum for the San Francisco Girls Chorus
TRANSLATION
THE RING OF THE DARKLING, a prose-poetic
translation and augmentation of Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, incorporating
further story elements and mythological and linguistic research into Wagner's
libretti, preserving the Stabreim and meter while rendering the large and idiosyncratic
vocabulary into idiomatic English. The character and place names are also translated.
Work is complete up through SIEGFRIED Act One. The projected titles are:
--The Pure Gold
--The War Goddess
--Valiant
--The Enshadowing of the Immortals
ARTICLES ABOUT, AND REFERENCES
TO, CF
News and Notes, Announcement of 2/28/2004
Reading of A MIRACLE OF RARE DEVICE
--Newsletter of the Wagner Society of Northern California
--Volume VIII, No. 4, December 2003
Dispatches from the Border - Email Newsletter of Borderlands Bookstore, SF
--Re: 2/28/2004 Reading done there of A MIRACLE OF RARE DEVICE by CF
News and Notes: Christopher
Fulkerson, Vol. VI No. 3, September 2001
--Newsletter of the Wagner Society of Northern California
SFCMP 30 Years: Commemorative Book,
Issued March 26, 2001
--Reference to Premiere of SCRITTI DI LEONARDO
--Reference In: Former Assistants to the Music Director
Dictionary of Contemporary Biography, 29th Edition
--Melrose Press Ltd., Cambridge; Reg. 965274
Who's Who In the World, 17th Edition, 2000
--Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ
Pacific Review: Class Notes, Page 27, Fall 2000, Vol. 87, No. 3
--Update Re: Opera Conducting, Publishing
SF Weekly: Brief Quotation of CF in Silke Tudor's Night Crawler Column,
--Issue of Sept. 8-14, 1999, p.10
The New Yorker, Andrew Porter, July 1988
--CF Attends the PepsiCo Festival
The New Yorker, Andrew Porter, April 1987
--Susan Jolles Performs the CF Harp Sonata at Merkin Hall
Supplement to Music Since 1900, Nicolas Slonimsky
--Five Entries Re: SCRITTI DI LEONARDO and Premiere Performances Given by CF
of
--Works by Babbitt, Maxwell Davies, Kalmar and Shere
SF Bay Area Choral Directory
--Two Listings in each of the 1985, 1987 and 1989 Editions
Musical America: San Francisco: Chanticleer, Ariel
--Article by Paul Moor, November 1986
SF Weekly: Popularizing the New
--Article on CF by Gina Arnold for SF Weekly, January 1985
Editio Musica Budapest Newsletter
--January 1985 Re: Premiere of Sary Incanto
--November 1985 Re: "First American All-Kurtag Program"
SF Symphony Magazine, January 1985
--Michael Steinberg Quotes CF on Andrew Imbrie
The Sacramento Union, September 1984
--Nancy Steidtman on the Bay Area Music Scene
The New York Review of Books, December 1983
--Joseph Kerman Re: CF article on Dragon Lore In Wagner's Ring
Boosey and Hawkes Newsletter, Spring 1979
--CF Conducts Donatoni at the UC Berkeley Italian Festival
Plus: Various Newspaper and Magazine Reviews of Performances with Ariel; The
Composers Chamber Players; The Berkeley Opera Chorus; Old First Concerts; the
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; at the June In Buffalo Festival; at
Mills College, et cetera.