DORIS HAYS+MORTON FELDMAN+HENRY COWELL 2 LP AVANT-GARDE

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MORTON FELDMAN / ILHAN MIMAROGLU / HENRY COWELL / DORIS HAYS

ADORATION OF THE CLASH 2LP

Finnadar Records

Rare double LP compilation from the 70's with pieces from avant-garde masters such as Morton Feldman, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Henry Cowell and Doris Hays. A must!!

Some info on the release: Excellent avant-garde double LP on Ilhan Mimaroglu's small alternative Finnadar label (that released also works from Jean Dubuffet, Eric Salzman, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Negative band, George Flynn, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp among others. Performed by the avant-garde female composer Doris Sorrel Hays (known also for her excellent "Voicings for Tape" on Folkways).

Morton Feldman was a major figure in 20th century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases. He was a pioneer in aleatoric music and indeterminate music, and in music requiring improvisation. His works are characterized by quietness, slowness, and often by their extreme length, especially in his later music.

Feldman studied piano with Madame Maurina-Press, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and later composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe. He did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them. He was composing at this time, but in a style very different from that with which he would later be associated.

In 1950, Feldman went to hear the New York Philharmonic give a performance of Anton Webern's Symphony. At the concert, he met John Cage. The two became good friends, with Feldman moving into the apartment downstairs from Cage. With encouragement from Cage, Feldman began to write pieces which had no relation to compositional systems of the past, such as the constraints of traditional harmony or the serial technique. He experimented with non-standard systems of musical notation, often using grids in his scores, and specifying how many notes should be played at a certain time, but not which ones. Feldman's experiments with the use of chance in his composition in turn inspired John Cage to write pieces like the Music of Changes, where the notes to be played are determined by consulting the I Ching.

Originally, Feldman was commissioned to compose the score for the 1961 film, Something Wild, but when the director heard the music, he promptly withdrew his commission, opting to enlist Aaron Copland instead. The reaction of the baffled director was said to be, "My wife is being reaped and you write celesta music?"

Through Cage, Feldman met many other prominent figures in the New York arts scene, among them Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Frank O'Hara. He found inspiration in the paintings of the abstract expressionists, and throughout the 1970s wrote a number of pieces around twenty-minutes in length, including Rothko Chapel (1971, written for the building of the same name which houses paintings by Mark Rothko) and For Frank O'Hara (1973). In 1977, he wrote the opera Neither with words by Samuel Beckett.

In 1973, at the age of 47, Feldman became the Edgard Varèse Professor (a title of his own devising) at the University at Buffalo. Prior to that time, Feldman had earned his living as a full-time employee at the family textile business in New York's garment district.

Doris Hays was contemporary with David Tudor, Tod Dockstader, also the musique concrete school of Pierre Henry, Charles Amirkhanian and of course Jon Appleton, Ruth Anderson, Larry Austin, Jerry Hunt and Charlemagne Palestine. 

Ilhan Mimaroglu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 March 1926, the son of the architect Kemalletin Mimaroglu. He graduated from Galatasaray Lisesi (High School) in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York thanks to a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore.

During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky and on occasions worked with Edgard Varése and Stefan Wolpe. He is an electronic music composer, and also was the producer for Changes One (Mingus) and Federico Fellini's Satyricon. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records and collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing me a Song of Songmy in the same year. His notable students include Ingram Marshall.  

Condition: Cover lies in excellent condition, very presentable w/sharp edges, while the vinyls lie in pristine excellent condition, look great except from a couple of surface marks that don't sound, minimal surface noise on a couple of passages on side C:.

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