David Cope
The Way / Concert (LP)
FormatLPLabelOpus OneGenreExperimental
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By 1982 Cope was Dickerson Professor at UC Santa Cruz and his textbook New Directions in Music was on every American conservatory shelf.
Side A is The Way, a piece for a single performer playing fifty-two instruments Cope built himself (drawn from a personal collection of over two hundred): a half-hour of struck metal, blown reeds, scraped wood and processed voice, performed solo. Side B is Concert (1979), a 27-minute piano-and-orchestra work performed by Mary Jane Cope, refusing concerto-form conventions: soloist and ensemble overlap rather than alternate, orchestral writing thins to spectral texture. The Opus One label, run by Max Schubel, served American composers the larger CRI-type labels were dropping by the early eighties.
Release notes
“Concert” was completed in 1979 for piano and orchestra, and was recorded by Gordon Mumma on December 5 and 6, 1981. “The Way” performed on 52 original instruments and voice by David Cope was recorded (using no over-dubbing) December 28 – 31, 1981 by Transparent Recordings. Special thanks for the production of this album go to: the UCSC Research committee, Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer of UCSC, Gordon Mumma, Philip Nelson, Provost of Porter College, UCSC; Ensemble Nova; Marian Lewis; Mary Jane…
| A1 | The Way | 14:53 | |
| Concert | |||
| A2 | First Movement | 6:10 | |
| B1 | Second Movement | 10:23 | |
| B2 | Third Movement | 10:40 | |
- Timothy Cope
- Artwork [Cover Drawing], Layout
- David Cope
- Composed By, Liner Notes
