{"id":4884,"date":"2012-05-30T18:53:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2012-05-30T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:53:12","slug":"lamonte-youngs-gradual-unfolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/lamonte-youngs-gradual-unfolding\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMonte Young&#8217;s Gradual Unfolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1980 I hitchhiked to New York to hear LaMonte Young perform The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Arts Foundation building.  I had been interested in his music since I read Robert Palmer&#8217;s 1975 piece about him in Rolling Stone, titled &#8220;When La Monte Young Says &#8216;Take It From The Top,&#8217; He Means Last Tuesday.&#8221;  1975 was also the year I discovered, and fell in love with, the music of Harry Partch (I was a weirder kid than I am adult, and I&#8217;m plenty weird).<\/p>\n<p>My wife gave me Jeremy Grimshaw&#8217;s biographical study of Young, <em>&#8220;Draw A Straight Line And Follow It&#8221;<\/em> for my birthday (I&#8217;m fifty-four! Yikes!).  Not being a Mormon, I found some of Grimshaw&#8217;s attempts to rationalize Young&#8217;s music-theoretical ideas under an LDS rubric somewhat bizarre (LSD seems more likely to me).  Regardless, there was a lot of good information in the book which helped me understand more about the composer&#8217;s artistic trajectory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tT0odgyP9w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Five Small Pieces For String Quartet<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7-hQ6TZTGk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just Charles &#038; Cello in The Romantic Chord <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1980 I hitchhiked to New York to hear LaMonte Young perform The Well-Tuned Piano at the Dia Arts Foundation building. I had been interested in his music since I read Robert Palmer&#8217;s 1975 piece about him in Rolling Stone, titled &#8220;When La Monte Young Says &#8216;Take It From The Top,&#8217; He Means Last Tuesday.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}