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Feb 23 2008

Avant-Garde Take Note

Posted by Steve Layton in Contemporary Classical, Strange

And you thought all those novel techniques came from post-1950s Euro-modernists?:

Nathan, Jasper and Weldon Drake; Weslaco, Texas, 1942 (Thanks to the amazing historical high-res archives at Shorpy.com)

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3 Responses to “Avant-Garde Take Note”
  1. Kyle Gann says:
    February 23, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Aw, that’s nothin’. Have you heard the Ferneyhough Sonata for piccolo four-hands?

  2. James Combs says:
    February 23, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    For a second, I thought the guy had four arms…., must have picked the wrong mushrooms out of the garden :) .

  3. Sparky P. says:
    February 24, 2008 at 1:16 am

    And there is also PDQ Bach’s Sonata for Viola Four Hands.

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