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...example of series music Krenek played a tape of his "Quaestio Temporis," a short piece for chamber orchestra. "It sounds completely random," he said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional sense, he explained; rather, there are six different speed zones which are determined by a Fibonacci series, in which each element is the sum of the two proceeding...
Though White Voices sounds titillating in summary, its lustfulness, weakened by fast and frequent fadeouts, is mostly suggestiveness. The rest of the humor is fetid stuff, performed with more energy than art, ranging from gags about chamber pots to winking asides about transvestitism as a career. Voices may excite curiosity among gentlemen with a taste for camp. Jones boys will find better things...
...bigger question was what effect the quake would have on Frei's urgently needed reform program in the areas of land, housing, school and industrial development. In new elections last month, Frei's Christian Democrats won an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and planned a full-scale assault on Chile's ills. They still plan to proceed despite the added burden of digging out from the earthquake...
...Oregon was so sold on abolition once more that the idea won the full support of the state's leading clergymen, newspapers, politicians, law-enforcement officers and finally the voters, who killed the death penalty (gas chamber) by nearly 5 to 3 in a referendum last November. Multnomah County (Portland) District Attorney George Van Hoomissen summed up Oregon's attitude: "The specter of an innocent man unjustly executed is constantly in my mind...
...with opera began in his boyhood back home in Muncie, Ind., when he tuned in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on two radios -for the stereophonic effect-then accompanied the Met singers on his piano. Since then, while teaching composition at Columbia University, he has written four operas, several orchestral and chamber works...