Riley’s pioneering piece, which premiered 60 years ago, leaves many decisions up to the performers. It helped launch the movement known as minimalism, but In C itself has also survived and changed.
But Songs of a Lost World has no gorgeously silly love songs like “The Lovecats”; no blood-pumping pop rushes like “Just Like Heaven”; no barrelling psychedelic jaunts like “The Caterpillar,” and no ...