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Michele Sahm, Flutist, Philip Morehead pianist, and others. Music of Stravinsky, Maderna and Ibert...
...Jones Chair of Composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore this year. In Europe, he ranks as one of the most influential American composers, and is admired by such leading musicians as France's Pierre Boulez, Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen and Italy's Bruno Maderna. Available Forms II, which is Brown's most ambitious work, was performed by the New York Philharmonic in 1964, with Brown conducting one orchestra of 49 players and Leonard Bernstein another. Brown is now putting the finishing touches on a work for 30 instrumentalists that he will perform with...
...much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said Tenor Lawrence White...
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