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Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And also… with women and men falling in love. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world.
Randolph Pitts holds Summa Cum Laude degrees in Social Psychology and Egyptology from the University of California Berkeley, and a Masters Degree in Motion Picture Production and Entertainment Law from UCLA. He has also done advanced research for the Department of Psychology at UCLA, concentrating on couples and relationships dynamics. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association, the organization of university professors of Philosophy. He is also an associate member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Randolph has been a top executive at several entertainment companies, including a ten year stint as Chief Executive Officer of the company that produced Leaving Las Vegas for which Nicolas Cage won the Academy Award as best actor. The first volume of his eagerly anticipated tetralogy of novels will be published during 2022. Pitts' spellbinding novels deal at an unrelenting fever pitch with eroticism, mysticism, terrorism and crime on a global scale. And also… with women and men falling in love. He has a lifelong interest in the relationship between philosophy, psychology and history. He is the founder and host of the Explore Ecstatic Sensuality podcast, the number one sex and sensuality podcast in the world.
![Roque Cordero, Dodecaconcerto, ii. Largo
Just as I am allowing Barbara Pentland to represent the large number of Canadian twelve-tone composers, I will allow Roque Cordero to represent the comparable number of twelve-tone composers from Central and South Amerca. Corderos early works were basically tonal and with a nationalist, Panamanian orientation. He began to compose twelve-tone music while studying with Krenek, and his twelve-tone music retained a Panamanian flavor. Joseph Straus, Twelve Tone Music in America
I had to integrated technical elements from Europe which I learned from Ernst Krenek, and before I studied Beethoven and Brahms and the others on my own but that technique has to be true for myself to express something that has to be completely personal. I am not necessarily quoting from Panamanian folk song because I have very seldom quoted directly from Panamanian folk song, but I do use rhythmic elements and some melodic design that can be found there without being any one in particular... But you can find that still in my latest compositions there is some element of Panamanian quotation that is based rhythmically on some Panamanian dances. The specific melody doesnt have anything to do with Panamanian folk song. And the point is: I will insist always to be recognized as a Panamanian composer. Roque Cordero
(A list of significant twelve-tone composers from Central and South America would include: Juan Carlos Paz (Argentina), (Jose Ardevol (Cuba), and Alberto Ginastera. Which sets this site on a major mission to research Paz and Ardevol. [We obviously know Ginastera well already, and have some fine works of his coming up. Stay tuned.] Roque Cordero, Dodecaconcerto, ii. Largo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1t8Gpjs_Nkc/mqdefault.jpg)


![Darius Milhaud, Septuor à cordes, op. 408 - part 1 of 2
In 1920, Darius Milhaud had already toyed with the idea of aleatory music. The Cocktail for Singer and Four Clarinets is just one experiment in controlled chance. In the second movement of the String Septet, each measure lasts one second. While one or several other instruments follow their normal course in playing the score, certain measures can be repeated for as many seconds (measures0 as is indicated by the composer. There resunts from this, in the words of Paul Colaer, the impression of a controlled musical kaleidoscope, of a rapidly discreet careering and of joyful near-misses. The String Septet was first performed in the Library of Congress in Washington on October 30th 1964.
Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 22 June 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once).
Born in Marseilles to a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre. He studied composition under Charles Widor and harmony and counterpoint with André Gedalge. He also studied privately with Vincent dIndy. As a young man he worked for a while in the diplomatic entourage of Paul Claudel, the eminent poet and dramatist, who was serving as French ambassador to Brazil.
n 1925, Milhaud married his cousin, Madeleine (1902 - 2008), an actress and reciter. In 1930 she bore him a son, the painter and sculptor Daniel Milhaud, to be the couples only child. [2]
The Milhauds left France in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1940 (his Jewish background made it impossible for him to return to his native country until after its Liberation). He secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet. In an extraordinary concert there in 1949, the Budapest Quartet performed the composers 14th String Quartet, followed by the Paganinis performance of his 15th; and then both ensembles played the two pieces together as an octet.[3] The following year, these same pieces were performed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, by the Paganini and Juilliard Quartet.[4]
Legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck arguably became Milhauds most famous student when Brubeck furthered his music studies at Mills College in the late 1940s (he named his eldest son Darius). However, his former students also include two of the seminal figures in Americas version of minimalism, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, several arrangers and composers associated with West Coast modern jazz and popular songwriter Burt Bacharach. Darius Milhaud, Septuor à cordes, op. 408 - part 1 of 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2XsHFUZuH1E/mqdefault.jpg)






![The Sopwith Camel Leave The Light On For Linda Great American Music Hall Halloween 2015
Wed formed around the same time as Big Brother & The Holding Company (pre-Janis)... in fact, we got together in the same room. It started out with me and Terry [Nandi Devam], who Id met at a hangout called the Big Little Bookstore on Polk Street in San Francisco, writing songs together. So the Camel was evolving at a time when there was very little rock in the city. In 1964, I shared a house on Page and Masonic with a thespian called John McIntyre (later manager of the Grateful Dead). I lived at one end of the attic and a girl called Laurie had the other end... and I should guess there were less than a dozen longhairs in the whole of San Francisco.
Then, one day, Chet Helms came to town; hed just got out of El Paso jail, where hed been held on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy! The only basis for his arrest had been the length of his hair. Its true!
Anyway, that house was a sort of nucleus in the developing San Francisco psychedelic scene. The first rock dances were in the basement of 1090 Page, which was organized by Chet. All the longhairs used to go there. It was an amazing experience for me, because I knew just about every single person in the place... and there were three or four hundred people! There was such a spirit at those gigs... I cant tell you!
Mind you, the San Francisco thing happened soon afterwards and eventually most of that core of 400 people moved out I can walk around now and not know a soul.
Artie Ripp, from Kama Sutra, who were putting out our records, came into the studio [in New York] the day that I had a temperature of 102. We were finishing up Postcard from Jamaica (the only tune we managed to write at the Albert Hotel in New York), and I was having to use three microphone stands: two to support me as I sang in the general direction of the third. I had bronchitis, actually. Anyway, Artie, who came in to see how his boys were doing, thought I should go to the Luxor Uptown Mens Club sauna baths to get myself in shape. So at two in the morning, we left Bell Studios and Artie Ripp just leapt out in front of some limousine, flagged it down, and gave the guy 20 bucks to take us to this sauna bath . . . .
(Interview with Peter Kraemer, Zizzag Magazine. Date unknown.
Peter Kraemer also used to tell a story about how he and his girlfriend visited Louis Armstrong, whom he very much admired, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
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