Having Never Written A Note For Percussion

James Tenney: Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
In the late ‘60s, James Tenney began writing what he called Postal Pieces, scores written on postcards which he sent to fellow composers and performers. The final postal piece was for percussionist John Bergamo titled Having Never Written a Note for Percussion. The score is simply a whole note with fermata with the instructions (very long) and a crescendo and decrescendo. Other works in the collection include Swell Piece, a text score for any instruments, Beast, written on graph paper for double bass, and A Rose is a Rose is a Round, a vocal piece written in two concentric circular staves.
2024
​Faculty Recital​
​Water Music
Thursday, December 5th - 6:30PM
Wells-Rapp Center for Mallet Percussion Research
Kutztown University