Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naturally the stage cramps D'Elia's choreography, which suffers from overambition. The dancers are good, being recruits from the Boston Conservatory and refugees from the Jazz Dance Workshop, but they have so much complex work to do in this ballet-heavy musical that they don't always move sharply...
Ellington says that his greatest competition today is the Duke Ellington of 25 years ago. In those days, his raw, rich musical language had already established him as a great innovator. His audiences today tend to expect to hear the same Ellington, but he will have none of that. "We...
If Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands...
Such mixtures seem quite natural to Messiaen, who describes himself as "a born believer, musician and revolutionary." He taught himself to play the piano at eight, at ten was devouring the scores of Don Giovanni, Die Walkure and Pelleas et Melisande. He conceived a lifelong fascination with "all things mysterious...
In the resort town of Royan last week, as Messiaen presided over an international piano competition, he reflected that the young musicians he has influenced have not imitated him but have gone their own way, forging new electronic, mathematic or aleatory (chance) musical techniques. His own ideal is still "to...