Mr. MAYNER: Conlon Nancarrow was writing the early version of a mash-up -combining different melodies and different time signatures. He knew this was too hard for just about anyone to play so he ...

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At the core of the weekend was a nine-concert cycle of the complete studies for player piano. As far as anyone knew, it was the first time all 51 studies had been performed in public in one go. And ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Avant garde rock star Frank Zappa said his music sounded like "bionic ragtime", the U.S. government considered him an unwelcome communist and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's ...

As an English major, Web editor, and gearhead, my favorite literary metaphor of the 20th century comes from William Gaddis’s two essays on the player piano — Stop Player. Joke #4 and “Agape Agape: The ...

In 1989, after decades of isolation creating intricate rhythmic studies for player piano, the great American composer Conlon Nancarrow wrote a set of three pieces for pianist Ursula Oppens that ...

TEXARKANA — Texarkana’s Regional Music Heritage Center will keep on scrolling with the acquisition of 27 piano rolls’ worth of native son and composer Conlon Nancarrow’s work. After they’re made by ...

Conlon Nancarrow won a MacArthur Genius Grant for his amazing compositions for the Player Piano - the only instrument that could perform his rhythmically astonishing music back in the 1940s when he ...

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