Word: halina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres, skeletal in its economy. Like Stravinsky, Boulez treats the human voice instrumentally rather than vocally. Soprano Halina Lukomska copes expertly, though not easily, with a vocal line that soars and plunges from one extreme end of her voice to the other...