Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: La Monte Young, Process Music, Terry Riley
25 Apr 2016
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Doesn"t always need to be beautiful, sometimes good to think. Alternates with aleatory sections, freedom for what material to play. About future of planet, suggests music has something to tell us. Serious art requires serious attention and cannot be grasped immediately. Interested in bring elements of history in work. Defense for zwilich, symphony 1 (the neo-romantic style) Classical music needs to reconnect with its audience. Rorem: genius doesn"t lie in now being derivative. Nothing wrong with similar music, all about how you do it. Un-ending progress is not a necessity for great art. Questions idea that progress is good for art and needs to be difficult. Balancing of heart and brain, those music can co-exist. Diverse scene in which boundaries are coming down all around us. These styles, and many others exist side by side. Try to get sense and approach with open mind. Influenced by experimental music of 1950"s + growing turn against serialism.
