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    La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist...
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  • lengthy compositions featuring relatively slight harmonic variations. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as "the sustained...
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  • LaMonte, Lamonte or La Monte may refer to the following people: Bob LaMonte, American sports agent Collene Lamonte, American politician from Michigan...
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  • late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly around the Bay Area, where La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich were studying and living at the time. After...
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  • musical group formed by La Monte Young in New York City in 1962. The first group (1962–1964) of performers consisted of La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Angus...
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  • Compositions 1960 (category La Monte Young albums)
    are a set of text-based musical pieces written in 1960 by composer La Monte Young. Building on the work of John Cage, these pieces are unique in their...
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    Alison Knowles, Addi Køpcke, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Shigeko Kubota, La Monte Young, Mary Bauermeister, Joseph Byrd, Ben Patterson, Daniel Spoerri, Eric...
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    collaborated with composer La Monte Young, and later became involved with both the San Francisco Tape Music Center and Young's New York collective, the...
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  • minimalist composer La Monte Young. Born to Russian Jewish parents and raised in the Bronx, Marian Zazeela was educated at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School...
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  • Dream House (installation) (category Compositions by La Monte Young)
    created by minimalist composer La Monte Young and multimedia artist Marian Zazeela. The installation features Young's continuous sine wave drones and...
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    founders of New York school of minimalist music, first initiated by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Phil Niblock, although...
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  • expressed her interest in the work of Swans, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, La Monte Young and Lightning Bolt as influences. Originally the solo project of Haela...
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    performed as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music (along with John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and others). He became recognized as a filmmaker for...
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  • songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young—and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per...
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    Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, La Monte Young, Neil Young, Yoko Ono, French avant-gardist Brigitte Fontaine, Patti Smith...
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  • Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition, early La Monte Young, Takehisa Kosugi, and the Analog #1 (Noise Study) (1961) by Fluxus-related...
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    in the 2000s. He has collaborated with artists such as C.C. Hennix, La Monte Young, George Maciunas, and John Berndt. Henry Flynt was born and raised in...
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  • Trio for Strings (category Compositions by La Monte Young)
    cello by American composer La Monte Young. It consists almost entirely of sustained tones and rests, and represents Young's first full embrace of "static"...
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    European composers were obliged to justify their work. Cale played in La Monte Young's ensemble the Theatre of Eternal Music. The heavily drone-laden music...
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  • influence on notable American minimalist and jazz musicians, including La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Don Cherry. He began performing in the United States...
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    ISBN 978-1-86074-347-4. Potter, Keith (2000). Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. Music in the Twentieth Century...
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    2010. Young, La Monte (1987). "Notes on The-Well Tuned Piano". The Well-Tuned Piano: 81 x 25 6:17:50-11:18:59 PM NYC (Media notes). La Monte Young. "Item...
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  • The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2024 English-language television miniseries directed by Bille August and starring Sam Claflin. It is an adaptation of the...
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    minimalist composers Terry Riley (on a 1968 recording of In C) and La Monte Young (as part of his Theatre of Eternal Music group), and studied under Hindustani...
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    Tribeca, to be used as a performance space for a series curated by La Monte Young and Richard Maxfield. Prior to this, most classical music performances...
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  • band. He was influenced greatly by his work with minimalist composer La Monte Young, John Cage and the early Fluxus movement, and encouraged the use of...
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  • The Well-Tuned Piano (category Compositions by La Monte Young)
    Piano is an ongoing improvisatory solo piano work begun in 1964 by La Monte Young. Young has never considered the composition or performance of this piece...
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    Monte Carlo (/ˌmɒnti ˈkɑːrloʊ/ MON-tee KAR-loh, Italian: [ˈmonte ˈkarlo]; French: Monte-Carlo, French: [mɔ̃te kaʁlo]; or colloquially Monte-Carl, French:...
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    Christopher Woodrow (born 1977), entrepreneur, financier, and movie producer La Monte Young (born 1935), composer, musician, and performance artist Robert De Niro...
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    movement exploration of falling bodies set to a mostly two-note score by La Monte Young, and William Forsythe's Quintett, a 1993 study in loss and hope to avant-garde...
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