Loraine James, Julius Eastman – Building Something Beautiful For Me

8RatingThe life and work of American composer Julius Eastman is both a tragedy and enigma. A Black gay classical composer active in the late 70’s, Eastman’s work was alarmingly ahead of its time though widely unknown today. Incomprehensible to his contemporaries, there’s a genius to Eastman which is only now being recognised for its audaciously queer innovations in minimalism, where he was amongst the first to utilise its processes in tandem with pop. Much of Eastman’s work is notoriously difficult […]

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