"It seems particularly timely and appropriate to be writing about Terry Riley in 2005, the year of his seventieth birthday, when a spirit of festive celebration fills the air. A free spirit, maverick par excellence, creator of a personal compositional style that has spawned entire generations of epigones, he certainly deserves these sumptuous celebrations. Terry Riley is the kind of intellectual who embodies the best aspects of the American pioneer spirit, the positive and uncorrupted image of America (and California, in particular) that still holds abroad: an America free from the weight of European tradition, a privileged space where a fusion of Western and Eastern cultural trends can be produced. ... For more than forty years Riley’s music has engaged us, relentlessly developing in intensity and enlarging its scope, its author courageously exploring ever-new styles and compositional devices and smelting them into a unique syncretic synthesis. ..."
DRAM Online
#2472: Assassin Reverie (Audio)
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YouTube: Tread on the Trail (version for 12 saxophones)
December 2007: Terry Riley, March 2010: In C, December 2010: Terry Riley & Gyan Riley, April 2011: Terry Riley - Shri Camel: Morning Corona, Terry Riley rare footage, live in the 70s, 2014 March: Kronos Quartet Plays Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace (1989), 2014 June: Solo piano works, Moscow Conservatory. April 18th, 2000, A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969), 2017 August: “A Particular Glow” – On Loving Terry Riley, 2017 September: Terry Riley On Tape Loops
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