La Monte YOUNG The WELL-TUNED PIANO 5 LP Box minimalist
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Description
ARTIST: LA MONTE YOUNG
TITLE: THE WELL-TUNED PIANO
RECORD LABEL: GRAMAVISION 18-8701-1. 5 LP box set; 24 page full size booklet with extensive notes and photos. Stereo Vinyl. Direct to Metal Mastering.
DESCRIPTION: "Minimalist" solo piano.
Gorgeous recording. Rare.
"The 5-hour continuous concert."
Composed by La Monte Young.
Performed by La Monte Young in a setting of The Magenta Lights by Marian Zazeela.
Recorded live at the last 6 Harrison Street Dream Houseconcert of The Well-Tuned Piano,
New York City, October 25, 1981, presented by Dia Art Foundation.
Piano: Dia Custom Bösendorfer Imperial Grand.
Tuning Composed by La Monte Young in the system of just intonation.
La Monte Young
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, commonly seen as the first minimalist composer and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, despite having little in common formally with Glass and Reich. His works have been included among the most important and radical post World War II avant-garde, experimental, or drone music. Both his proto-Fluxus and "minimal" compositions question the nature and definition of music, and often stress elements of performance.
Born to a Mormon family in Bern, Idaho, his family moved several times in his childhood while his father searched for work before settling in Los Angeles, California. He studied at Los Angeles City College, and came out ahead of Eric Dolphy in a saxophone audition for the school's jazz band.
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La Monte Young, a pupil of John Cage and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement, is the real "inventor" of minimalism. The term originally referred to his "dream house", a New York loft in which Young and his Theater Of Eternal Music (comprising violinist Tony Conrad, viola player John Cale, trumpet player Jon Hassell, keyboardist Terry Riley and others) developed a music made of semi-stationary waves, of slowly evolving amorphous sound. Music became a living organism. Colossal pieces such as The Tortoise His Dreams And Journeys (1964) and A Well Tuned Piano (1964) offered little or no respite for western harmony, and created a bold bridge between John Cage's "alea", Buddhist meditation and psychedelia.
Link to analysis of the tuning.
Link to bio.
More Young.
Discography.
CONDITION:
VINYL (play- & visually graded): Plays NEAR MINT, very quiet vinyl. Has only a few very light scuffs, plus some very minor warps that do not affect play.
COVER: VG+, scuffing on edges & corners, beginning of split seam on 1 corner.
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PROFESSIONAL PACKAGING: Box is nestled in a protective two-layer bed of bubble wrap. Then it goes into a secure, crush-resistant new box. No split seams or mashed corners.
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