Henry Brant - The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 1

One maverick composer of the "old guard" American avant-garde, other than Elliott Carter, is still here and making music today -- Henry Brant. Like Carter, Brant was in the first generation of American composers to benefit from the direct influence of the music of Charles Ives. Since 1950 Brant has pursued a unique interest in expanding instrumental resources through stereophonically conceived "spatial" scoring. Whereas Carter is regarded as an institutional icon, throughout his career Brant has received very little "love" from institutions of any kind. Read More