Article on James Tenney in the LA Times

Nice article about James Tenney in the LA Times
<http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-et-tenney12dec12,0,7135153.story?c\
oll=cl-music-features> "Tenney, who died at 72 in August, is, on the
other hand, easily the most neglected great composer of our era. That
will change. And last weekend's festival of his music — the first
ever — at CalArts, where Tenney spent his last six years teaching,
was the beginning of the change... Yet a work like "Critical Band," in
which instruments microtonally move away from the standard A, on which
an orchestra tunes, the out-of-tuneness creates an acoustical beating
effect, from which comes an explosion of overtones, the thrilling likes
of which I don't think anyone ever heard before... His last score,
"Arbor Vitae," a string quartet composed this year as he lay dying of
lung cancer, was a final flowering. It was written for the
Montreal-based Quatour Bozzini, which closed the festival with the
premiere. The score is a 20-minute slowly falling and rising series of
microtonal chords. It begins with vastly complex harmonics that are half
heard, half felt, a sound from the beyond. As the quartet moves down
the scale, the music feels as though it almost touches ground before
evaporating into the aural ether, more aura than substance. Tenney's
time will come. It is coming.

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