Ussachevsky+Luening+Powell: Music For Electronic & Older Instruments avant CRI

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Music For Electronic & Older Instruments-- Vladimir Ussachevsky: Of Wood And Brass (1965 for electronic tape); Wireless Fantasy (1960 for electronic tape) / Otto Luening + Ussachevsky: Concerted Piece For Tape Recorder And Orchestra (1960) / Mel Powell: Events For Tape Recorder (1963); Second Electronic Setting (1962); Improvisation (1962 for piano, clarinet, viola); Two Prayer Settings (1963 for chamber ensemble and tenor) label & cat. no.:CRI 227 USD pressed in:USA date:1968 format:LP Vinyl: vg+ (few light unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg+ (light wear)

description:
Excellent and rare early electronic pieces from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Wireless Fantasy is a stunning musique concrete piece made out of recordings of historic early radio transmission devices. The Concerted Piece For Tape Recorder And Orchestra is among the first to combine electronics with orchestra and is performed by the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by Jose Serebrier. The lesser known electronic and avant garde works by jazz-pianist-turned-experimental-composer Powell round out the album nicely.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Ussachevsky was born a Russian-Manchurian prince but fled to the US after the communist revolution; while teaching at Columbia he was placed in charge of maintaining their newly acquired tape recorder, which he began experimenting with as a compositional tool in the early 1950s. He was influenced by Edgard Varese and Roger Sessions, taught Charles Wuorinen and Ilhan Mimaroglu, and co-founded the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center where he pioneered electronic music along with Luening, Bulent Arel, Milton Babbitt, and Mario Davidovsky. • Luening was a flutist and electro-acoustic composer who studied under Jarnach, Andreae, and Busoni; he taught Charles Dodge, Charles Wuorinen, and John Corigliano, co-founded the revered CRI record label, and pioneered early electronic music with Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Ussachevsky and Luening, along with John Cage, Earle Brown, Raymond Scott, etc., were among the first Americans to experiment with electronics in the 50s and 60s; their work parallels that of other early musique concrete/tape music composers like Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Bernard Parmegiani, Francois Bernard Mache, Francois Bayle, Tod Dockstader, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Herbert Eimert, Rune Lindblad, Dick Raaijmakers, Tom Dissevelt, Henk Badings, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. • Mel Powell started off as a jazz pianist and arranger working with Benny Goodman, Raymond Scott, Muggsy Spanier, Bobby Hackett, and Glenn Miller, then studied under Paul Hindemith and became a serialist composer, working on early synthesizers at the legendary Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

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