This week’s Relevant Tones focuses on composers who have tried to step outside the box, redefine their definitions of music, and start over without limitations. We’ll be examining the works of Alvin Lucier, Chris Preissing, James Tenney, Lou Harrison, and more.
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (excerpt)
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James Tenney: Cellogram
William Jason Raynovich, Cello
Live in WFMT Studio
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Lou Harrison: Cornish Lancaran
Musicians of the Gamelan Si Betty, Berkeley Chamber Singers
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Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan, Toccata for Orchestra
Eastman/Rochester Symphony Orchestra-Hanson
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Harry Partch: Delusion and the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion (excerpt)
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Christopher Preissing: Pales
Angela DiOrio, Clarinet
Live in WFMT Studio
Steve Mackey: Indigenous instruments
Eighth Blackbird
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