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| Artist Focus | ...With Suzy Klein. Featuring Kronos Quartet, a group which has collaborated with many different composers from around the world, and who are heard performing music by TERRY RILEY ... |
| Between The Ears | ...Nothing touches us quite like the death of a child. For a parent, it's the worst thing that can happen, almost too painful to contemplate. But artists have nevertheless been drawn to reflect on the loss. The son of violinist David Harrington died suddenly on Easter Day 1995. TERRY RILEY composed a 'Requiem for Adam' for David's group, the Kronos Quartet to perform in his memory. Evie Clarke began writing poems after being diagnosed with a tumour in the spring of 2003. Her father Nigel now treasures his 8 year old daughter's poetic legacy. Inspired by Mahler's settings of poems on the deaths of two of the poet Rückert's children, Kindertotenlied reflects on how art can help confront the inexpressible.... |
| Hear And Now | ...The programme includes John's recordings of music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, TERRY RILEY, Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton, as well as an improvisation with drummer Eddie Prevost, and Beckett's Rough For Radio 1.... |
| Late Junction | ...Fiona Talkington presents a varied mix of music, including an excerpt from TERRY RILEY's 1980s epic Salome Dances for Peace played by the Kronos Quartet, Mongolian traditional pieces, plus an improvisation for trumpet and sampler by Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang.... |
| Minimalists, The | ...In the first programme Donald Macleod looks at key works by those protagonists - La Monte Young, TERRY RILEY, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, against the backdrop of 1960s America.... |
| Private Passions | ...Sibelius, Beethoven, TERRY RILEY and Miles Davis.... |
| Secret Kind Of Blue, The | ...It's not just the best-known Miles Davis album, it's one of the most familiar and influential sounds in jazz. But Kind of Blue is not just one of the greatest jazz albums ever made. It transcends genre. You can hear echoes of Kind of Blue in rock and electronica; the work of minimalist composers like TERRY RILEY and Steve Reich; and even the Godfather of Soul James Brown stole a riff from it for his hit single Cold Sweat. Kind of Blue is also a deeply personal album. With its distinctive mood and atmosphere, it has provided a soundtrack to pivotal times in many listeners' lives.... |
| Synthesisers Never Eat A Pastrami Sandwich | ...Natalie Wheen explores the independent path taken by American music, which has gone its own way since the end of the Civil War. From Charles Ives onwards, experimentation and innovation has been the order of the day, rather than looking back to European models. This American tradition has revitalised music today. With contributions from Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, Henry Brant, Kyle Gann, Alvin Lucier, Carl Stone, La Monte Young, TERRY RILEY and Robert Ashley.... |