La Monte Young as an Anti-Ut [Utonal/Otonal/Atonal]

I recently had a great time going through my old issues of 1/1 again,
and I must say, thanks to so many of you on this amazing tuning list, I
was able to understand maybe 75% of it. It used to be a little on the
opaque side... Thanks, everybody for my "Internet Education."

Among some of the most intriguing issues were some from 1989 which had
interviews with La Monte Young. I have been a Young fan ever since I
sang ragas with him after one of Johnny Reinhard's Amazing American
Festivals of Microtonal Music. Well, more technically, La Monte Young
sang the raga, and I did the drone...

In any case, I was surprised and intrigued by the statements that La
Monte Young was not at all interested in the Utonal series, but was a
dedicated OTonalist...

In addition, it was mentioned that Young avoided 5-limit sonorities...
the "major" third. Actually, this places him rather in a "traditional
modernist" camp, with other people who clearly were tired of triadic
music, Aaron Copland among them.

Copland, of course, was a "Trine" man... among the other "Trine-i-ties."
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Joseph Pehrson