This program, first broadcast on July 16, 2013, discusses the fundamentals of Daoist thought and examines its role in the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, pioneering early modernist composer; instrument-builder Harry Partch; indeterminate composer John Cage; The Beatles, the outstanding rock band of the 20th century; and Steve Lacy, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist and composer. These works are heard:
RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Prelude No. 9 (1928)
HARRY PARTCH
Bitter Music, “July 20, 1935” (1936)
Eleven Intrusions, “The Wind” (1949-1950)
Revelation in the Courthouse Park, Chorus 2 (1960)
Water! Water! (1961) [excerpts]
JOHN CAGE
Indeterminacy (1959) [excerpts]
THE BEATLES
“The Inner Light” (1968)
STEVE LACY
Tao, “The Breath” (1979)
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For more on Daoism, see:
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Music: SFCR Radio Show #9, Daoism in Western Music, part 2
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 The Beatles, John Cage, and Steve Lacy, see:
Music: KALW Radio Show #3, Ancient China in 20th-Century Music
For more on John Cage, see:
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Music: SFCR Radio Show #22, Neo-Classicism, part 3
Music: SFCR Radio Show #25, Schoenberg in America
Music: SFCR Radio Show #29, Electro-Acoustic Music, part 1: New Instruments
For more on John Cage and Ruth Crawford Seeger, see:
Music Lecture: “Intense Purity of Feeling”: Béla Bartók and American Music
For more on John Cage and Harry Partch, see:
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Music: SFCR Radio Show #4, Postmodernism, part 1: Three Founders
For more on Ruth Crawford Seeger, see:
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For more on Harry Partch, see:
Music Essay: Anne LeBaron, Hyperopera, and Crescent City: Some Historical Perspectives
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Music: KALW Radio Show #5, Gender Variance in Western Music, part 1: Male-to-Female Representations
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 