Street Scene

Street Scene

Using the same studio that I used for Jack in January, this composition also grew out of Jack’s descriptions of Sunday afternoons at the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other poets recited their poems to the accompaniment of jazz. Pursuing my newly-discovered interest in combining jazz, voice, and other sounds, and including a soloist, I composed Street Scene in 1967.

Street Scene is a setting of The Long Street, a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, spoken by Francoise Cabaret, with sounds composed using our Moog synthesizer, sounds recorded with tape recorders, and sounds mixed with a keyboard-controlled mixer. Patricia Grignet Nott performs English horn in this performance on March 25, 1969, in Music In Our Time, at the Kaufman Concert Hall, 92nd Street Y, in New York. The image was created by William A. Clark in 1967 specifically to be shown at performances of this composition.

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For other compositions, click on a title

Blues Mix 1966
Albany Music 3 1966
Jack in January 1967
Street Scene 1967

Drift 1970
Ideas of Movement at Bolton Landing 1971
Echoes 1972

From The 14th On 1973

Flowers 1975
Settings for Spirituals 1977

Solo 1978
Scenes from Stevens 1979
Follow Me Softly 1984

After Some Songs 1995
Spring Drum with Pierre’s Words 1997

Many Times … 2001
One World 1 2006
Micro Fictions 2009
Different Cities 2013