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Yehudi Wyner’s Life in Music: a Composer with Piano Hands

3/17/2014

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Radio Open Source, February 25, 2014 — “Yehudi Wyner is an approachable guy in a forbidding field: contemporary ‘serious’ music. He gives us an opening here to ask where new sounds come from. In his case new music comes out of a sort of compost of the canon, from Bach to Bartok, and then everything else he’s heard over 80 years, from his father’s Yiddish art songs to boogie-woogie and gospel music. ‘Somehow it registers in the brain and has an effect,’ he says of the past. The other big thing you’ll be hearing from Yehudi Wyner is that his music has its very bodily beginning in his hands. It’s a physical, almost gymnastic test of what ten fingers can do, want to do, find themselves doing....”

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