Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

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  • Genre(s): Documentary
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Michael Blackwood
  • Cast(s): Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch
  • Duration: 58min
  • Similar To: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, The Perfect Neighbor
  • Story:
    American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cultural life. "I did not want to have any stricture at all, I wanted to be completely free." So spoke Harry Partch, describing not only his own path, but also that of two other influential American composers: Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. They were attracted to musical ideas and sounds outside of the surrounding classical mainstream. Together they offer a deeper understanding of what those alternatives are and how they have affected American culture.
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STORY

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American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's cultural life. "I did not want to have any stricture at all, I wanted to be completely free." So spoke Harry Partch, describing not only his own path, but also that of two other influential American composers: Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. They were attracted to musical ideas and sounds outside of the surrounding classical mainstream. Together they offer a deeper understanding of what those alternatives are and how they have affected American culture.

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Popular Dialogues

"Terry Riley: The ideas that we have as composers or performers are essentially ideas that come through us in our daily life just as our other experiences happen to us. Some days we might walk out in front of a car, some days, you know, we'll have a great inspiration to write a new orchestral piece. The way I view it now is that you do it always as a practice, as an everyday thing, you have some practices to do to keep you connected to it, to keep you fluent in it, and to keep the devotion there for it, to keep the love of doing it. Then when some kind of special inspiration happens, it creates a new piece or a new area to work on."

"Terry Riley: There's always an endless frontier in music, because we're dealing here with a person's soul, you're dealing with something that's very basic, it's a spiritual element, and so it's not all done because everybody is different. So when a new person- when someone is young and they see the frontiers of music differently than we did and they will hear things we didn't hear. What's going to be happening, I don't know how music will develop. But I feel like all the young musicians I know love it just as much as I do so that makes me think it looks just as exciting and new to them as it did to me."

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