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...four concerts focused on the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, a highly influential German composer noted for combining musique concrète with electrical music. Stockhausen, who died in December of last year, was at the forefront of avant-garde music, composing challenging but hugely influential works...
Avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Björk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
...ARMS DEALER: Karlheinz Schreiber, shown at right, is fighting extradition from Canada to Germany. He has given millions of dollars to senior officials of the C.D.U...
...easily moved and seating capacity expanded from 800 to 1,200. Sophisticated technology in the oval hall allows the acoustics system to be instantly modified. Through July, an eclectic program of 75 concerts is scheduled, offering medieval, Renaissance, baroque, Romantic, jazz, pop and world music. An upcoming highlight is Karlheinz Stockhausen's Carre, to be performed by four orchestras on Feb. 17 and 18. The facility will also feature musical-instrument demonstrations, listening sessions, lectures, workshops and films...
...astounding success of the G.D.R. team has raised inevitable questions of secret drugs or revolutionary training methods. "That's all nonsense," says Karlheinz Gieseler, secretary-general of the West German Sports Federation and a longtime observer of East German sports. "What makes the G.D.R. so great is the successive pruning out and systematic training of their talent...