Dane Rudhyar • Three Melodies (1918/1955)

A performance of Dane Rudhyar’s “Three Melodies for Flute, with piano, & cello accompaniment“ a 1955 composition based on an earlier 1918 sketch. This was recorded on April 22, 1977 at the first concert of that year’s Palo Alto Music Festival. Born in France in 1895, Rudhyar moved to the United States in 1916, where he soon became known as a ultra-modern composer whose ideas about dissonant harmony influenced such composers as Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles. Rudhyar was also a painter, philosopher, and author of many books about astrology, psychology, and the cyclical nature of civilization. Elizabeth Coronata, flute Gay Wuthman, cello Karen Jacobs, piano Image: An untitled, undated drawing by Rudhyar