Ben Johnston (composer)
Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. (born March 15, 1926 in Macon, Georgia) is a composer of contemporary music in just intonation: "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" (Bush 1997). He was called "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" in 1990 by American critic John Rockwell (Taylor 2002, 54).
Read more about Ben Johnston (composer): Johnston's Music, Biography, Recordings, Books
Famous quotes containing the word ben:
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)