Luening
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He studied piano with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Jack Beeson and composition with Otto Luening.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020
Despite that reputation, Luening described himself as “radical conservative,” and his music, whether it involved electronics or not, was always agreeably approachable and stylistically diverse.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2010
No doubt Mr. Beeson received encouragement to experiment further along those lines from Luening, who taught composition to second-year Columbia graduate students and was a pioneer in developing techniques that mix electronics and live performance.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2010
Last week, in Manhattan's fashionable Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky.
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Says Composer Otto Luening of the Columbia" Princeton Electronic Music Center: "It is fine to explore outer space in sound.
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