Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (arr. Richard Jones)

Composer
Date of composition
1969, arr. 2025
Duration
23 Minutes
Instrumentation
String quartet

Events for this work

Saturday
8
February 2025

Kings Place: Terry Riley

Terry Riley’s contribution to the string quartet canon is celebrated with a performance of his seminal work, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and a premiere of a new arrangement of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (the B-side of Riley’s much-loved 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air). Alongside this, their interpretation of 70 Chords by Terry by one of Riley’s fellow travellers, Pauline Oliveros, whose approach to listening and improvisation revealed radical new ways of communal music-making.