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Soundings: Ives, Ruggles, Varèse

Press/Orga: Soundings

Year: 1974
Country: United States
Format: Mag/Lit
Description:
Two essays by Lou Harrison reprinted from the ’40s,
compositions by Philip Corner, Peter Garland, Malcolm Goldstein, and James Tenney, both in music and prose, that explore their kinship to the Big 3. Goldstein’s piano quartet Majority--1964, for examples quotes fragments of Ives in twists and clusters and encourages Ives-inspired improvisatory flight. Here Ives’s music becomes a throbbing pulse center, not a relic of the past but an organic connection to the present. In disjointed reflections after Ruggles’s death, Philip Corner struggles to understand why the composer’s output was so small: “Great works--for orchestra--big ones--but only a few.
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