Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick

Until Spring Revisited

Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 – 7:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by Forest Park Community College

Mildred Bastian Theater

5600 Oakland Ave.

St. Louis, MO

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The internationally acclaimed Morton Subotnick is a pioneer in thedevelopment of electronic music and an innovator in works involvinginstruments and other media. Most of Subotnick's music calls fora computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizesmany of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of thegenre. A highly decorated talent, Subotnick has received multipleRockefeller Grants, the Guggenheim Grant, and ASCAP's John Cage Awardamong many others. Co-sponsored by Forest Park Community College,Subotnick will perform, Until Spring Revisited, a combinationelectronic music and video composition.

 

Subotnick's work, Silver Apples of the Moon brought celebrity in1967. The piece contains synthesized tone colors, striking forits day, and a control over pitch that many other contemporaryelectronic composers had relinquished. The record was an Americanbestseller in the classical music category, an extremely unusualoccurrence for any contemporary concert music at the time. Inaddition to music in the electronic medium, Subotnick has written forsymphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, theater, and multimediaproductions. His "staged tone poem," The Double Life ofAmphibians, a collaboration with director Lee Breuer and visual artistIrving Petlin, premiered at the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival in LosAngeles.

shit, i'm goin. i think it's free too.

Looks cool, wish I had a way to get there though.

Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 – 7:30 p.m.

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lol woops. I don't have a time machine so either I'm a year late or the website's fucked up. Probably the former. Goddamnit. I swear my brain just isn't working right today. I'm not even fucked up or anything.