This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo

Renee Levine Packer

Oxford University Press, Jul 23, 2010 - Music - 256 pages

This book is an invaluable chronicle of an exuberant time of artistic exploration and experimentation populated by now legendary figures such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Terry Riley, Julius Eastman, David Tudor, and many others who were part of this under-known chapter of late 20th century music history. Levine Packer brings it to life once again.

Contents

• Experimental Music in Buffalo: 3
• Evenings for New Music in Buffalo: 11
• 1 The Rockefeller Years 1964 to Spring 1968: 15
• Fall 1968 to 1972: 79
• Fall 1972: 115
• 1977 to 1980: 165
• 5 Postscript: 187
• Appendix 1 Time Line: 191
• Appendix 2 Interviews: 193
• Appendix 3 Creative Associates 1964 to 1980: 197
• Appendix 4 Creative Associate Graduate Fellows: 201
• Appendix 5 Selected Discography of Recordings by Members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts: 203
• Notes: 209
• Bibliography: 227
• Index: 233

About the author

Born in France, raised in New York and Mexico City, Levine Packer worked with Lukas Foss and was co-director with Morton Feldman of the renowned contemporary music group in Buffalo, New York, and a director of the Contemporary Music Festival at the California Institute of the Arts. She was Director of the Inter-Arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts, the producer of Steve Reich and Beryl Korots multimedia opera The Cave, and a dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Bibliographic information

• Title: This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music in Buffalo
• Author: Renee Levine Packer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0199781532, 9780199781539
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Music / History & Criticism