Article: Nancarrow: 1912-1997. (Conlon Nancarrow, compositor norteamericano)(TA: Conlon Nancarrow, Norh American composer)

Transcript: Chasing the Melodies of Conlon Nancarrow
NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  July 26, 2008 ;     647 words ... ... 26-2008 Chasing the Melodies of Conlon Nancarrow Host: ANDREA SEABROOK Time 19:00 ... could appreciate double Dutch, it's Conlon Nancarrow. The late musician created pieces ... Commentator): If you're hearing Conlon Nancarrow's music for the first time, you ...

Article: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow.
Notes;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... study of expatriate American composer Conlon Nancarrow's music is overdue. The handful of ... A Commentary on the Music of Conlon Nancarrow" and James Tenney's "Conlon Nancarrow's STUDIES for Player Piano,

Article: Conlon Nancarrow: Quartets 1 & 3, and Studies
Strings;  April 1, 2008 ;     489 words ...Conlon Nancarrow: Quartets 1 & 3, and Studies. Ardirti Quartet: Irvine ... Lucas Fels, cello. (Wergo 66962) In the wake of musical maverick Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), whose preferred instrument had long been the player ...

Article: Obituary: Conlon Nancarrow
The Independent - London;  August 20, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Conlon Nancarrow belonged to the pioneer tradition of American composers succeeding Charles Ives and Henry Cowell, but most of his music was for ...

Article: Nancarrow's Canons: Projections of Temporal and Formal ...
Perspectives of New Music;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ...RARELY HAS A COMPOSER been devoted as persistently to the compositional technique of canon as Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997). Some three-quarters of his fifty-one "Studies" for player piano feature canons, often strict canons of ...

Article: Music: Conga, and the audience congas with you MICHAEL WHITE ON ...
The Independent - London;  August 15, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... problem in the main musicological item on this programme: a Study for Orchestra by one of Ives's pioneering successors, Conlon Nancarrow. The piece was deemed unperformable in Nancarrow's lifetime and this was its European premiere. I can understand why ...

Article: Arts: One piano, 10 hands, no performers For a composer to be ...
The Independent - London;  January 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Though they are still relatively little known, the Studies for Player Piano by the American composer Conlon Nancarrow, who died in 1997 aged 83, are among the most compelling works of the 20th century. Their incredible speed, energy and dynamism ...