When this recording was released, composer Christian Wolff was the last man standing among the former members of the "New York School." Cage, Feldman, Tudor, and Earle Brown were all gone, their unique innovations in scoring and facilitating improvisation having passed into the hands of following generations. However, Wolff has never thought of himself that way, and although he shared the same formal concerns as his fellow composers in the New York School, his music has, and has always had, a considerably different ...
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When this recording was released, composer Christian Wolff was the last man standing among the former members of the "New York School." Cage, Feldman, Tudor, and Earle Brown were all gone, their unique innovations in scoring and facilitating improvisation having passed into the hands of following generations. However, Wolff has never thought of himself that way, and although he shared the same formal concerns as his fellow composers in the New York School, his music has, and has always had, a considerably different character from that of his colleagues. New World Records' Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises takes an all-star cast through 12 performances derived from his open scores published as Exercises 1-14 (1973-1974) and Exercises 15-18 (1975), works that, played end to end, might last a little over two hours. To arrive at the arrangement represented on the New World disc, the ensemble, whose ranks include Wolff's old friend Frederic Rzewski, trombonist Garrett List, composer Larry Polansky, and Wolff...
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