This program, first broadcast on May 26, 2013, examines three more great postmodern composers: Glenn Branca, who composed visceral symphonies for ensembles of electric guitars as well as for conventional orchestras; John Zorn, improvising alto saxophone player and composer of game systems as well as fully notated scores; and The Residents, the anonymous musicmaking group that reinvented rock music. I cite passages from my own interviews with Branca and Zorn and play the following works:
GLENN BRANCA
Symphony No. 8 (The Mystery), Second Movement (Spiritual Anarchy) (1992)
Symphony No. 9 (L’eve future) (1993) [excerpt]
JOHN ZORN
Locus Solus, “You Rang?”, “Self-Satisfied,” “Agora,” “Dot Dot Dot,” “Moi Non Plus,” “Liver,” “‘The Footman’s Eyes Get Crossed’” (1983)
Cat O’ Nine Tails (Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade) (1988)
Elegy, “Blue” (1991)
THE RESIDENTS
Meet The Residents, “Boots,” “Numb Erone,” “Guylum Bardot,” “Breath And Length,” “Consuelo’s Departure,” “Smelly Tongues” (1973)
Eskimo, “Festival of Death” (1979)
“drum no fife” (2009)
Link to:
Music: Radio Shows: Contents
For more on these composers, see:
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
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For more on Glenn Branca and The Residents, see:
Music Book: Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music
For more on Glenn Branca and John Zorn, see:
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
For more on The Residents, see:
Film Review: The Eyes Scream
Film Review: Triple Trouble
Music Lecture: My Experiences of Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music
Music: Radio Show #26, Surrealism in 20th-Century American Music
Music: Radio Show #27, 20th-Century Music on the March
For more on John Zorn, see:
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 