This show, first broadcast on August 4, 2017, is devoted to the music of La Monte Young. This highly influential pioneer of minimalist music is represented by three major works, one representing his early through-composed scores, and two masterpieces of his mature style, both of which call for improvisation with just-intonation tunings. Quotations from my own interview with Young are included. The music heard is:
LA MONTE YOUNG
On remembering a Naiad (1956)
The Well-Tuned Piano (1964-present) [excerpts]
The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on La Monte Young, see:
Film Review: Prism’s Colors, The Mechanics of Time
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: SFCR Radio Show #5, Minimalism
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 