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Peter Zummo

Peter Zummo (born 1948) is an American composer and musician. He has been described as "an important exponent of the American contemporary classical tradition." Meanwhile, he has been quoted as describing his own work as "minimalism and a whole lot more."

Since 1967, Zummo's compositions exploring the rock, jazz, new- and electronic-music, disco, punk, and world-music idioms have been presented in venues including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Center, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, among many others in New York City, as well as in numerous additional spaces worldwide. The website of the music magazine Pitchfork called Zummo’s music “the sound of sublimity…that sends shivers down the nervous system,” and in an interview with The Quietus, Scottish deejay JD Twitch (Keith McIvor) characterized Zummo’s work as “sheer bliss.”

Composing and performing career

Writing in the British culture blog "The Ransom Note," Tim Wilson commented that some of Zummo’s "most familiar" music was created with cellist Arthur Russell. Zummo played on most of Russell’s recordings and produced several of them. Their collaborations in multiple musical styles included Russell’s disco single, “Kiss Me Again.” In it, according to a review in The New Yorker, “phrases emerge and wrap around each other: Peter Zummo’s gorgeous trombone motif, Russell’s pizzicato cello theme, and a growing drone of loud, dissonant guitars…When the smoke clears, genre is just a memory.” In 2014, Zummo and longtime collaborators, bass player Ernie Brooks and percussionist Bill Ruyle, recorded Russell’s My Love Is Crying with New Zealand musician and composer Liam Finn.

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Westmoreland County campus clippings: UPG's Melanie Mienke sets program strikeout record

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 22 Apr 2024

Junior softball pitcher Melanie Mienke (Plum) etched her name into the Pitt-Greensburg record book ... Softball ... IUP ... Freshman Emmalea Zummo (Jeannette) teamed with Emily Peters at second doubles and posted an 8-2 win as the Tomcats defeated La Roche, 8-1.

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New York library won't let man with autism use children's room. His family called the restriction 'callous'

Star Gazette 07 Mar 2024

Peter Zummo, a retired lawyer in Erie County and a parent of a 25-year-old with autism, said the legal and practical questions are not necessarily the same.

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NY library won't let man with autism use children's room; family protests 'callous' move

Poughkeepsie Journal 07 Mar 2024

Peter Zummo, a retired lawyer in Erie County and a parent of a 25-year-old with autism, said the legal and practical questions are not necessarily the same.

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Melody Without A Form: An Interview with Arthur Russell & Peter Gordon

The Quietus 02 Mar 2024

WENTZ Welcome Peter and Arthur to Afternoon Music ... PETER GORDON Yes ... PETER GORDON Fucking Masterworks ... I mean, Arthur might use the same group of musicians and call it the Arthur Russell Band, or Peter Zummo might use a similar configuration.

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New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

The Quietus 23 May 2023

‘Whatever Beauty’ distinctly resembles undisco-mode Arthur Russell, and features the trombone of longterm Russell associate Peter Zummo; unclear if they fashioned it with him in mind or if his guiding ...

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Rewire Reveals Full Music Lineup For 2023 Edition

The Quietus 01 Feb 2023

There will also be some world premiere performances at the festival, with Tim Hecker combining with multidisciplinary artist Vincent de Belleval; Peter Zummo linking up with Japanese experimental duo ...

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Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a ...

The Guardian 08 Nov 2022

Adding to the pressure, his partner is expecting their second child imminently ... Touring with Kano, he anchors a vast horn and string section; alongside trombonist Peter Zummo, his syncopated funk bolsters teetering melodies ... ....

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Tom Skinner on the Smile, Sons of Kemet and going solo: ‘It gives me a blank slate to explore’

The Observer 08 Nov 2022

It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner ... Touring with Kano, he anchors a vast horn and string section; alongside trombonist Peter Zummo, his syncopated funk bolsters teetering melodies ... Photograph. Douglas Mason/Getty Images ... Photograph.

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Latest News for: peter zummo

Westmoreland County campus clippings: UPG's Melanie Mienke sets program strikeout record

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