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L' Instruction Oratorio
Frederic Rzewski is an American composer, now resident in Belgium, of mostly chamber, vocal and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a pianist. Prof. Rzewski studied music privately with Charles Mackey in Springfield as a child and studied composition with Walter Piston and Roger Sessions, counterpoint with Randall Thompson and orchestration with Claudio Spies at Harvard University from 1954-58. He studied composition with Milton Babbitt and the music o…
La Rose des voix
"la rose de voix" was is an amazing collaborative work, conceived by its two authors as a musical meeting of the music from the four corners of the earth. A complex work for four speakers, four vocal quartets, four choirs and eight instruments; (in collaboration with Michel Butor); double bass, clarinet, tuba, saxophone, accordian, guitar, piano, 2 percussion. A masterpiece, very rare nowadays, 1 copy available.