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by the American composer Ramon Zupko, who was born in Pittsburgh and
taught at Western Michigan University, whose studio for electronic and
computer music he founded and directed. He is now professor emeritus. I
know his music exclusively from releases on CRI records. Although he
won numerous awards and commissions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship
in 1981, to my knowledge, none of his works are still in print either
on CRI or on other labels. This may be in part because he was not part
of any of the easily definable movements of 20th century music. I very much enjoyed listening to these works while transcribing them--in particular the first, for string quartet. The harmonies are all over the map, yet to my ear everything he does sounds fundamentally right. It reminds me of Bartok's string quartets in places, but it is by no means derivative. The recording by William Allgood is rich and detailed. The other works are for brass quintet, piano duet, and piano. Two more works by Zupko will be included in next week's collection of electroacoustic compositions. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the liner notes from the two LPs transcribed for this installment. To download
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