Word: denisov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia's far-out stockpile, it is simply that today's musical world spins through healthy confusion. While some composers have chosen to cut themselves off from the familiar sounds of instruments in favor of microphones and amplifiers, others-Lukas Foss, Gunther Schuller and the Russian Edison Denisov-find within orchestral resources the means for flying just as high. Denisov, the first composer from the recently surfaced Russian avant-garde to find his way to records, builds his six-minute Crescendo e Diminuendo by offering the conductor a series of short, disconnected blocks of string tones that...
...Edison Denisov, 37, from Siberia, teaches orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory. His cantata, The Suns of the Incas, which was performed in Darmstadt and Paris last year, combines elements of both twelve-tone and chance (improvisational) music. Named by his electronics professor father for Thomas Edison, Denisov is regarded as the most important and adventuresome of the new voices in Russian music...