AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                                         118 a-d

Daniel Lentz

with Vincent Plush

Los Angeles, California

May 4, 1983

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Tape a                                                                                                                                 pp. 1‑25

Childhood in Pennsylvania--trumpet lessons--jazz--piano lessons--forms own jazz band in seventh grade--Dixieland band in high school--training in theory at St. Vincent's College--music for theater--Master's at Ohio University--Dialectics--Sidney Hodkinson--Stockhausen--Tanglewood--Roger Sessions--Love Song--Brandeis electronic music studio--Berio--teaching theory--Fulbright grant for Stockholm--disillusionment with electronic music--musical time, echoes--California Time Machine--Air Mail Spatial Delivery--teaching at Santa Barbara.

Tape b                                                                                                                               pp. 25‑47

All‑Cal Arts Festival--ONCE Group--Alvin Lucier--California Time Machine--machine gun incident in Oakland--political pieces--Viet Name--Anti Bass Music (ABM)--Sonoral Senescence--performance art--award from Berkeley--tours in Europe--change in style, 1971--90‑year‑old patron at Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara--Canon and Feudalism--I, A Double Concerto--The King Speech Song--You Can't See the Forest--The Kissing Song.

Tape c                                                                                                                                pp. 47‑69

Semester at Antioch College--trip to Germany--San Andreas Fault--Missa Umbrarum--The North American Eclipse--native American music--Sun Tropes--Lentz group--amplified music--Wolf Is Dead--LA music scene--music Lentz admires--Reich, Glass, Adams.

Tape d                                                                                                                               pp. 69‑83

Touring Europe--Point Conceptions--plans for group--financial problems--future of LA music--public relations--lack of national media on West Coast--difference between New York and West Coast music--European reception--bringing music back to the people.