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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen, Luciano Berio, Michael Nyman, John Zorn, Arvo Part, La Monte Young, Bradley Joseph, Django Bates, Matteo Sommacal, Juan Maria Solare, William Susman, Egberto Gismonti, Meredith Monk, Sylvia Constantinidis, Merrill Leroy Ellis, Frans Geysen, Rhys Chatham, Hans-Jurgen von Bose, Wim Mertens, Henry Flynt, Gunther Schuller, Ulrich Krieger, Kyle Bobby Dunn, Anomie Belle, Joe Jones, Charlemagne Palestine, John McGuire, Craig First, Carlos Stella, Claudio Maldonado, Michael Harrison, Jacob Isaacson, Catherine Christer Hennix, Carlo Forlivesi, Andrew Poppy, Sylvie Courvoisier, Scott Johnson, Obsil, Alexandre Danilevsky, Laszlo Vidovszky, Ezequiel Vinao, Ken Namba, Jocelyn Morlock, Helen Chadwick. Excerpt: John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer. He's had experience with a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore punk, classical, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, and improvised music. Zorn brings these styles to his work, which he refers to with the label avant-garde/experimental. Zorn has stated that, "All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there." Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City, led the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada and composed 'Masada Songbooks' (written concert music for classical ensembles), and has produced music for film and documentary. Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid 1970s and ...
