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"Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Bâela Bartâok, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartâok tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his…mehr

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"Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Bâela Bartâok, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartâok tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his ultramodern serialist work was quite a different proposition to Kirchner's own"--
Autorenporträt
Tom Perchard's work centres on the history and historiography of jazz and popular music. He is the author of After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France (2015) and Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture (2006). He is the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project on popular music in the postwar British home.