Music From Other Minds

Program 756: La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano

KALW Broadcast Date: October 1, 2023 | Host: Ed Herrmann

La Monte Young’s reputation is probably better known than his music. His early explorations in drone music, his Fluxus text scores, and his pioneering minimalist performances established him as a prominent figure in the New York avant-garde of the 1960s. He is also a music theorist and has written extensively about his ideas of just intonation. But little of his music has been recorded, and what has tends to be out of print and difficult to find. La Monte Young turns 88 in October, and to mark the occasion Ed Herrmann present excerpts from Young’s six hour magnum opus, The Well-Tuned Piano.

Program Audio

30-Second Spot