![]() ![]() Mary Jane Leach is a composer and freelance writer, currently writing music and theatre criticism for the Albany Times-Union. Often creating long pieces written for a strict number of instruments, Eastman was a radical composer who has been likened to iconoclasts such as John Cage. In this programme, composer / pianist Dante Boon presents works by John Cage, Julius Eastman, the young British composer Sophie Stone, as well as his own. This Life of Sounds: Evenings for New Music inBuffalo received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence. The following night stages excerpts from John Cages Song Books (1970), as well as Eastmans Evil Nigger (1979) and Buddha, Johnson-Small & Hemsleys Native. In Tomorrow is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies (pp. The book presents an authentic portrait of a notable American artist thatis compelling reading for the general reader as well as scholars interested in twentieth-century American music, American studies, gay rights, and civil rights. John Cage, Julius Eastman, and the homosexual ego. Ensemble in which ensemble member Julius Eastman brought out a young, blond man and a young black woman. In addition to analyses of Eastman's music, the essays in Gay Guerrilla provide background on his remarkable life history and the era's social landscape. What enraged Cage was a performance of some pieces from his Song Books by the S.E.M. ![]() These episodes are examples of Eastman's persistence in pushing the limits of the acceptable in the highly charged arenas of sexual and civil rights. Eastman's provocative titles, including Gay Guerrilla, Evil Nigger, Crazy Nigger, and others, assault us with his obsessions.Įastman tested limits with his political aggressiveness, as reflected in legendary scandals like his June 1975 performance of John Cage's Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections, and the uproar over his titles at Northwestern University. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates with musicians, scholars, and audiences today. His rarely performed and challenging music is an impressive example of the international and cross-genre movement of Minimalism. A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.Ĭomposer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. MINIMAL MUSIC Curated by Eva Huttenlauch und Matthias Mhling Julius Eastman (19401990) was a representative of Minimal Music.
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