In graduate school at California State University, Northridge, he got heavy into the atonal music of Berg and Webern and Schoenberg and others. The pinnacle of his work in the avant-garde was “Polyphemus,” a fourteen-and-a-half minute piece of music inspired by The Odyssey and performed once in 1973 by the California State University, Northridge Symphony Orchestra. At one point, Davison played the recording for me. It sounded like a theater full of musicians doing battle. There was nothing remotely New Age-y about it.
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