Julius Eastman -- I met him "when"
This Print of the Month (or thereabouts) is a composite portrait of composer Julius Eastman taken in 1974 when he was teaching at the State University of NY in Buffalo (SUNYAB). SUNYAB was a hotbed of what was then called the "new music" and Eastman was one of the movers and shakers in this rather rarified community. The music superimposed over his face was titled "Trumpet" and it was performed by six (as I recall) like instruments but renamed as needed -- if performed by ob

