Dane Rudhyar Three Melodies (1918, 1955)

A performance of Dane Rudhyar s Three Melodies for Flute, with piano, cello accompaniment a 1955 composition based on an earlier 1918 sketch. This was recorded on April 22, 1977 at the first concert of that year s Palo Alto Music Festival. Born in France in 1895, Rudhyar moved to the United States in 1916, where he soon became known as a ultramodern composer whose ideas about dissonant harmony influenced such composers as Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell and Carl Ruggles. Rudhyar was also a painter, philosopher, and author of many books about astrology, psychology, and the cyclical nature of civilization. Elizabeth Coronata, flute Gay Wuthman, cello Karen Jacobs, piano Image: An untitled, undated drawing by Rudhyar