Roger Reynolds

 












Updated 28 April 2025

INTERVIEWS-VIDEO




Salvatore Martirano Remembrance 10:33
by John Martirano

This remarkable composer was a friend and colleague for decades. His son, John, interviewed me in Del Mar for a film he planned regarding Sal: For Dad. Martirano was a man of daunting appetites in all regards. If an accompanist was not sufficiently engaging, Sal would climb on stage, push the offender off his bench and take over the role himself with his always amazing inventiveness. This film includes comments by George Lewis and Milton Babbitt along with myself as well as a peek at the fabled "Sal-Mar Construction".






Roger Talking about and to Jōji Yuasa 7:00
Filmed and Produced by Ryūhei Yuasa

When Karen and I arrived in Tōkyō in 1966, Yuasa and his family welcomed us in a way that rarely occurred between foreigners and locals. He later became a valued colleague at UC San Diego. When he returned to Tōkyō, his renown grew. When he passed away in 2024, his  painter and mixologist son Ryūhei and physician daughter Rena asked whether I would compose a video message as though I were talking directly to him. Ryūhei filmed and edited this memorialization which was featured at a ceremony in Tōkyō in 2025.











Creating george WASHINGTON
Filmed and Produced by Fairfax Network, Fairfax County Public Schools
29:41






SOUNDLAB New Music Podcasts, In-depth Interviews with international contemporary music artists
17 May 2018
10:53






Reynolds Receipt of the Revelle Medal
UC San Diego Revelle Medal Recipients, 2016
UCSD TV Documentation 10:53
Each year, UC San Diego presents the Revelle Medal to particularly meritorious individuals from the surrounding community that supports UC San Diego, and also from Faculty Members of distinction. The medal was named in honor of the visionary Scripps Oceanographer, Roger Revelle, a seminal figure in the initiation of the San Diego campus of the University of California. An admirably realized luncheon occurs each November at which those receiving the award are presented (in previously recorded and edited video interviews). Reynolds segment at 3:30.






Personal Vision and the Education of Young Composers in America
1:11:57, 14 April 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the National Gallery of Art






Intermedia Collaboration
1:07:56, 7 April 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the staff of the National Gallery of Art






Roger Reynolds: Excellence in Performing and Visual Arts Award
41st Annual Chancellor’s Associates Excellence Awards, 2015
4:34, 2 April 2015, UCSD TV Documentation
1:32:13






Mark Dresser with Tyshawn Sorey: Two Approaches to Making New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz
Two Approaches to Making New Music out of the Traditions of Jazz
1:32:13, March 2015, Recorded and mounted as a podcast by the National Gallery of Art






John Cage Centennial Festival Washington, DC 2012

Directors

Steve Antosca, Roger, and Karen Reynolds during a videotaped interview regarding the history of their work on the John Cage Centennial Washington, DC festival. The interview, arranged by Kyle Johnson, took place in the Reynolds' Southern California home in February 2013. Videographer, Kyle Johnson. Watch interview on vimeo


Mark Dresser Working with Roger Reynolds
5:08, 28 August 2011, Document source unknown






Composition in the United States Today
An Interview in connection with the NMC “Roger Reynolds and His Protégées” concert,
29 March 2009