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John Zorn's Carny

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Oct 6, 201213:11Music

Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Zorn’s Carny, a work for solo piano from 1989. The piece assembles a wide range of musical quotations and genres, juxtaposing Stockhausen and...

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John Zorn's Carny is an episode from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC. Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Zorn’s Carny, a work for solo piano from 1989. The piece assembles a wide range of m...

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Published Oct 6, 2012, 13:11 long, audio available.

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Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Zorn’s Carny, a work for solo piano from 1989. The piece assembles a wide range of musical quotations and genres, juxtaposing Stockhausen and Bartok with cartoon music and boogie woogie. Author and journalist Rob Young provides some background to the work and to Zorn himself, a highly regarded improviser and producer as well as composer.

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Published Oct 6, 2012 and 13:11 long