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Philip Corner
12+ albums
contemporary classicalexperimentalfluxusmusique concretecomposer
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Philip Corner (born April 10, 1933) is an American composer, trombonist, vocalist, and pianist. Biography Philip Corner studied at Columbia University with Otto Luening and Henry Cowell, later with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire and privately with Dorothy Taubman in New York. He taught at the New Lincoln School in New York from 1966-1972, the New School for Social Research from 1967-1970 and Rutgers University from 1972-1992, after which point he moved to Reggio Emilia, Italy with his wife, the dancer and choreographer Phoebe Neville. He has been associated with Fluxus since 1961, was a resident composer and musician with the Judson Dance Theatre from 1962-1964 and later with the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. He co-founded with Malcolm Goldstein and James Tenney the Tone Roads Chamber Ensemble in 1963 (active until 1970), with Julie Winter Sounds Out of Silent Spaces in 1972 (active until 1979) and with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode, Gamelan Son of Lion in 1976 (still active). Works Corner became interested in calligraphy during military service in Korea in 1960-1961 and studied it with Ki-sung Kim; it is often incorporated into his scores. While there he became enamored with Korean traditional music, particularly the jeongak composition Sujecheon, which he describes as "the most beautiful piece of music in the history of the world."[1] Many of his scores are open-ended in that some elements are specified, but others are left partially or entirely to
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Satie Slowly
40 Years And One: Philip corner Plays The Piano
Fluxus Anthology
3 Pieces For Gamelan Ensemble
EXTREEMIZMS early & late
Chord / Gong! (with Carles Santos)
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Follow Fluxus
Gamelan Pictures at an Exhibition on Philip's Corner
Piano Work
Playing With the Elements
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Leo Ornstein: Complete Works For Cello And Piano
Metal Meditations