The top is a list of internet links to Don’s essays on late 20th century composers.
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Brief BIO
Review of Good Turns
Essays on Music
"Listening Forward and Looking Back"
Aaron Jay Kernis' Second Symphony
Allan Pettersson's Symphony No.10 and Symphony No.11
Anders Nordentoft's On This Planet
Avet Terterian's Symphony No.3 and Symphony No.4.Terror, Grit, Catharsis
Elliott Carter 90+
Ernst Krenek
Giya Kancheli: Beautiful Sorrows
Giacinto Scelsi
Gloria Coates: Postmodern Symphonies
Grace Williams' Ballads
Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities
Iannis Xenakis & Mikis Theodorakis:Two Greek Composers At Their Diamond Jubilees
Leo Ornstein
Louis Andriessen's Trilogie van De Laatste Dag (Trilogy of the Last Day)
Lucia Dlugoszewski: The Elegance of the Ungraspable
Luciano Berio's Sequenzas
Mauricio Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion
Olga Neuwirth
Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise
Peter Maxwell Davies
Roberto Gerhard & Andrsej Panufnik: Voices of Self-Exile
Simon Bainbridge & Peter Ruzicka
Sofia Gubaidulina
Stewart Wallace's opera "Harvey Milk"
Tan Dun's Ghost Opera
Ursula Mamlok
Composer websites that Reprint
Essays by Don Mager
www.terterian.org
Complete Opera Libretto
Akhmatova
Libretto by Don Mager to the opera by Marc Satterwhite
Drive Time (2009)
Chapbook
"That Which Is Owed To Death: Fragments 1-4" from That Which Is Owed To Death
Good Turns
(Main Street Rag Publishing)
"A Man in a Room Making Couplets: First Program" from Good Turns
"Emma Mae Telephones her Grands" from Good Turns
"Hands" from Good Turns
"Words that Stick: Spite"from Good Turns
"Words That Stick: Terror" from Good Turns
The Elegance of the Ungraspable:
Selected Poems from Four Decades
"Earth" from The Elegance for the Ungraspable
"Elsewhere"
"Trimming Christmas Trees Above Lake Canandaigua, New York" from the Elegance of the Ungraspable
Range Finders. Targets. Mind Sweeps.
A Brief History of Certain Months in 1995 and 1996
(unpublished book)
"Delbert"
"Doreen"
"Dorothea"
"Mind Sweeps #5 - #8"
"Mr. Dunkirk"
"The Department Chair"
Poems not included in Books
"The Krenek Sestinas"
"Turning Toward the Sun"
Glosses:
Twenty-four Preludes and Etudes
by Don Mager
(available at Barnes & Noble.com)
Words That Stick:
by Don Mager
(This small chapbook is out of print; however, the poems are included in Good Turns)