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Modern Additions by Jose Luis Sert on the Guthrie Estate, Locust Valley, Long Island Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 23, 2026

This playlist treats the book as an architectural study: José Luis Sert’s modern additions meet the older Guthrie Estate and the landscape of Long Island. The instrumental half moves between Spanish guitar, modernist composition, and spacious minimalism; the vocal half turns to songs about home, place, change, and the feeling of inhabiting a landscape. No characters or plot are assumed beyond what the title supports.

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Track List

20 songs

Rain Tree Sketch II

Toru Takemitsu · Water

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Palais de Mari

Morton Feldman · Encounter

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Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast

Steve Reich · Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint

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Short Ride in a Fast Machine

John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in A Fast Machine

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El Amor Brujo: Danza ritual del fuego

Manuel de Falla · De Falla: Noches en los jardines de España & El sombrero de tres picos

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Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Francisco Tárrega · Recuerdos de la Alhambra

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Perpetuum Mobile

Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)

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A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air

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Sunflower River Blues

John Fahey · Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes

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Fantasía para un Gentilhombre: I. Villano y Ricercare

Joaquín Rodrigo · The Great Guitar Concertos

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Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling

John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops

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Música callada I: No. 1, Angelico

Federico Mompou · Mompou: Música callada

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The Unanswered Question

Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question

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So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

Simon & Garfunkel · Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell · Clouds

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Here Comes The Sun - Remastered 2009

The Beatles · Abbey Road (Remastered 2009)

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This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Talking Heads · Speaking in Tongues

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Sunday Morning

The Velvet Underground · The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary

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And It Stoned Me

Van Morrison · The Essential Van Morrison

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From The Morning

Nick Drake · Pink Moon

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