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This Life of Sounds (Paperback)
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This Life of Sounds portrays an important and previously unexplored
corner of the history of new music in America: the Center of the
Creative and Performing Arts int eh State University of New York at
Buffalo. Composers Lukas Foss (the Center's founder), Lejaren
Hiller, and Morton Feldman were the music directors over the life
of "the Buffalo group," during the years 1964-1980. Based on Foss's
plan, the Rockefeller Foundation provided annual fellowships for
young composers and virtuoso instrumentalists to live in Buffalo
for up to two years, thus creating a cadre of like-minded musicians
who would spend their time studying, creating, and performing
difficult - often controversial - new work. The new legendary group
of musicians (some would say "musical outlows") who participated in
the Buffalo group included Pulitzer Prize winner George Crumb,
Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew, Maryanne Amacher, Frederic Rzewski,
David Tudor, Julius Eastman, and many more. Composers John Cage,
Jim Tenney, Iannis Xenakis and others all figure int he story as
well. The book provides valuable accounts of the Center's
influential concer series, Evenings for New Music, performed in
Buffalo, New York and throughout Europe; its famous recording of
Terry Riley's In C; the political activism of the time; and the
intersection of academic, private, and institutional funding for
the arts. Life magazine declared in an article about the 1965 Fest
of the Arts Today titled, "Can This Be Buffalo?", "Buffalo exploded
last month in a two-week avant garde festival that was bigger and
hipper than anything ever held in Paris or New York..." The
concerts, the festivals, and the adventurous musical climate
attracted filmmakers and young visual arts resulting in what one
person called "one of those kinds of places the way people talk
about Vienna in 1900-1910."
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