These tracks are musical snippets that I diligently rescued from an old reel to reel recorder Christopher had stashed away for years under the stage at the house of symphonies. They are compositions Christopher conducted way long ago. You could think of these as a rescue  mission. Christopher was most pleased. 

Brass Quartet

Clarinet Quartet

Elephant Walk

Entreaty

Heilengen Stadt Testement

Symphony In three Paintings

Symphony No. 1

Christopher Lantz UNPLUGGED reading from his own manuscript with aliveness and literally a vivid experience of acoustical physics.

Audio Book “The House of Symphonies” published now via Audible. Follow Link Here

Christopher Lantz Documentary Website for a deeper dive and exploration of this unique fellow.

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Avant-Garde Compositions

Christopher Lantz was one of the few remaining avant-garde composers who experimented in the early 70’s with re-presenting notational musical form which he coined: “art scores.” In their birth, these musical scores were not originally intended as “art.” The composer was instead seeking freedom from the constraints of traditional notation. 

Was it possible to escape the linear bindings? How could he communicate to a musician the virtual improvisational freedom that could be gleaned in the subtleties of space, colors, and forms?
Lantz eventually reached a point in his musical career when he no longer “felt nourished by the music.” He determined that Western music was dead.

Then he had a vision. He was to return to New Mexico, where he grew up, buy a piece of land and build an acoustical chamber. So he gave up his life of wealth and fame and moved to New Mexico and began building what would eventually become an extraordinary structure known as “The House of Symphonies” for which his most recent book is named.