#american composer

[lesser-known-composers]

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) - La Savane, Op. 3 - Ballade Créole

Jimin Oh-Havenith, piano

[historybetweenthepages]

Jacob Druckman on the State of Contemporary Music | From the Archives: American Mavericks | WQXR

Druckman discusses his role as the composer-in-residence at the New York Phiharmonic and the impetus behind the New Horizons contemporary

Tim Page's (writer, music critic, editor, producer and professor) 1985 with the American composer and teacher Jacob Druckman on WQXR.

[menandwomanofhistory]

Quincy Porter

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...SOMEONE WHO IS INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE AND SO INCREDIBLY FAMOUS, HE DOESN'T NEED EYES!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on an eyeless portrait of American musician/ composer/ bandleader, Frank Zappa (1940-1993), photographed by Virginia Turbett in New York City on April 16, 1981.

UNDERGROUND ENGLAND: "Without fear or favour is there one band image that you would like to talk us through?"

VIRGINIA TURBETT: "A difficult question. This isn’t necessarily my favourite, but I like my photograph of Frank Zappa for a number of reasons. I’d taken myself to New York for a few days with nowhere to stay and nothing lined up to do so I called Jane Freidman, publicist, but more importantly she is ‘Sweet Jane’ of Velvet’s fame. She said, “I’ve got a press conference with Frank in the morning, why don’t you come along.”  Frank Zappa was promoting an Edgar Varèse retrospective conducted by Joel Thome.

During the press conference I decided to take photos that featured only his nose, moustache, and most of his heavily badged leather jacket. One of my things was to always print the whole 35mm frame, not to crop so I always intended that this photo be unmistakably Frank, but not a portrait in the strict sense that a portrait should have eyes…. it kind of worked and luckily, I did take a couple of full head shots but they’re mostly a sense of someone who is instantly recognisable and so incredibly famous he doesn’t need eyes!

When the press had left, Jane introduced me to Frank who responded with: “There’s only one people I hate more than the English and that’s the French”  Jane asked if I’d like to go to lunch with her and Frank, in his limo, to the Russian Tea Rooms (incredibly expensive restaurant) on Central Park.  I had loved Frank Zappa very much in my early teens and listening, very stoned, to him was part of my formative years so I found all this to be quite unbelievable on many levels."

Source: https://underground-england.com/the-sex-pistols-frank-zappas-moustache-and-rock-against-racism-the-photography-of-virginia-turbett.

[abwwia]

Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel (b. Sep 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She also plays the guitar and lute. via Wikipedia lauriespiegel net

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Morton Subotnick a pioneer of electronic music

[gottahavesoul]

Thelonious Monk: American Composer (1991)

[taishou-kun]

Walter Carlos – Sonic Seasonings vinyl covers - USA - 1972

Painting : Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716) - Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風 - Japan