Other Minds Programming ➔ Frederic Rzewski, half length portrait, playing the piano, as seen from the side and slightly above, (1996)
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John FagoIdentifier
IM.OM.FP.0003.003Dates
1996-11-01/1996-11-30 | createdWork Type
Photographic printImage Class
Composer & Performer PortraitsImage Series
OM03: Fago B&W PrintsDescription
Frederic Rzewski playing the piano during his visit to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the 3rd Other Minds Music Festival in November 1996. Rzewski is one of the most important American composer/performers of the late 20th century. Rzewski was born in 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard and Princeton, where he studied with Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt. In 1960 he went to Italy to study with Luigi Dallapiccola, and has continued to live in Europe for much of his life. He was a cofounder with Alvin Curran of the radical avant-garde group Musica Elettronica Viva, which was famous for their improvised electronic music concerts during the 1960s and 70s. The composer of a famous set of piano variations on Victor Jara's “El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido,” Rzewski is known for both his remarkable virtuosity as a performer, improviser and composer, and his committed involvement in leftist politics.Genres & Subjects
Portrait photographs--1990-2000Men
Composers
Pianists
Piano music
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Fago, JohnRzewski, Frederic
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