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Terry Riley
A pioneer of the American minimalist movement, composer and
multi-instrumentalist Terry Riley was born in Colfax, California, on June 24,
1935. Trained on piano and saxophone, he studied at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music and then at the University of California at Berkeley,
where he became friends with La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick
and Steve Reich. He composed for the stage and worked on repetitive sequences
with magnetic tapes. In 1964, after a stay in Paris, he took part in the Theatre
of Eternal Music experiments created by Young, alongside John C...
