Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara LP 1976 1st Press CBS Rare
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Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel / For Frank O'Hara LP 1976 1st Press CBS Rare Archival Sleeve
These are fantastic compositions and performances Side 1 has some surface noise and some pops & clicks, The music is so interesting it didn't both me.
Rothko Chapel:
for chorus, viola and percussion
This recording made possible through funds from the Menil Foundation.
For Frank O'Hara:
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
This recording made possible through funds from the Buffalo Center of the Creative and Performing Arts.
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.
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 abstract expressionist painting, and in the 1970s wrote a number of pieces around 20 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).
Feldman's masterpiece Rothko Chapel , a chamber-ensemble-and-chorus evocation of the Houston, Texas, chapel adorned with paintings by, and partly designed by, the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.
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