Eastman Studies in Music: Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art (Hardcover)

Dane Rudhyar 1895-1985 was a unique figure in twentieth-century American culture: a composer thinker painter poet novelist and expert on astrology His thought and work transcended disciplinary boundaries integrating perspectives that were and often still are generally pursued in isolation from each other.

Rudhyars musical compositions such as the remarkable Three Paeans for piano were often described at the time as ultramodernand deeply philosophical Noted music critic Nicolas Slonimsky described Rudharys music as searching and challenging .

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the explanation of a puzzle of human existence.