Word: dissonante
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MAHLER: SYMPHONY No. 9 (Angel; 2 LPs). Mahler's orchestral masterwork, his last completed symphony, is played in the grand manner by the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli conducting. The first movement, as long as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, is full of fluctuating rhythms that move along with...
Pingpong. It is not so much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian...
Up from Limbo. Yet, amazingly, last week Bud Powell, now 39, was back on the U.S. jazz scene, cured of TB and fat as a Burgermeister. The homecoming was staged at Birdland, New York's famed jazz temple, which after a two-month fling at booking rock-'n...
This is not the first time that the play has suggested music, for Louis Gruenberg turned it into an opera, which was the talk of the Metropolitan's 1933 season. But here the spoken text is intact. The new, moderately dissonant music comes from the pen of Dudley Moore. Al...
What begins as a subliminal feeling at Kassel gradually forces its way to consciousness: the sense of a unifying modern vision and temper that link seemingly disparate and dissonant works of art. The bewildering array of influences and counterinfluences in contemporary art, from the School of Paris to the New...