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Soundings: Ives, Ruggles, Varèse
<div><span>Two essays by Lou Harrison reprinted from the ’40s, </span></div> <div><span>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.<br /> </span></div>
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