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In San Francisco in 1964, the world premiere of Terry Riley's "In C" spawned a movement that literally changed the face of modern music. "In C" was the first popular piece of what has come to be known as minimalist music, which typically consists of slowly evolving repetitive patterns. Since then, Riley's compositional style has gone through several incarnations. His contribution to modern music has always been a source of stimulation. In 1985, on Riley’s 50th birthday, KPFA honored this important composer with a live broadcast of a concert at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, by the Kronos Quartet, featuring all of Riley's music for string quartet, as well as an improvised keyboard performance in just intonation by the composer himself.

Genres

New music
Minimalism

Musical Selections

Cadenza on the Night Plain (1984) (36:40)

Performers

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello

Subjects

Minimal music
New music
String quartets

Related places

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Kronos Quartet
Jennings, Russ
Riley, Terry, 1935-
Harrington, David (Violinist)
Sherba, John
Dutt, Hank
Jeanrenaud, Joan
Owens, Alfred "Shabda"