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Terry Jennings (19 July 1940 – 11 December 1981) was an American minimalist composer and performer.


Early life in California


Terry Jennings was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, in 1940. Coming from a background in jazz, he played piano, clarinet, and saxophones. He played jazz with La Monte Young in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, and later began to compose in the manner of Young's early sustained-tone style.[1] He also studied with Robert Erickson at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts.


New York City


Jennings was active as both composer and performer in New York starting in 1960, where he worked with the James Waring Dance Company and with La Monte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music. His early works are quiet, simple, and restrained. Two of his compositions from 1960, Piano Piece and String Quartet were published in An Anthology of Chance Operations, edited by Young.[2] This publication led to the performance of both pieces in England by Cornelius Cardew and others.[1] He gave musical performances in the early 1960s at venues such as The Living Theatre, the ONCE Festival of New Music, and at Yoko Ono's Chambers Street loft and performed on saxophone with La Monte Young (Young was Jennings' closest associate and teacher) and with John Cale and Charlotte Moorman.

Jennings' early music is sparse and nearly motionless. Piece for Cello and Saxophone is a reflection on a handful of chords and melodic patterns modulating through a chorale-like progression in very slow motion.[3] One of his early pieces, Piano, is included in manuscript in the book Notations by John Cage.[4][page needed] He strongly influenced American composers Harold Budd and Peter Garland, as well as British composer Howard Skempton. In the 1970s, he turned to a neo-romantic style.[1]

Jennings died in San Pablo, California in 1981.


References


  1. Garland, Peter; Young, La Monte (2001). "Jennings, Terry". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780195170672.
  2. Young, La Monte (ed.). 1963. An Anthology of Chance Operations. Bronx, N.Y.: La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low. Second edition: New York City: H. Friedrich, 1970.
  3. "The Transcendence of Terry Jennings". 5 July 2022.
  4. Cage, John. 1969. Notations. New York and West Glover VT: Something Else Press. ISBN 0-87110-000-2.


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Terry Jennings (* 19. Juli 1940 in Eagle Rock (Los Angeles); † 11. Dezember 1981 in San Pablo (Kalifornien)) war ein amerikanischer Komponist und Interpret der Minimal Music (Sopransaxophon, Klarinette). Er war einer der Pioniere dieser Musikrichtung; seine bekanntesten Werke sind Winter Trees und Winter Sun (1975).
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