BRUCE, Neely

He was one of seven harpsichordists in the original performance of John Cage's HPSCHD and the sole pianist on William Duckworth 's The Time Curved Preludes. He has also composed dozens of songs (some of them to texts of the more experimental American poets), a four-act opera about the American Revolution, and an eccentrically eclectic oratorio, The Plague (1983), which incorporates a variety of familiar musical styles, both high and low, classical and contemporary, in a way that might...