A fascinating series of posts by Kyle Gann chronicling his work on the reconstruction of Dennis Johnson's epic 1959 piano work November. Johnson was involved with the emergence of minimalism, and it turns out that November anticipates some of the movement's key characteristics before several of the more famous "origin" works. Regardless, it's a beautiful piece of music. You'll read all about it in the posts below.
Kyle does great work like this all the time, and you can learn all about it on his Arts Journal blog. For me, he has opened up a whole world of minimalist and post-minimalist music that I didn't even know existed. As a result, I am only now just beginning to understand the context for some of my very favorite pieces of music, and discovering wonderful new ones in the process. Kudos!
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