This composer created a piece for two pianos for Quattro Mani entitled Otherworldly Resonances. His cycle including Night of the Four Moons and Ancient Voices of Children is based upon poetry of Garcia Lorca. One of his pieces has performers play maracas and water-tuned crystal goblets with a bow pr
This composer created a piece for two pianos for Quattro Mani entitled Otherworldly Resonances. His cycle including Night of the Four Moons and Ancient Voices of Children is based upon poetry of Garcia Lorca. One of his pieces has performers play maracas and water-tuned crystal goblets with a bow producing a "glass-harmonica" effect – that piece is inscribed with the notation that it was finished on "Friday the Thirteenth." This one-time teacher at the University of Pennsylvania alluded to Belá Bartok in writing four books of Makrokosmos, the last of which is Celestial Mechanics. His aforementioned best-known work begins and ends with sections titled "Threnody: Night of the Electric Insects," and is subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land." FTP, name this ► modern American composer of Black Angels, for electric string quartet.
This composer created a piece for two pianos for Quattro Mani entitled Otherworldly Resonances.
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