Losing it Again	Daniel Landau spent the summer in Israel.
Two-Chord Warp	Joshua Cody wrote this piece while working for a carpet gallery in Paris.
59” of Piano	Jonathan Norton is from Menlo Park.
music instructions	Scott Betz received his MFA in painting from the University of Tennessee.
42 Second Piano	Isak Goldschneider was born in St. Johnsbury, VT.
HARU NO YOI-Miyabi no Uta	Atsushi Yoshinaka is chair of the Creative Music Education Lab, Tokyo.
Tight	Rick Carrick was born in Paris, France; now lives in California.
réveil	D. Andrew Stewart fixed us dinner at Tanglewood.
Watermelon Revisited	T.J. Anderson was inspired by a street vendor’s song.
Spangles	Christopher Culpo lives in Paris, in the red light district.
Moondrunk	Ketty Nez is moving to Paris to work at IRCAM.
DD (Double D)	Vanessa Lann graduated from Harvard University.
rejection letter	Pierre Boulez is very famous and important, and lives in Paris.
GIRO 1	Joanna Bailie is studying with Richard Barrett.
“Ha!”	Jerome Bourdellon says this piece can be done on a horse instead.
Message 1	Stephie Buttrich hails from Berlin.
Saltarello for Guy	Giovanni Mancuso studied with Wally Rizzardo in Venice.
V8 For drivers who dare...	Arnoud Noordegraaf studies electronics in Den Haag and Amsterdam
Message 2	Stephie Buttrich lives now in Den Haag, Holland.
Piano Piece for Guy	Stéphane Leach recently completed a Tristan Corbiere song cycle.
EIGHT 8	Pepe-Tonino Caravaggio is actually a controversial pseudonym.
Theft	Lansing McLoskey came to composition via a rather unorthodox route.
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Speed Study 1	Dan Warburton writes and plays the violin, both acerbically.
im afraid you might ask for a fragment of my soul	Gene Pritsker shifted from violin to electric guitar.
Cowboy Song	Charles Shadle is a member of the Choctaw Indian Nation.
The Life in a Day	Jack Vees teaches at the computer music center at Yale.
MEDITATION	Derek Bermel loves Amsterdam (and New York, and Paris).
Message 3	Stephie Buttrich is a terrific cook.
Snaps	Elliott Sharp leads the groups Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane.
piece	Ketzel is a six-toed cat living with Morris Cotel in New York.
Punch and Judy’s Waltz	Barbara Engel runs a radio show in Boston.
not [an] anfang	Louis Andriessen was inspired by Stravinsky.
Message 4	Stephie Buttrich loves leaving messages.
prelude 1	Yoichi Togawa lives in Osaka; we met in Italy.
60-second Ballet (for chickens)	William Bolcom teaches composition at Ann Arbor.
The piece that Webern wrote	Anders Jallen now works for IBM.
Message 5	Stephie Buttrich created these messages with Marc Schots.
La Main - Die Meine	Stephie Buttrich got inspired by reading Julio Cortazar’s hand
The Kodaly Method	Paul von Hippel is at Stanford’s Computer Music Center.
Maybe Tomorrow	Newt Hinton: Born in Inkster Michigan; wrote Haiku; raised pigs.
Haemmerklavier XI	Moritz Eggert prefers Scotch to Tennessee whiskey.
This performance was inspired by the “arrêts fréquents” show in Paris, and is dedicated to the Ensemble Aleph: Dominique Clément, Sylvie Drouin, Monica Jordan, Françoise Matringe, Christophe Roy, and Jean-Charles François. Special thanks for organization of the Sixty-Seconds project go naturally to all the composers who generously donated their time to this project, to the Jack Daniels Distillery in Tennessee, to the Gaudeamus Foundation, to Neale McGoldrick, to Maria Sperling, and to the Newt Hinton Ensemble. This program is the official premiere of the “Top Forty” of the 60-seconds repertoire. The other 20 works were premiered this Saturday at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Steinway Piano