If you want to see the long tape delay thing in action, here you go...Robert Fripp

 

Where will you be performing?

 

As part of my ongoing post-retirement schooling, I'm enrolled at San Francisco State University in a program called "Elder College". In this program, if you are 55 year old, or older, you can take any class at the University (with some program exceptions) for $55. You need instructor permission, there has to be room in the class, and you don't get a grade or credit towards a degree. I'm 68, I don't need another degree!

So far I've taken two semesters of Conducting, Counterpoint, 20th Century Compositional Techniques, and I'm currently enrolled in Advanced Tonal Harmony and a graduate level Score Analysis class. However, I was not able to take an "Electronic Music Production" class, as it was completely full and none of those 19 year old kids who want to make hip-hop beats, dropped in the first two weeks!

As part of my THANK YOU!!!! to the Department for letting me do this, I am putting on a two-day "San Francisco Bay Area Composers" symposium. We start out with Henry Cowell. During the two days we feature:
John Cage - studied with Henry Cowell at UC Berkeley and Mills College
Terry Riley - also studied with Henry Cowell
Lou Harrison - ALSO studied with Henry Cowell ....are you getting the idea about how important Henry Cowell was?
Ernest Bloch - was on the UC Berkeley faculty for 25+ years
Darius Milhaud - Was on the Mills College faculty for decades. Two of his most recognizeable students were Dave Brubeck and Burt Bacharach
Morton Subotnick - one of the founding souls at the San Francisco Tape Music Center

For "what's happening now?" We have opera composer Carla Lucero
from her opera "Juana" --

Mauricio Rodriguez (composition faculty at the SF Conservatory) Mauricio Rodriguez | Composer

Kev Choice - Oakland based, SFSU Professor who is a killer jazz pianist and rapper...has an MS from I forget which conservatory in "classical" piano, as well. He's playing with the string quartet that he usually performs with.

And our own SFSU professor, and my personal mentor #2, Ben Sabey

Part of the program is "What's New at SFSU?" ...which will feature new works by San Francisco State University students. They'll be playing my String Quartet #1 and a woodwind quintet arrangement of the Ukrainian folk song "Plyve Kacha" as well works by others of my friends and colleagues.

I, personally will be doing....1.) the Terry Riley "Dorian Reeds"... 2.) a heavy-on-the-multiphonics new piece written for me by Mauricio Rodriguez ... 3.) conducting the combined SFSU and Harmonia California (the orchestra I founded) string sections in "Hymn and Fugueing Tune #8"by Henry Cowell. and 4.) hanging out while friends play that string quartet and woodwind quintet.

WHEN? Thursday November 13th and Friday November 14th at San Francisco State University

----THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER---

 

Oh, I left out choral composer Kirke Mechem, who just had his 100th birthday! I got to chat with him for a minute, last night. Here's something of Kirke's.

 

That's a rather long answer to your question, the_eleven !!

 

Fantastic response!

I live in SF and will try to attend some of these events.

 

You could show this on a projector while, or before, performing:

Full 264 pages:

The picture of Dorian Gray : Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

251 p. ; 17 cm

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I got to see Fripp doing that Frippertronic thing when he took it on tour ( don't ask me when that was, I suck at dates ) but I do remember it was at a club called ' Le Pretzel en Chaine ' in Montreal.I was really looking forward to it having already heard some on his albums with Brian Eno. He's an amazing guitar player and to see him accompanying himself was a blast. At one point he came off the stage and sat at my table in order to get the audience's view of his playing while the loops went on. Didn't say a word, just sat and listened to himself for about ten minutes, then got back up and played with himself again. Kind of what you expect from someone who speaks of himself in the third person ( this Fripp will now entertain you with...).