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  • How I became a fan of George Crumb

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    George Crumb via last.fm From the Times Online, reviews of recent Crumb performances. The American composer George Crumb, who has just turned 80, is a pioneering spirit in the native tradition of Ives, Cowell and Cage, a figure with his roots in band music, gospel music and early jazz, but one who grafted himself onto…

  • Crumb is All the Rage Again

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    Image via Wikipedia From the New York Times: George Crumb and his music are getting a second wind these days. In the 1970s Mr. Crumb’s colorful, idiosyncratic chamber works were all the rage: no self-respecting new-music fan, particularly of college age, was without the Nonesuch recording of his “Ancient Voices of Children” (1970), and his…