RUDHYAR, Dane

A Frenchman largely self-taught in music, he came to America in 1916 and soon afterwards changed his surname to Rudhyar, drawing upon a Sanskrit root conveying at once a sense of dynamic action and the color red. After premiering his Poèms ironiques and Vision végétale at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1917, he moved first to Canada and then to California, where he spent the 1920s as an active emerging composer of numerous pieces for orchestra, chamber groups,...