Word: dautricourt
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...HARVARD GROUP FOR NEW MUSIC is a crusader for the performance and reception of contemporary music. The group's concert last Saturday night, which included works by Burton, Dautricourt, MacMillan, and Ives, showed that the battle is by no means won; even one of the evening's performers half-jokingly confided, "I'll be amazed if you like this; I know I don't." But at least he, like an increasing number of Harvard community members, was interested enough to take a first step toward modern music. And despite his words, the concert proved both commendable in the level...
...opening performance of the Burton was followed by Jean-Pierre Dautricourt's Elan I, II for two flutes, composed in 1976. The work is written in a stream of consciousness vein, although the development is in fact somewhat controlled. Nevertheless, Elan sounds almost aleatoric in places; that is, the actual notes played in any one performance are determined by the whim of the performer, although the catalogue of choices for these notes is usually written out by the composer...
Edward Schultz and Sadako Yukoyama, both former New England Conservatory students, realized Dautricourt's innovative conception of the flute's musical possibilities with considerable success. This is not at all as conventional as it sounds, for, more and more, composers like Dautricourt are requiring from wind performers new technical tricks such as playing two and three notes simultaneously, tone bending, quarter-tones or notes at smaller intervals than half-steps, and percussion effects...
Harvard Group for New Music. Works of Dautricourt, MacMillan, Burton and Ives played by Stephen Drury on the piano at 8:30 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. Free...
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