The first is Morton Feldman's "Intersection 1"
Everyone read off the entire score. There were different line for different instruments groups. There were three pitch markings: high, medium, and low. The beat remained constant, and the pitch markings lasted for a certain number of beats. This was the most thoughtful playing I think many of us had ever done.
The second is Wojciech Kilar's Krzesany.
Kilar is a Polish composer. This work had strains of Polish folk music running through it, but also many tone clusters. The piece ended with the strings playing a folk tune and the winds playing anything they desired, loudly.
Both of these pieces expanded my ideas of music, notation, and composition.
I think it is interesting that they are both smoking in these pictures...
