Saturday, April 26, 2008

RIP, Henry



American musical innovations tend to get overshadowed by European ones. With polytonality, it's Stravinsky who gets the credit for modernizing the concept, even though Ives had done it earlier.

The concept of spatial music was re-popularized by Stockhausen and Boulez, even though Henry Brant had embraced the format a few years earlier.

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