‘He would get high before teaching’: how Mills College gave birth to music’s boldest minds - The Guardian

Fuelled by psychedelic counterculture, the Californian university has nurtured Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson and more – and caused riots at its concerts. But can it survive?

In the late 1960s, Morton Subotnicks groundbreaking electronic work Silver Apples of the Moon was both a bestselling classical record and an underground nightclub sensation, since acknowledged as an … [+7286 chars]

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