Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (born March 14, 1949, Plainfield, New Jersey) (pseudonyms: Dennis Bathory, Dennis Kitsz, Dennis J. Kitsz, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, Kalvos Gesamte, Grey Shadé, D.B. Cowell, Brady Kynans, Kalvos Zondrios, Báthory Dénes, Orra Maussade, Don Johnson, Kerry Merritt, Calvin Dion, Enimtu Bemanyna) is a Hungarian-American author and composer.^{[1][2] [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Aside from music, he was an author during the first generation of personal computers (1979–85),^[11][12] and interviewed Bill Gates.^[13] He was involved in the post-Fluxus art movement (1973–78), and is director of Vermont's Alliance of Independent Country Stores (2001–present).^[14][15]

Báthory lives in Northfield, Vermont. He is a descendent of the Báthory family, a prominent central European clan during the Middle Ages.

Music and works

He has composed more than 700 works, including sound sculpture, solo and chamber music for the instruments of classical music, electronic music, stage shows, orchestral pieces, dance music, opera, interactive multimedia, sound installations, and performance art events. He has also designed and built new musical instruments.^[16][17] He has advocated what he calls contemporary "nonpop" music,^[18] and the performance of contemporary classical music (new music) in preference to the music of composers of past eras. He offers his compositions to be downloaded and played for free, but does not release them into the public domain and takes royalties for public performance as usual. His organ work Yer Attention, Please has been performed by Kevin Bowyer.^[19] His Dashuki Music Theatre has performed at Charlotte Moorman's Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York.^[20]

Kalvos & Damian

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz is known for co-founding and co-hosting Kalvos & Damian New Music Bazaar^[21][22] with the composer David Gunn.^[23] Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar was an ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winning radio/web program that ran 537 shows from 1995-2005.

Ought-One festival

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz also founded and organized the Ought-One festival.^[24][25]

We Are All Mozart

The We Are All Mozart project (WAAM) demanded a finished commissioned composition each day in year 2007. Not a complete success the project received a 100 commissions which Dennis Báthory-Kitsz completed.^[26][27]

Erzsébet: The Opera

In 1987 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz was planning to write an opera about Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian medieval ruler. Dennis created the “Erzsébet: The Opera” website in 1996 which was featured at Microsoft’s old home page it received millions of hits in one week. People submitted articles, artwork and novels for the website. The first article on Erzsébet: The Opera was published in “Requiem” in France in 1998.^[28] In 2001 a team from The Travel Channel found the website and sent Dennis Bathory-Kitsz to Cactice in Slovakia for a show called “World’s Bloodiest Dungeons” A clip of the opera was on "Deadly Women" a show aired in 2004 on The Discovery Channel. The entire opera was produced by the composer in 2011.^{[29][30][31][32]} New opera based on Hungarian countess in the Stowe Reporter, October 20, 2011

Publications

Books

• Country Stores of Vermont Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, The History Press (July 30, 2008) ^[33]
• Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a chronology & annotated bibliography Dennis Báthory-Kitsz,Newberry Library, 1983^[34]
• Learning the 6809 Dennis Bathory Kitsz, Green Mountain Micro; 1st edition (1983)
• The Custom TRS-80, and Other Mysteries Upland, California: IJG, 1982. paper; 340 pp., illus.

Scores

• Triple quartet: for three groups of two violins, viola and cello Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Westleaf Edition
• Binky plays marbles: a Bruckner Boulevard dance : for contrabass and viola Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Frog Peak Music, 1992

Discography

• 60x60 (2004–2005) Vox Novus VN-001
• 60x60 (2003) Capstone Records CPS-8744

Interviews, Articles & reviews

• Blood Countess Opera Premieres, 24 Years By Alice Levitt- Making in Seven Days, October 26, 2011
• Ought One Have Attended? By David Cleary New Music Connoisseur
• We Will, We Will Nonpop You by Kyle Gann, Village Voice, September 11, 2001
• Retuning the Dial: Rethinking the Relationship between Radio and New American Music NewMusicBox Published: May 1, 2000
• Sound Bytes of Truth by Kyle Gann, Village Voice July 6, 1999
• Ought-One Festival Reviewed by Jennifer Hymer, Computer Music Journal

Compositions

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• Fanfare:Heat, for orchestra (premiered by the Vermont Youth Orchestra)
• Diamonds, a spatial work for 32 instrumentalists or 32-channel electronic sound
• Cold Stones, 14 intimate songs for voice and chamber orchestra
• Erzsébet, chamber opera on the story of Elizabeth Bathory in 3 acts, and film score; libretto by Andrei Codrescu
• Krikisque (2004), for electronic playback^[35]
• Warbler Garden (2003), for electronic playback^[36]
• Bales, Barrels, & Cones: Antebellum/Antibellum (2002), for drumkit and playback
• Tïrkíinistrá: 25 Landscape Preludes (2002)
• VoxN (2002), for chamber ensemble and reader
• Mirrored Birds (2001), a flute concerto
• Fuliginous Quadrant (2001), for chamber ensemble
• The Key of Locust (2001), for chamber trio
• HighBirds (Prime) (2001), for two electric guitars and playback
• RatGeyser (2000), for MalletKat and playback
• Mountain Dawn Fanfare (2000), for orchestra
• Quince & Fog Falls (2000), for chamber ensemble
• The Sub-Aether Bande (2000), for flute and percussion
• Sourian Slide (1999), for string orchestra
• LowBirds (1999), for small ensemble
• Zonule Glaes II (1999), electroacoustic work with string quartet
• Into the Morning Rain (1998), for small ensemble
• Detritus of Mating (1997), electroacoustic work
• zéyu, quânh & sweeh (1996), for playback
• exirxion (1996), for tape
• xirx (1996), a performance work for electronic tape, ice and aromas
• Hoots & Honks (1996), for string quartet
• Hang Time (1995), for timpani and orchestra
• Hypertunes, Baby (1994), for voice and tape
• Build, Make, Do (1994), for small ensemble
• Unisons (1994), for six performers
• 8 Pooners (1993), a performance work for solo clarinettist
• Llama Butter (1993), for tuba and tape
• Emerald Canticles, Below (1993), for small ensemble
• Binky Plays Marbles (1992), for double bass and viola
• The Pretty Songs (1991), for saxophone and voice
• Softening Cries (1991), for orchestra
• A Time Machine (1990), for voice, small ensemble, dance and computers
• Traveler's Rest and Wolf (1991), sound environments
• The Lily and the Thorn (1990), for orchestra
• Yçuré (1990), for two chamber orchestras
• Four Sharks (1989), for nine performers
• Northern Lights ...seeking Sasquatch (1989), for orchestra
• Csárdás (1989), for piano
• Pianaroll (1989), for piano and electronic tape
• Variations on Amanda (1989), for three strings and harpsichord
• Winter, Three Songs on the Nature of Armageddon (1987), for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
• Rough Edges (1987), for piano
• Beepers (1986), a high-tech cabaret
• In Bocca al Lupo (1986), environmental sound design
• Mantra Canon (1986), for large ensemble
• Echo, A Performance Ritual in Four Parts (1985)
• Ash Wednesday (1983), for small ensemble
• Rando's Poetic License (1978), for electronics, microcomputer, voices, instruments
• Mass (1978), for small ensemble
• Plasm over ocean (1977), a chamber opera for small ensemble
• Stoneworld/Grey (1977), a multimedia dance work
• Somnambula (1975), for recorder and electronic sound
• Triple Quartet (1975), for string ensemble

References

External links

• http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/ – personal website
• Full list of compositions
• Résumé