Word: krzysztof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the creators of new music that points firmly away from Bach cannot escape him. He is too deeply embedded in the curriculum of music conservatories, and he towers too imposingly as an unrivaled craftsman. Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, 35, acknowledges the continuity between Bach and his own St. Luke Passion (1966) by spelling out the master's name in a recurring cantus firmus: B flat, A, C, H (the German notation for B natural). Used by Bach himself in The Art of Fugue, the motif is a traditional tribute that has been paid by composers as diverse...
...experimental-music lover and he will tell you that since 1963 Lukas Foss, 45, one of the nation's most venturesome young composers, has been leading the Buffalo Philharmonic through the amelodic intricacies of Krzysztof Penderecki, Luigi Nono and other 20th century composers. Ask an educator and you will learn that Buffalo's 21,000-student private university, taken over by New York State in 1962, is now the largest single unit of the new state university system. A new $600 million educational plant, designed by the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is on the drawing boards...
...Pennsylvanians dared a world premiere-and a difficult one it was. Ceremony, by protean choreographer John Butler, a Martha Graham disciple, is cast in the new mold of dehumanized abstraction that Balanchine recently demonstrated in Metastaseis & Pithoprakta (TIME, Jan. 26). The score for Ceremony, by Polish avant-garde Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, is an aggressive compendium of cacophonies-growlings, twitterings, bongs and clashes, punctuated by police whistles and sirens...
After sitting in on rehearsals last week for the U.S. premiere of his two-hour oratorio, the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke, Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki was exuberant. The conductor, he said, "is excellent. He understands modern music-he has composed it himself. I have complete trust in him." Penderecki was talking about the musical director of the Minneapolis Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44. Later in the week, Skrowaczewski returned the compliment by leading his orchestra, soloists and local choristers in two austerely jolting performances of the Passion at Minneapolis' Northrup Auditorium...
...alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke by Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Europe's most impressive new voice in modern music...