condition (record/cover): VG+ (occasional light surface noise) / VG+ (light wear)
By 1982 Cope was Dickerson Professor at UC Santa Cruz and his textbook New Directions in Music was on every American conservatory shelf.
Side A is The Way, a piece for a single performer playing fifty-two instruments Cope built himself (drawn from a personal collection of over two hundred): a half-hour of struck metal, blown reeds, scraped wood and processed voice, performed solo. Side B is Concert (1979), a 27-minute piano-and-orchestra work performed by Mary Jane Cope, refusing concerto-form conventions: soloist and ensemble overlap rather than alternate, orchestral writing thins to spectral texture. The Opus One label, run by Max Schubel, served American composers the larger CRI-type labels were dropping by the early eighties.
