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Composer and keyboardist of many colors Richard Teitelbaum, synths, samplers, piano (1939-2020) in three appearances at Roulette: a 1995 solo made for choreographer Alison Salzinger, a 1999 duo with violinist Mark Feldman, and in a 2011 trio with Elliott Sharp on bass clarinet and guitar and Andrew Cyrille on drums. Teitelbaum’s focus ranged from free improvisation to classical Japanese music to Jewish mysticism with influential projects beginning with Musica Elettronica Viva in the 1960s, with Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski, to his 1989 intermedia opera, Golem. Among many others then and since, Teitelbaum collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, Leroy Jenkins, Steve Lacy, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman.