Word: gesnaldo
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Some of Stravinsky's recent works, such as his seven-minute Gesnaldo Monumentum, which is little more than an orchestration of three madrigals by Don Carlo Gesualdo (circa 1560-1613), have suggested that nowadays the old revolutionary talks better about music (in interviews with Protege Conductor Robert Craft) than he composes. Although, in the U.S. at least, Stravinsky remains the most widely played living composer, the works that turn up most often in the concert halls are early masterpieces like Firebird and Petronchka, with their gorgeous colors, their richly varied rhythms and brilliant orchestrations...
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