Indeterminacy
Da Capo In Song (LP)
Vocal compositions performed by Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Constantine Cassolas and Paul Sperry with the Da Capo Chamber Players and released by New World Records in 1984.
Five Piano Pieces / Three Ostinati / Six Scenes And A Fantasy / Variations (LP)
Compositions from the 1940's and 1980's for piano solo or in duo with another instrument (cello, clarinet or flute) released on CRS in 1985.
Ancient Voices Of Children (LP)
Beautiful and evocative 1970 reverberating cycle of songs for soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified and toy piano and percussion by the highly original composer, released by Nonesuch in 1972.
Music For A Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (LP)
Beautiful and eerie 1975 chamber work by the highly original composer for two amplified pianos and percussions used with extended techniques , released by Nonesuch in 1975.
Suite / Persian Set (LP)
1970's re-issue of the 1957 LP on CRI with the pairing of two cross-cultural works composed on the 1950's by the two original and innovative composers, beautifully incorporating respectively Indonesian and Iranian music elements.
Mass / Missa Brevis (LP)
Two rather unique contemporary masses for mixed chorus (one plus instruments) composed in the 1950's and released on Epic's "Twentieth Century Composers Series" in 1957.
Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume One (LP)
First of four volumes released by 1750 Arch Records between 1977 and 1984 of the experimental and groundbreaking compositions for piano beyond the ability of a human pianist spanning almost 50 years. With insert
Die Musik von Conlon Nancarrow (book)
Very nice thick program for the performance of the music for player piano in Germany in 1982, with essay, notes and scores. German text.
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (LP)
1970's re-press with red labels of the 1967 CRI LP of the maverick composer's mid-1960's studies for his unique microtonal instruments performed by his own Gate 5 Ensemble, producing some of the strangest otherworldly avant-garde music ever.
Enclosure 1 (VHS)
1995 VHS presenting four historic films from the late 1950's / early 60's, the first installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
Enclosure 4: Harry Partch (VHS)
1997 VHS with the 1971 film version of Partch's major dramatic work Delusion of the Fury, the fourth installment of Innova's documentation of the seminal maverick avant-garde composer's work.
The Prairie (LP)
1943 choral work performed by the Gregg Smith Singers and the Brooklyn Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer himself, released by Turnabout in 1976.
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra / Concerto For Clarinet And String Orchestra (LP)
1972 split LP on Crystal Records with the pairing of two concertos composed respectively in 1948 and 1969 performed by the Crystal Chamber Orchestra led by Akira Endo.
Symphony No. 3 / The Song Of Songs (LP)
1972 split LP on CRI with the pairing of two modernist/neoclassical orchestral works composed in the 1940's.
A Parable Of Death / Intermezzo / Kentuckiana (LP)
1954 LP on Columbia with Foss' cantata for tenor, narrator, chorus and orchestra plus two other orchestral works composed in the 1940/50's.
Music Of Barber, Copland, Cowell, Del Tredici, Foss, Griffes (LP)
1985 LP on Nonesuch with several 20th Century American compostions for flute and piano performed by Carol Wincenc accompanied by composers Lukas Foss and David Del Tredici, and by Samuel Sanders.
Triple Concerto (LP)
1971 composition fusing classical structure with jazz improvisation by Third Stream composer, released in 1978 by Flying Fish.
Jonah And The Whale (LP)
1973 large-scale oratorio released on unidentified label in 1982.
Symphony Of Overtures / The Seventh Trumpet / Concerto For Solo Percussionist (LP)
Three great 1960's experimental works, two for orchestra with very unusual sounds and one for solo percussionist, released on Turnabout's "The Contemporary Composer in the USA" in 1973.
Bells Of Earth (LP)
Piano music by the Canadian composer self-released on Apparition Records in 1982.