Over the course of the 50+ years of his musical career, the multiple Guggenheim recipient and former student of Aaron Copeland has composed for orchestra, choral and chamber groups and electroacoustic ensembles. While much of his work remains firmly rooted in the Classical/Romantic tradition, Korte’s music incorporates elements of Spanish folk, serialism, and the conceptualism of the mid 20th Century Avant-garde. Many of his compositions involve tape and electronic manipulation that, as he writes on his website, blur “the distinctions between sounds which have been acoustically (“naturally”) created by a musical instrument and those that have been electronically manufactured.” Some of his most recent work involves working with manipulated recordings of natural sounds to make music that still adheres to “traditional” concepts of rhythm and musical development.