LOS ANGELES TIMES: He died homeless and forgotten. Now gay Black composer Julius Eastman finally gets his due
LOS ANGELES TIMES: He died homeless and forgotten. Now gay Black composer Julius Eastman finally gets his due
BY MARK SWED
“The Los Angeles new music collective Wild Up released a sensational recording Friday on the New Amsterdam label of Eastman’s seriously challenging, incessantly repetitious 1974 ’Femenine.’ The majestic effusiveness of this performance is such that it instantly changes the landscape, revealing new possibilities for a far and wide acceptance of Eastman’s music.”