Bibliographic record
Abstract
This music score was submitted for Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores by the UCLA Music Library.The seven Minims for Max (2023) were composed at the request of Max Lifchitz, following his NYC premiere in 2022 of my Six Little Piano Pieces. “Silhouette” is based on the first of Max’s Piano Silhouettes. “What’s in a Name?” translates each letter of Max’s full name into music, using a variety of methods composers have previously employed. “Approach and Retreat” recalls the chordal parallelism in Max’s Me Acerco y me retiro for mezzo-soprano, contralto, and piano while also exploring that work’s subtle connection to another by Arnold Schoenberg. “Sessions with Roger” is based on a brief flute and clarinet duo Max composed in 1968 for a Juilliard course taught by Roger Sessions. “A is for Anton” employs the same 12-tone row (also beginning with A) on which Schoenberg’s pupil, Anton Webern, based his 1925 Klavierstück. “North/South Consonance,” largely a musical encoding of its title, honors Max’s more than four decades performing, recording, and promoting new music of the Americas and beyond. “Maxed Out” is derived from the second movement of Max Reger’s Clarinet Quintet and the opening of Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra. The Minims for Max appear on Mr. Lifchitz’s 2025 North/South Consonance CD, “Piano Crossroads.” --RFRobert Fleisher's music has been heard throughout the United States and in more than a dozen other countries, and has been released on as many record labels. His acoustic works have been called “eloquent” (Ann Arbor News), “lovely and emotional” (Musicworks), “astoundingly attractive” (Perspectives of New Music), and “ingenious” (The Strad); his electroacoustic music has been described as “fascinating” (Fanfare), “endearingly low-tech” and possessing “a rich, tactile texture” (The New York Times). Fleisher’s music has been heard at Roulette, National Sawdust, Symphony Space/Thalia, and Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall (NYC), High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), Minneapolis Institute of Art, California Institute of the Arts, and at Electronic Music Midwest, ICMC, NYCEMF, and SEAMUS festivals. International venues include the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium (Canada), Festival Musiques démesurées and Électrolune festival (France), Neue Musik Zirkus (Germany), Ars Acusmatica and Forum Wallis Ars Electronica (Switzerland), and the Audiograft, BEAST FEaST, and Noise Floor festivals (U.K.). Awarded multiple artist residencies in the U.S. and abroad, he has also received support from the Illinois Arts Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation. Fleisher earned a B.Mus. degree with honors at the University of Colorado, his M.M. and D.M.A. Composition degrees at the University of Illinois studying with Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and Paul Zonn. He is Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. www.societyofcomposers.org/members/robertfleisher/
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.793 | 0.573 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".