June 13, 2003 - The 1960s saw the rise of electronic music, especially with the invention a Buchla Box. "American Mavericks" is a thirteen episode series on American composers who broke with European tradition to innovate a pure sound. The series won a Peabody Award in 2003.
June 20, 2003 - So why would writing music this ravishing take a huge act of courage? In the 1950's while academics were evangelizing 12-tone music and extolling the virtues of rigorous dissonance, audiences fled the concert halls. But some true mavericks instead to marching lock-step into the future of atonality looked back and wrote ravishing, beautiful music despite the scorn of their colleagues. "American Mavericks" is a thirteen episode series on American composers who broke with European tradition to innovate a pure sound. The series won a Peabody Award in 2003.
June 27, 2003 - This week on "American Mavericks" rock n' roll. We'll look at how ideas from rock made their way into the concert hall, and how ideas from the avant-garde music scene influenced rock musicians. Let's rock! "As of this writing, God forgive me, I have far more pleasure in following the musical adventures of Simon and Garfunkel than I have in most of what is being written now by the whole community of avant-garde composers." Leonard Bernstein said that in 1966. "American Mavericks" is a thirteen episode series on American composers who broke with European tradition to innovate a pure sound. The series won a Peabody Award in 2003.