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Bang on a Can and New Music with Will Robin

Sound Expertise

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The Anti-Populist Attitude of Charles Wernan

Langordin, Wolf and Wernan all had encounters with the dominant force in the academy of serial composition. All three rejected the idea that they should have a path in the academy as their kind of main identity as a composer. Langordin: "Serialism was this kind of like tyrannical thing that every composer had to write atonal music in the 1960s or 50s"

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