Like Father, Like Son?

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Classical guitarist Gyan Riley is a young artist with an artistically experimental famous parent (American composer Terry Riley), though the musical compositions of each differ dramatically. On Tuesday’s show, the younger Riley plays live in the studio and talks about his new CD, which features performances by his renowned dad and draws inspiration from such varied sources as traditional raga and the antics of his niece and nephew. Plus, Wall Street Journal classical music critic Greg Sandow attempts to demystify serialism, a method employed by such 20th-century composers as Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Among Gyan Riley’s commissions are for classical guitarists Jorge Caballero and Andrew Hull, both of which appear on Riley’s latest CD.
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Greg Sandow has written for NewMusicBox, the American Music Center’s online magazine, and he has also worked as a music criticism professor at Juilliard.
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Serialism is the composition of notes according to numerical patterns. Composer Arnold Schoenberg is considered the father of 12-note serialism.
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