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Climax of the birthday celebration was a Los Angeles performance of his latest work, a ballet score titled Agon (to be given in New York next fall). Agon shows just how far he has gone with tonal-row composition. A 20-minute work, it is scored for "twelve dancers and twelve notes," calls for the largest orchestra since Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements (1945). The fast, heavily percussioned score is cast in patterns of enormous rhythmic complexity. In its sheer harmonic and rhythmic invention, its virility, its brilliance of orchestration, the work is among the most dazzling music...
...raised an eyebrow to the Manifesto or the troubadours, but even bootblacks joined the crowd listening with rhapsody to a rendition of Eliot's "Fragment of an Agon...
...Eliot records, made when the poet visited Cambridge last spring, include "Journey of Magi," "A Song for Simeon," and "Fragment of an Agon...
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Stolen bases-Chandler, Dean. Bases on balls-Dean, Richmond, Agon, Miner. Struck out-by Fitz 6, by Miner 7. Hit by pitched ball-Lynch, Burgess. Passed balls-Agon 2. Umpire-Murray...