Terry Riley in London

Next week Terry Riley is in London for a rare visit to give a couple of solo
concerts and a talk on his music. The concerts are on Tuesday 29th and
Wednesday 30th at 7:30 at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square (nearest tube Holborn)

Also on Saturday November 2nd at 2:30pm, Terry Riley is giving an
illustrated talk focussing on tuning systems in his work and on the role of
keyboard improvisations. This takes place at Steiner Theatre, Rudolph
Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 (nearest tube Baker Street).

Tickets are 11 pounds sterling (concessionary rate 9.50)

These events are part of the Planet Tree Music Festival booking info and if
you want to know more then have a look at the posting on
rec.music.classical.contemporary

ttfn
Brian Lee


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>Anyway, at that time I coined and proposed the term "allotonality"
>meaning "alternative tunings" (allos = other), which seemed more
>all-inclusive and captured the essential spirit of "xenharmonic"
>without the implication of oddness. I've never heard anybody else use
>it, though I was glad when I discovered the Alternate Tuning mailing
>list had come up with the same idea in naming themselves. Under that
>concept, 12-TET just becomes one valid alternative among an infinity of
>tonal possibilities.

Even though you invented the term to mean something and all, Id like to add
my 2 cents to a definition. There is Tonality, and from that - atonality,
polytonality and bitonality etc. These words with tonality in them
describe sorts of composition methods, tricks and hints etc. Allotonality
might be the strange methods enabled by alternative tuning systems.
rick

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