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Quote of the Week: La Monte Young’s Stasis

[ June 20, 2009 / Department: field notes / Leave a comment ]

From a June 12 blog entry by composer-critic Kyle Gann:

    La Monte Young showed me his early string quartet in which the five movements are all almost identical, and I asked him why, and after a moment’s musing he responded, “Contrast is for people who can’t write music.”

Full post at artsjournal.com/postclassic.

By Marc Weidenbaum

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