Alan Sondheim

Alan Sondheim: Ritual-All-7-70

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 14, 2009

The musical piece on this second record by Alan Sondheim, Ritual-All-7-70, was created more than 40 years ago by Sondheim and a group of improvisers. It is not known whether there was an audience present during its performance--clearly one that was quite intensely joyful on that January day--or whether the audience was the musicians themselves, but it certainly was created with an audience in mind and spirit. Sondheim is correct in believing that music was never created or played without ...