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Music USA #5262-B [part], Duke Ellington at the White House, Part I

Description: The first part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This segment is the last 17 minutes of Music USA #5262-B, the rest of which featured the Miles Davis album "Odyssey!" (Prestige 7540). The program was originally broadcast on May 27, 1969.
Date: April 29, 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library

Act of Opening

Description: "Act of Openings" is a stereo composition made with Moog analog synthesis modules. Composed in 1968, its duration is 17'27. The score of the composition is a dense and modulated sound characterized by carefully controlled phase relationships. All the rhythmic and harmonic elements of the piece derive energy from a long, brilliant sound. Each part of the room is another glimpse of this sound, as a set of flowers form a bouquet. "Act of Openings" received the 2nd Prize at the 1969 Dartmouth Inter… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Weiss, Jonathan, 1949-
Partner: UNT Music Library

En avant la zizique

Description: Recording of Christian Clozier's En avant la zizique.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Clozier, Christian
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Batucadas

Description: Recording of Gabriel 's Batucadas. This is a piece entirely composed with electronic sounds. It is an elaboration based on pulsations that occur at different speeds leaning towards density accumulation. Static, shrill and strongly aggressive material that overflows the interrupted background of pulsations. The work was composed in 1973, during the last year of existence of the Laboratory of the Latin-American Center of High Music Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute.
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Date: 1969
Duration: 30 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Brnčić, Gabriel, 1942-
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Concentric. A question with two answers.

Description: Recording of Octavian Nemescu's "Concentric. A question with two answers." for instrumental ensemble and tape. The piece is a reaction to Charles Ives' "Unanswered Question," which is, in comparison, schizoid in nature, marked by breach, discord, disparity and incommunicability. There are three layered music layers in "Concentric" which join together to create a kind of communion that is timeless through the use of resonant harmonic issued by a fundamental sound C, placed in the deepest regist… more
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Date: 1969
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Nemescu, Octavian
Partner: UNT Music Library
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