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...artist's worth. Surely, though, the irony has not escaped his vocal band of adherents that for all its devotion to "chance," to musique trouve, to the music of the streets and the spheres, Cage's compositions sound as tightly / scripted and totalitarian as anything by Pierre Boulez or Luigi Nono. It is chance music in which nothing is left to chance -- as Cage eventually realized. In Peter Greenaway's 1983 television documentary on him, Cage complains that he has had trouble getting performers to take him seriously. "I must find a way to let people be free without their...
...Beavis and Butt-head and the new Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle, Last Action Hero. Such a fin-de-siecle moment: Schwarzenegger, the son of an Austrian Nazi, starring in a $70 million special-effects action blockbuster that owes everything to a brilliant avant- garde 1921 play by Luigi Pirandello, the Italian Fascist...
Indeed, he's something of a square. A self-described "uptight, serialism- oriented, would-be intellectual," Salonen was educated as a composer in his native Helsinki, in the manner of such daunting dodecaphonists as Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Nono and Elliott Carter. His conducting career began as an adjunct to his composing at the Sibelius Academy, but it took off in 1983 when he stepped in for Michael Tilson Thomas on a week's notice to lead the London Philharmonia in Mahler's woolly mammoth, the Symphony No. 3 -- despite the fact that prior to the call he had never even...
...Feldman as well as those of Wolff himself, and Rzewski eventually became as famous for performing the works of these composers as for his own music. Upon graduating from Harvard, Rzewski spent two years at Princeton before going to Europe on Fulbright and Ford Foundation grants to study with Luigi Dallapiccola and Elliott Carter. In Rome, he helped to found Musica Elettronica Viva, a group dedicated to live and improvised electronic music...
...goal, sophomore Luigi Villa has shown a knack for keeping the puck out of the net, but instead of Villa, Harvard will face Union's other goalie in the rotation, Mike Gallant...