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...first moves after taking over was to give a push to an already conceived twelve-LP package devoted entirely to black composers from the 18th century to the present. Further, Columbia's February release will feature new American music by Leon Kirchner, George Crumb and Morton Subotnick. Lieberson has also given the green light to record everything ever written by Charles Ives...
...then transforming them electronically (musique concrete), or starting from scratch with an electronic sound synthesizer like the Moog (TIME, March 7). Electronic composers "write" on tape; their music was never intended for the traditional concert hall. "The trouble with the concert hall," says California's electronic composer Morton Subotnick, "is that it requires a social and theatrical esthetic that really has nothing to do with our music." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who today works primarily in the electronic idiom, agrees: "I make everything for stereo records. The record is the document of how I want my music...
...tradition. The participants: the twelve-member New York Pro Musica ensemble, whose long-time specialty has been little-known medieval and Renaissance music; the five-man Circus Maximus, a Manhattan-based rock group; a lighting crew from the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discothèque; and Electronic Composer Morton Subotnick, a professor at New York University...