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Author:   Renee Levine Packer
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780199730773

ISBN 10:   0199730776
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PRELUDE: A STUDY IN SONORITY; CREATING THE CENTER; GETTING THEIR GONGS WET; SETTLING IN; ""CAN THIS BE BUFFALO?""; ""ADAGIO"" AND ""CANTO""; DAVID TUDOR; NEWS FOR YOU; EXCAVATING RICHES; COMPOSER-PERFORMERS; RENEWAL AND INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE; THE BERKELEY OF THE EAST; DIAMONDS AND MUD; AQUARIUM; TECHNOLOGY RISING; CONTINUANCE; ILLIACS AND OSCILLATORS; MUSIC AND THEATER; A HOLIDAY ANGEL; JULIUS EASTMAN; FUSION; CORNUCOPIA; TURMOIL; EARLY SEVENTIES; MAD KINGS AND MAKING DO; THE TENTH YEAR; CLOSER TO HOME; SHAKEUP; THE CONTINUOUS PRESENT; JUNE IN BUFFALO; BOSTON HARBOR; ULTRASONICS, SUBLIMINAL LIGHT AND SOUND; A LECTURE ON THE WEATHER; LATE JANUARY 1977; MUSIC OF CHANGES; A CRITICAL FALL; ""IT'S LIKE THE LOVE CANAL""; HPSCHD AND BEYOND; NON-CONTINUANCE; AFTER IMAGE; APPENDIX 1: CHRONOLOGY; APPENDIX 2: LIST OF INTERVIEWS; APPENDIX 3: LIST OF CREATIVE ASSOCIATES; APPENDIX 4: LIST OF CREATIVE ASSOCIATE GRADUATE FELLOWS; APPENDIX 5: SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY; ENDNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX"

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<br> One of the cardinal books in the astounding Buffalo Bookshelf we've seen accrete in the past 15 years...A glorious celebration of the other Buffalo, the aristocratic, innovative city in which a cultural miracle took place whose inspiring residue is still with us, even in an era of decline. --Jeff Simon, Buffalo News <br> In the 1960s a lively New Music scene began at the State University of New York at Buffalo which culminated with the appointment of Morton Feldman as director in the 1970s. He began the June in Buffalo festival which continues to this day. Renee Levine was there at the very beginning as Managing Director and her highly informative book is undoubtedly the best primary source we will ever have about New Music in Buffalo and its offshoots during this tumultuous period. -Steve Reich <br> I had long known that the Creative Associates at Buffalo in the 1960s and '70s were an unprecedented hothouse of wild musical exploration, but Renee Levine Packer's insightfu

<br> One of the cardinal books in the astounding Buffalo Bookshelf we've seen accrete in the past 15 years...A glorious celebration of the other Buffalo, the aristocratic, innovative city in which a cultural miracle took place whose inspiring residue is still with us, even in an era of decline. --Jeff Simon, Buffalo News<br><p><br> In the 1960s a lively New Music scene began at the State University of New York at Buffalo which culminated with the appointment of Morton Feldman as director in the 1970s. He began the June in Buffalo festival which continues to this day. Ren?e Levine was there at the very beginning as Managing Director and her highly informative book is undoubtedly the best primary source we will ever have about New Music in Buffalo and its offshoots during this tumultuous period. -Steve Reich <br><p><br> I had long known that the Creative Associates at Buffalo in the 1960s and '70s were an unprecedented hothouse of wild musical exploration, but Ren?e Levine Packer's insi

Author Information

Born in France, raised in New York and Mexico City, Levin Packer was co-director with Lukas Foss and Morton Feldman of the renowned contemporary music group in Buffalo, New York, and a director of the Contemporary Music Festival at teh 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 Korot's multimedia opera The Cave, and a dean at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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