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George Crumb, an influential and deeply American composer


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https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2022/02/07/847418700/george-crumb-an-influential-and-deeply-american-composer-has-died-at-age-92

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/obituaries/george-crumb-dead.html

 

"Despite its avant-garde nature, Crumb’s work was influential to a number of artists such as Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and David Bowie. In 2003, Bowie listed Crumb’s 1972 LP Black Angels, composed during the bleak days of the Vietnam War, as one of his favorite albums of all time. “I heard this piece for the first time in the darkest time of my own 70s, and it scared the bejabbers out of me,” Bowie said of Black Angels in an article for Vanity Fair. “It’s still hard for me to hear this piece without a sense of foreboding. Truly, at times, it sounds like the devil’s own work.”

 

 

 

 

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