Word: hausen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pact is hard to enforce if anyone really wants to circumvent it; Boden-hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals, thus enabling Italian firms to copy the world's new drugs as fast as they are invented. Several big nations, such as India, Pakistan, Argentina and Chile, remain outside the system, some of them figuring that they invent too little to profit from it. Nor does the pact protect artistic...
...other composers whose New Music was performed included the German, Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose recent Zyklus for one percussionist appeared on the first half of the program. Designed to combine "the elements of free and determinate performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium...