Word: krenek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...
According to Krenek serial music is an attempt to reinject a personal element into composition. The composer of serial music predetermines the organization of sound material arbitrarily, while the non-serial composer is restricted by the demands of the conventional harmonic structure, he explained...
...Krenek pointed to twelve-tone music as a specialized case of serial music. The twelve-tone composer exerts his prerogative when he determines the organization of pitch prior to actual composition. Serial music extends arbitrary pre-organization to other musical elements, such as dynamics, rhythm, range and density, Krenek said...
...example of series music Krenek played a tape of his "Quaestio Temporis," a short piece for chamber orchestra. "It sounds completely random," he said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional sense, he explained; rather, there are six different speed zones which are determined by a Fibonacci series, in which each element is the sum of the two proceeding...
...Krenek cited several other attempts to break away from conventional romantic inspiration. In a San Francisco concert this year, musicians sat around a goldfish bowl on which they had painted a staff; they put a large goldfish in the bowl, and played the music it swam...