Word: chiffchaff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declaring that "nature is the supreme resource," has based a weird, episodic, 22-minute piece on the sounds of wind and water and the songs of birds (the xylophone plays the nuthatch, the glockenspiel the wren). At one point the instrumental stand-ins for 18 birds, from nightingale to chiffchaff, perform a complex medley. Yet Chronochromie is no mere imitation of nature, and in fact stands at the opposite pole-being a highly cerebral exercise concerned, as its title indicates, with the "color of time." Played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra along with shorter pieces by Pierre Boulez...
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