Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

After several graph compositions and early pattern pieces with jazz ensembles in the late ’50s and early ’60s (see “Concert for Two Pianists and Tape Recorders“ and “Ear Piece“ in La Monte Young’s book An Anthology), Riley invented a whole new music which has since gone under many names (minimal music -- a category often applied to sustained pieces as well -- pattern music, phase music, etc.) which is set forth in its purest form in the famous “In C“ (1964) (for saxophone and ensemble, CBS MK 7178). “Rainbo