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Composed by: Peter Yates (b.1953)
About the Composer
Peter Yates is a composer and a guitarist. His work with the Elgart-Yates Guitar Duo, formed in 1975, includes recordings, duo-compositions, performances in the U.S., sixteen tours of Europe, over one hundred premieres, and the publication of a book on prepared guitar. He also builds and plays versions of the arpeggione, a bowed guitar invented in 1823 and rarely seen since. His compositions include operas about the Watts Towers, and about a ghost town in the Eastern Sierra. His works have been performed on Italian national radio (RAI), microfest, The Living Arts Festival, NOW Festival, Festival of American Music, throughout Europe and across the United States. He is on the faculties of music at UCLA and at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.