La Monte Young: The Man Who Brian Eno Called ‘the Daddy of Us All’
La Monte Young, the composer who quietly shaped much of contemporary Western music, reaches his last act.
THE COMPOSER LA MONTE YOUNG held his 84th birthday party on a drab, rainy Sunday afternoon last October inside the Church Street building where he has lived with his wife, the 80-year-old artist Marian Zazeela, since 1963. That people like Young and Zazeela can still be found in TriBeCa in 2020 is nothing short of remarkable.
Young is certainly the lone musician alive today who can claim to be no more than two degrees removed from three of the greatest icons of 20th-century modern music…
