Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae

The career of composer Lukas Foss falls rather neatly into three periods that somewhat overlap; his early, "neo-classic" period (1937-1956); the middle "experimental" period (1953-1980); and his late period, which witnessed a blend between his neo-classic and experimental styles (1979-2009). The four works on New World's Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae come from late in the experimental period; all four originated on two CRI LPs released around 1980 that for some reason CRI did not find the opportunity to re-release on CD in ... Read More

The career of composer Lukas Foss falls rather neatly into three periods that somewhat overlap; his early, "neo-classic" period (1937-1956); the middle "experimental" period (1953-1980); and his late period, which witnessed a blend between his neo-classic and experimental styles (1979-2009). The four works on New World's Lukas Foss: Curriculum Vitae come from late in the experimental period; all four originated on two CRI LPs released around 1980 that for some reason CRI did not find the opportunity to re-release on CD in the decade or so it produced digital recordings. The Columbia String Quartet, which was the group that premiered Morton Feldman's long and arduous String Quartet (1979), are heard in Foss' aggressive and intense String Quartet No. 3 (1976), which, rather like the music of Foss' student Julius Eastman, combines the fragment combination technique of Terry Riley's In C with darker, more in-your-face kinds of textures. Music for Six (1978) is for a combination of any six instruments that... Read Less

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