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Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. (Musical Men).
Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. By Keith Potter. (Music in the Twentieth Century.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [xv, 390 p. ISBN 0-521-48250-X. $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-01501-4. $26 pbk.).]
Is it time yet to write the history of musical minimalism? Judging from books that have appeared within the past decade, some scholars and critics certainly think so. As the years have passed, minimalism as a movement unto itself--separate and distinct from other sorts of "experimental" composition that sprang up post-1950 and ended, at least in its "pure" form, around 1975--seems better defined than ever as ...
- Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela.
- Magazine article from: Notes Farneth, David March 1, 1998 700+ words
...May 1974), summarized, "[La Monte] Young's influence is unquestioned...individual and collaborative work of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela are compelled to examine the question "Who is La Monte Young?", and they are right to do...
- La Monte Young's 'The Well-Tuned Piano.' (Minimalism Forum)
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Gann, Kyle January 1, 1993 700+ words
La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano may well be the most important American piano work since Charles Ives's Concord Sonata - in size...
- "YES I WROTE IT, BUT I DIDN'T MEAN IT": HEARING THE UNINTENDED IN NIIMI...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music NUSS, STEVEN June 22, 1999 700+ words
...analysis. Remembering the indebtedness to and general fascination with non-Western musics claimed by the leading musical minimalists of our day, more and more fires spring up each time I read this sentence: what frame of reference or experience...
- Temperament tempest. (violin compositions of Tony Conrad)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Ratliff, Ben June 22, 1998 700+ words
...especially given its relationship to La Monte Young, a major figure in minimalist music...not all that different. Along with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, John Cale, and Angus...a part of public memory, because La Monte Young, who owns the tapes, has never released...
- MINIMALIST REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO JOHN ADAMS.(U)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) March 25, 2006 700+ words
...March 30.) Like many other authorities, Ross credits La Monte Young and Terry Riley as Minimalism's co-creators. But Adams...festival, Young has been excluded. ``I do not include La Monte Young,'' says Adams. ``I know his fans are adamant about saying...
- Flux acts. (Fluxus art movement, traveling exhibition) (includes related...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Johnston, Jill June 1, 1994 700+ words
...Brecht and Anderson, were Nam June Paik, Robert Watts, La Monte Young, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Maclow, Philip...Else Press. Certain early Fluxus artists like composer La Monte Young left the "movement" quickly, Young by '64 electing to...
- Ono, Yoko
- Reference information from: Contemporary Musicians Decker, Ed January 1, 1994 700+ words
...x201C; events ” organized by eccentric composer La Monte Young. Young was part of a movement known as Fluxus that attempted...Gate, New York City, 1961; collaborated with composers La Monte Young, John Cage, and Ornette Coleman in art shows and musical...
- 200 guitars come out to play ; Rhys Chatham will try again to bring his epic...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune WILL HERMES July 28, 2009 700+ words
...including Glenn Gould. He also worked for, and studied with, La Monte Young, the transplant from the West Coast whose reductive strategies...Ghanaian music, Phil Glass uses jazz instrumentation, La Monte Young comes out of Indian music. I've got to find my own thing...
Source: HighBeam Research, Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich,...