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Avant Garde Music: George Gershwin

The document discusses several avant-garde composers including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, and others. It provides biographical details and lists some of their major musical works. Gershwin was known for Broadway musicals that incorporated jazz elements. Bernstein was a renowned conductor and composer best known for West Side Story. Glass pioneered minimalist compositions using repetitive patterns and electronic sounds.

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Avant Garde Music: George Gershwin

The document discusses several avant-garde composers including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Glass, and others. It provides biographical details and lists some of their major musical works. Gershwin was known for Broadway musicals that incorporated jazz elements. Bernstein was a renowned conductor and composer best known for West Side Story. Glass pioneered minimalist compositions using repetitive patterns and electronic sounds.

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-Rhapsody in Blue (1924)

Avant Garde Music


-An American in Paris (jazz rhythms with classical

-closely associated with electronic music forms, 1928)

-dealt with the parameters or the dimensions of sound in -Porgy and Bess (1934)

space
-influenced by Ravel, Stravinsky, Berg, and Schoenberg,

-order of note groups could be varied so that musical and “Les Six”

continuity could be altered


-“crossover artist”

Improvisation -“Father of American Jazz”

-necessary in this style of music, for the musical scores -369 orchestral musics
were not necessarily followed as written
-died in Hollywood, California (July 11, 1937)

COMPOSERS:

 Truly unconventional composition techniques


Leonard
-George Gershwin and John Cage

 Famed stage musicals and music lectures for


Bernstein
young people
-born in Massachussetts, USA
-Leonard Bernstein
-charismatic conductor, pianist,
 Minimalist compositions composer, and lecturer

-Philip Glass -substitute to Bruno Walter

 Unconventional methods of sound and form -New York Philharmonic Orchestra (November 14, 1943)

 Absence of traditional rules


-“universal language of music is basically rooted in

-Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Philip Glass, Leonard tonality

Bernstein, George Gershwin, and Pierre Boulez


-conducting and composing for Broadway musicals,
dance shows, and concert music
George
-West Side Story (1957)

Gershwin -American version of Romeo and Juliet

-Candide (1956)
-born in New York to Russian
Jewish immigrants -Mass (1971)

-oldest brother was IRA -On the Waterfront (1954)

-La La Lucille (first Broadway musical, 119)


-“Young People’s Concerts (1958-1973)

-“Harvardian Lectures”

-90 musical compositions

-died in New York City, USA (October 14, 1990)

Philip Glass
-ballet, opera, theatre, film,
and television jingles

-cell-like phrases emanating


from bright electronic sound
from the keyboard with slow
patterns

-born in New York, USA

-Music in Similar Motion (1969)

-Music in Changing Parts (1970)

Combined rock-type grooves with perpetual patterns


played at extreme volumes

-collaborated with Robert Wilson

-four-hour opera Einstein on the Beach (1976)

-Satyagraha (1980)

-Akhnaten (1984)

-170 musical compostions

-lives in Nova Scotia and New York, USA

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