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Gologne (June 10-19). The most ambitious of contemporary music festivals offers 16 world premieres by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Eimert, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Fortner, Karl Blomdahl and Karl-heinz Stockhausen, whose Contest Between Electronic Sound and Instruments is expected to be the festival's most impressive explosion of sound...
...accused of fouling the radiation apparatus that powered the electronic brain. As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music. Occasion: the premiere of Swedish Composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl's Aniara, widely hailed as the first operatic excursion into the world of outer space...
Mankind's Prayer. To this Buck Rogers apocalypse, Composer Blomdahl fitted an atonal score marked by vocal passages of labyrinthine difficulty and orchestration of such transparent delicacy that it sometimes seemed like chamber music. Frequently the chorus was used unaccompanied as a tautly dramatic background to the soloists' soaring vocal lines, and in some sequences Blomdahl abandoned the orchestra altogether in favor of taped electronic effects. One scene unfolds against a Jabberwockian mixture that includes the speaking voices of Eisenhower. Khrushchev, Hitler, Mussolini and the defendants at the Nürnberg trials...
...first-night audience gave Composer Blomdahl and performers a 15-minute ovation, and Stockholm's critics lathered their reviews with praise. Composer Blomdahl, 43, would own to only one temporary misgiving about his first popular success: during the two years he spent writing it, he feared that before it was finished its interspatial theme would already have become...
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