Tenney: Spectrum Pieces – review

Barton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age of 72, remains virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic. Tenney's teachers included John Cage, Edgard Varèse and Harry Partch, and in the late 1960s he performed with both Steve Reich and Philip Glass, yet his own music seems distinctly differ...

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