File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/avant-garde.9708, message 12


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




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