OTTO LUENING - LETTER - SIGNED - 1970 - ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSER - BMI

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OTTO LUENING
Vintage, typed letter, 1 page, 7 1/4" x 10 1/2", November 4, 1970 on his Otto Luening
letterhead, 460 Riverside Drive, New York , N.Y. 10027
to BMI Executive Carl Haverlin, Northridge, California
Signed: "Otto"
Condition: light creases
Otto Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, an early pioneer of
tape music and electronic music. His conducting premieres included Virgil Thomson's
The Mother of Us All
, Gian Carlo Menotti's
The Medium
, and his own
Evangeline
. An
October 28, 1952 concert with Vladimir Ussachevsky at The Museum of Modern Art in
New York City introduced
Fantasy in Space
, flute recordings manipulated on magnetic
tape. In 1958 he was co-founder, along with Ussachevsky, of the Columbia-Princeton
Electronic Music Center.
Film  credits include the 1994 Steven M. Martin documentary: "Theremin: an Electronic Odyssey."
Born: 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died: 1996, New York City, New York.
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