Programs

Newspeak  creates a unique program for each show we perform, featuring works drawn our ever-growing repertoire.

Please check back soon for upcoming programs for 2010-2011

Repertoire

Premieres

All works commissioned by Newspeak unless otherwise indicated.

2004-2005

David T. Little – Electric Proletariat

2005-2006

Missy Mazzoli – In Spite of All This
Toby Driver – Subject Can’t Wake Up On Film
Oscar Bettison – B & E (with aggravated assault)

2006-2007

John Supko – Songs of a Landloper
Samson Young – Efflorescentric Aftermath
David T. Little – sweet light crude
Stefan Weisman – I Would Prefer Not To
Scott Smallwood – given to earth in dark blood
Caleb Burhans – By Way of Force
Judd Greenstein – What They Don’t Like (for Chuck D)

2007-2008

Ted Hearne – My Catalonia
Michael Early – Flood
Anne Hege – Incantation for the King of Soul
Sarah Kirkland Snider – This Is What You’re Like
Andrea Mazzariello – The New Austerity
Mark Dancigers – American Sky
Paul Lansky – Minor Alterations
David T. Little – Tricky Bits (second evolution)
Sean Griffin – Buffalo ‘70 *

2008-2009

Dmitri Tymoczko – Let the Bodies Hit The Floor
Caleb Burhans – Requiem for a General Motors in Janesville, WI
Pat Muchmore – Brennschluß
Robert Davidson – Generation After Generation
Kate Soper/Bakar Wilson – morning branch**
Jennifer Griffith/Douglas A. Martin – In E**
David First/Ansellm Berrigan – Let Us Sample Protection Together **
Sima Wolf/Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai – The Key**
Sima Wolf/Regie Cabico – What Remains**
Jed Distler/Cheryl Burke – The First Two**
William Brittelle – Pegasus in Alcatraz
Matthew Friedberger – Cold Storage Pleads Its Case

2009-2010

Ryan Brown – WAR HORSE
Matt Marks – A Portrait of Glenn Beck
Lisa Coons – Accessorizing the Soft Machine
Sean Friar – Fighting Words
Jascha Narveson – Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Seth Cluett – the withdrawal of the body
Lainie Fefferman – And Their Bloodguilt Shall Be Upon Them

Coming in 2010-2011

Darcy James Argue – The Sleep Room
Randall Woolf – Detroit 1967
David T. Little – Days of Rage

…and more!

Other music we play:

Stefan Weisman – From Frankenstein
Hanns Eisler – Songs
David T. Little – Soldier Songs
David T. Little – Songs of Love, Death, Friends, and Government
Keeril Makan – Target
Frederic Rzewski – Coming Together
Frederic Rzewski – To The Earth
Frederic Rzewski – The Price of Oil, Part II (US premiere)
Eve Beglarian – Until It Blazes
Wolf Edwards – My Lai 1968 (US premiere)
Roshanne Etezady – Unsafe (at any speed)
Black Sabbath – War Pigs
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

* commissioned by the MATA Festival, and premiered with members of Either/Or
** commissioned by the Composers Collaborative Non Sequitur project.