Reporter Volume 25, No.8 October 21, 1993

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
Jazz composer and drummer Bobby Previte and his acclaimed "Music From
the Moscow Circus" will open the gala 10th anniversary presentation of
the North American New Music Festival on Oct. 27. Previte's
performance will be one of 18 festival events that will include
concerts, cabaret performances and discussion/presentations by some of
the world's finest musicians and composers of new music.
The festival, which was one of the first of its kind in the United
States, is sponsored by the UB Department of Music in cooperation with
the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.
The festival, which will run from Oct. 27-Nov. 3 on the UB campus and
at venues throughout Buffalo, will also serve to honor the memory of
Yvar Mikhashoff, pianist, UB professor of music and co-founder of the
festival, who died Oct. 12. Admission prices range from free to $10
per event, with most in the $4-$6 range. 
The opening concert is Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. in Slee Concert Hall. Previte
and an ensemble of performers will present a series of Previte's
lively, complex works commissioned by the Moscow Circus and performed
here on tuba, violin, trumpet, harp, percussion, voice, guitar,
keyboards, drums and bass. 
Also among this year's highlights will be a retrospective concert
featuring many and varied compositions by the prolific American
composer Ned Rorem; traditional Indonesian gamelan music, plus
contemporary compositions written for that instrument; a memorial
concert of works by John Cage, who was involved with the North
American New Music Festival for many years, and a special concert that
will premiere 10 new works by composers from several nations.
The festival will close in Slee Hall on Nov. 3 with a Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra performance of works by John Zorn, Henryk
Gorecki and Amy Williams. 
All events will be taped and rebroadcast on European radio.
Since 1983, the North American New Music Festival has explored the
relationship between musician, composer and score through public
discussion, master classes, intimate evenings of cabaret, orchestral
concerts, ensemble performances and solo recitals of new and old
works. Many of the composers whose work will be performed are present
to participate in these events.
	Throughout its first decade, the North American New Music
Festival has given many of the finest composers and performers in the
world an opportunity to be heard. They, in turn, have presented their
critically acclaimed repertoires to receptive and astounded audiences.
This year will be no exception.
The North American New Music Festival was founded in 1983 by Yvar
Mikhashoff and Jan Williams. Mikhashoff was the festival's artistic
director at the time of his death. Don Metz serves as associate
director. 
The programs are made possible by the UB Dean of Arts and Letters, the
Department of Music, the Birge-Cary Fund, Conferences in the
Disciplines and the Graduate Student Association. Additional support
is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State
Council on the Arts, the Copland Fund, the Canadian Consulate, the UB
program in Canadian studies, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Meet the
Composer, the Grosvenor Society of the Buffalo and Erie County Public
Library, USAir, WBFO radio and private donations.