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Yehudi Wyner

10th Anniversary Recording (LP)
Contemporary chamber music composed in the 1980's and performed by the Musical Elements ensemble, released on CRI in 1987.
Violin Works
Modern music-especially American music, with its tendency to invite various traditions to share the same compositional space-can be a generous art, an art which welcomes inclusivity. Here are works by John Cage (b 1912), Yehudi Wyner (b 1929), John Harbison (b 1938), and Stephen Hartke (b 1952)-four American composers from different generations with different sensibilities, representing very different approaches to writing for the violin. Yet however much these works represent various facets of …