Word: dissonante
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The latest composition of Russia's great Composer Sergei Prokofiev was published in Moscow last week. To the tin ear of Soviet officialdom, it was back on the Russian scale, but to Western ears, it was the most dissonant thing he had ever written. It was a letter of...
Few living composers had ever had so much of their music played in one week. Everyone seemed to burst out playing the knotty, dissonant music of Paul Hindemith.
Written in 1917, "Les Noces" depicts Russian folk lore with a nationalist and unorthodex flavor. It is "sensational" music according to conductor Irving G. Fine '37, professor of Music, for the dissonant sounds produced by the preponderance of percussion make a "clamoring, gong-like music."
Punch & Power. Peter Grimes is more than a new opera; for the Met it is a new kind of opera. Dissonance has been heard in the Met's hallowed halls before-in Strauss's Elektra and Salome. Bernard Rogers' The Warrior, which was flashed on & off last...
Back in Mozart's birthplace, the Salzburg Festival's main event last week was a different kind of opera. Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer...