Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:39:12 -0700 (PDT) From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-netcom.com> Subject: Re: Conlon Nancarrow (fwd) On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, malgosia askanas wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:28:48 -0800 > To: silence-AT-realtime.net > From: Herb Levy <herb-AT-eskimo.com> > Subject: Conlon Nancarrow > > I just returned home from the east coast to find a message on my answering > machine from Trimpin saying that Conlon Nancarrow died over the weekend in > Mexico City. Nancarrow would have been 85 in October. > > The American expatriate composer was best known for his series of studies > for player piano, composed and hand-punched on a custom machine, the medium > in which he worked almost exclusively for much of the last fifty years. Were these especially lengthy and inhumanly fast player-piano works? I once heard and was fascinated by something similar but didn't determine the author. http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/player.html --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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