Word: dissonante
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DIED. Roger Sessions, 88, influential, uncompromising composer of reconditely complex orchestral, chamber and vocal works; in Princeton, N.J. Revered by fellow musicians, Sessions adapted such modernist techniques as Stravinskian neoclassicism and Schoenbergian serialism to his individual style, allowing lyricism and emotional color to come through the bursts and layers of...
Music for "The Turn of the Screw" is extreme difficult, the opera's participants say. "The music is not as accessible to the audience as other operas making it slightly dissonant to the audience and harder for the stagers to perform," says Hellmold. "The composer has, the singers in mind...
Punk is concerned essentially with the negation of traditional forms of society: good taste, politeness, moderation in dress and volume, and the family. Painters, writers and musicians had accomplished a similar negation before any of today's punks were born. The fractured images of any of Picasso's Guernica period...
Alas, even the maestro could not keep harmony among his dissonant musicians. Zubin Mehta, 48, the Bombay-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic, had returned to his native land after an absence of 17 years. In New Delhi, the eleventh stop of the orchestra's eight-nation Asian...
Eugene O'Neill was, supremely, a vernacular poet who found his most haunting rhythms in the profoundly mixed emotions of his characters, his most memorably dissonant sonorities in the muddled motives with which they confront memory, fate and each other. A Moon for the Misbegotten, his last completed play...