White, Ruth
7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards And Pinions
A completely electronic score (c. 1968) reflecting White's impressions of the occult. Writing of '7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards,' Donal Henahan commended White in The New York Times for her "musical inventiveness and electronic sophistication." From Paul Eberle in the Los Angeles Free Press: "Miss White has explored electronics to find a new instrumentation of voices for her compositions, and has conceived it as an extension of the music of the past, rather than a break from it, or a renunciation." 'Pinions' was commissioned by dance choreographer Eugene Loring for the University of California. After the 1968 premiere, the Los Angeles Times commented: "...a really exciting, organically musical, electronic score by Ruth White. Not only the soloists but all the participants seemed to draw heat from this score..."