Terry Riley coming to Big Ears in 2010
November 18th, 2009 by Chad Radford in Music news
From March 26-28, Knoxville, Tenn., is hosting the second annual Big Ears festival of “visionary music, exploratory art, and southern hospitality.”
Terry Riley will serve as this year’s Artist in Residence for the weekend with a series of concerts celebrating his 75th year on this planet.
The Daily Swarm says,
“One of the most influential musicians and composers of the past century, Terry Riley’s impact and influence on contemporary music and art cannot be overstated. In 1964, his revolutionary composition, In C, launched the Minimalist movement in music and his influence is still heard today in the work of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams and other classical composers. His subsequent early works, A Rainbow in Curved Air and Poppy Nogood, with their kaleidoscopic, psychedelic atmospheres, sent waves across the musical worlds of the 1960s, strongly reflected in the music of the Who, Pink Floyd, and other rock bands of the time. That influence continues today in the music of Radiohead and Animal Collective and even the National and Bon Iver. It’s no surprise that Terry Riley was recently selected by the London Times as one of the ‘1000 Makers of the 20th Century.’”
(Photo courtesy The Daily Swarm)
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