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Over the Cracker Barrel. Ruggles has had to struggle harder than any other composer for answers to 20th century musical questions. Nobody else's methods-not Stravinsky's, Bartok's, Webern's or Berg's-would suffice. And so, what he worked out for himself was a tone-clustered, highly contrapuntal and dissonant style. By his self-imposed rules, no note in a melodic line could be repeated until eight or so others had intervened. His work has an atonal quality that often sounds like Schoenberg's middle-period serialism. Yet Ruggles...
WILLIAM D. BERG...
...recent visitor described Rich berg's today as a "rusty-spoon." Customers still take "epicurean pleasures" by ordering seven hamburgers for $1 while waiting for their cars to be greased and oiled outside. The sleazy dining room is decorated with a rack of used shotguns and rifles, draped with a six-foot belt of machine-gun blanks. The counter area is brightened with stacks of knives, machetes, auto parts and a shelf of used pistols...
HOLLAND FESTIVAL (June 15-July 9) takes place in four Dutch cities. Its imaginative programming includes four concerts devoted entirely to works of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern, played by The Hague Residentie Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in Scheveningen; three Debussy cycles in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. More conventional fare by the Concertgebouw Orchestra; dance and opera (from Rameau's Platée to Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron) is also offered...
MUNICH (June 22 to Aug. 10) is one continuous Fest, starting with Karl Richter's Bach Festival (June 22-30) through chamber music at Nymphenburg Palace (July 6-25) to the Bayerische Staatsoper's ambitious selection of operas ranging from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Berg's Lulu, via a sprinkling of operas by Munich's own Richard Strauss (July...