Word: maderna
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...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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