Via David Beardsley, the MELA Foundation announces, in honor of La Monte Young's 70th birthday, a performance of Trio for Strings at the Dream House in New York. Composed while Young was at UCLA, the trio is an early example of using long, sustained tones as the organizing principle and is a benchmark of the minimalism movement. It lasts about an hour.
The composer quoted by Keith Potter in Four Musical Minimalists:
The Trio is, he avers, 'a rather tonal piece. It's in some sort of C ... probably C-minor .... It doesn't start there, but it gets there...
Potter also suggests Milton Babbitt admired the music of Young at the time.
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And for those of us with more of a rock and roll bent, John Cale of the Velvet Underground played with Young
Posted by: Brian Shields | September 04, 2005 at 01:52 PM