When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
- Posted on August 26, 2025
- By The New Yorker
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When the Man Tried to Sell Minimalism to the Counterculture
Columbia Records saw Terry Riley’s “In C,” now rereleased for his ninetieth birthday, as a perfect anthem for the psychedelic Zeitgeist, but the mainstream couldn’t contain the composer’s utopian energies for long.
