Coming Together (1971). Frederic Rzweski /repeated text trinity/

Alvin Lucier via last.fm

In yesterday's links, I managed to name Frederic Rzewski as the composer of I Am Standing in a Room. Of course, it's instead Alvin Lucier.

I must have been thinking of Rzweski's Coming Together as I was watching Lucier's I Am StandingSitting in a Room. Both are monumental works based on repeated text and both are arguably each composer's best work. But clearly they are rather different pieces.

Another strange thing about my slip is just last week, I bought the Lovely Records CD of Lucier's Sferics and his Music for Solo Performer. So you'd think I would be more Lucier-aware.

I should also mention that last week, I listened to a third work in this newly-formed repeated text trinity -- Steve Reich's Come Out.

the repetitive text trinity

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Comments

[rchrd]

Actually, I think Alvin prefers sitting to standing.

[Robert Gable]

For my next post, I plan to confuse Alvin Lucier with Alvin Curran.