This is from the legendary Lisbon Concert, which album, of course, I've reviewed. The album was really well-done, the next best thing to actually seeing Riley live. "Arica" leads off the concert.
While searching YouTube for a Riley performance (which, strangely enough, don't seem to exist on YouTube, except for one or two concerts with lousy sound quality), I ran across a reference to "minimalist composer Terry Riley." Maybe once upon a time, about the time of In C, but he left that mode behind long ago. As far as I'm concerned, he's another American original in the mold of Ives, Copland, Bernstein, etc. Which is to say, unclassifiable.
While searching YouTube for a Riley performance (which, strangely enough, don't seem to exist on YouTube, except for one or two concerts with lousy sound quality), I ran across a reference to "minimalist composer Terry Riley." Maybe once upon a time, about the time of In C, but he left that mode behind long ago. As far as I'm concerned, he's another American original in the mold of Ives, Copland, Bernstein, etc. Which is to say, unclassifiable.
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