aworks :: "new" american classical music

american classical top 72 (subject to change) - spotify playlist

• Added Peter Garland's Waves Breaking on Rocks, George Crumb's Pastoral Drone for Organ, Pauline Oliveros' Alien Bog, Dan Joseph's Lotus Quintet, and Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint (as played by Clare Chase). 
• Added Silent Duet by John Cage and Sun Ra, from the album Complete Performance. "Interestingly, Ra and Cage previously had little or no musical contact, something utterly inconceivable today and a sign of just how independently these pioneers were operating." And it shows, the silent work notwithstanding. 

american classical top 61 (subject to change) - spotify playlist

• First pass at my current favorites. 
• The David First track is not obviously classical music, although maybe it is art music. His Wikipedia page shows an overlap with classical and I first found about him via Kyle Gann's Village Voice column. I will include this, despite the eventual drum machine beat, electric guitar solo and pop-ish vocals.

Cikado Duo, Hilde Torgersen, Sisu - Will You Give Me To Tell You (2002). John Cage #album

Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 Guitars (2001/06). Glenn Branca

1. I wonder if Branca ever considered writing chamber music, for example, a drummer and just four flailing guitarists.