Terry Riley: Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
Steven R Rosen, Harp, 1 October 2005
TO CELEBRATE the 70th birthday of California-born minimalist composer Terry Riley, the UCLA Live series put together a program even stranger than Riley's landmark In C must have sounded with its droning, mantra-like repetition back in 1964.
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