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Carl Ruggles

Each day I go out and make the universe anew-all over !

About Me

I'm one of America's least known and most under rated composers. A lot of people were out there blowin' their horns while I was quietly working away on one of the 10 or so pieces that I'm now known for. All my works fit on to a 2 record set, so I won't take up your valuable shelf space with a lot of Horse Manure ! Brevity ! Now there's a thing...A delight ! There's too much Damn noise these days, and not enough GOOD noise if you catch my drift... There's beauty in a thing if it's a sharp shock ! It'll grown hair on your palms if it's the truth, by God ! There's few recordings available out there of my works, so it may be a treasure hunt for ye...The gold mine is a recording of my complete works on a 2 record set from Columbia with Michael Tilson Thomas and the Buffalo Phiharmonic with Guest Artists. Damnned Fine Job he did of it too ! CR March 11 1876-October 24 1976 RIP

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My Interests

Composition, Smoking, Swearing, Walking among the Lilacs in the Mountains, The dew on my boots. Treading Upon The Sun !

I'd like to meet:

Iconoclasts, like my humble self ! Someone to share a decent cigar with.

Music:

Make it Truthful, Damnit ! Best make sure it means something also.

Movies:

No time for the picture-show.

Television:

No time for that either, Damnit !

Books:

Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson, Keats, Autobiography of US Grant, William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, and that fellow Bukowski...Damnned Fine Work All of 'em !

Heroes:

As above, and also my good friends Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese,Thomas Hart Benton, and of course, Charles and Ruth Seeger.