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...this is only Part 1. Commissioned by the Southwest German Radio and premiered in October at Germany's Donaueschingen festival, Répons will soon acquire a second half from Boulez. No matter how that turns out, it is already clearly a major work by a composer who is still boldly extending music's horizons...
Darmstadt became one of Germany's two top crucibles of avant-garde music; the other is Donaueschingen, whose annual fest is shorter and less pedagogic, but whose commissions for new works carry enormous prestige...
...knucklebone, out of which primitive dice were made. Although Composer Cage was preaching the aleatory doctrine eleven years' ago (in his Imaginary Landscape No. 4, he conducted an ensemble that played twelve radios simultaneously), the big boom in music-by-chance has come only recently; summer festivals at Donaueschingen and Darmstadt perform it with enthusiasm...
...mountain streams trickle through the Black Forest, unite at Donaueschingen, about 20 miles from the Swiss border and 40 miles from the French frontier, and the Danube (German, Donau) begins its 1725-mile flow through Wiirttemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria and Rumania to empty itself into the Black...
July 20-21, Modern Chamber Music, Donaueschingen...
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