Word: penderecki
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...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...
Austerely contemporary in sound, Penderecki's two-hour oratorio draws on a wide musical spectrum ranging from pious Gregorian chants to the dry linearity of the twelve-tone school. In a fresh departure from the Passions of Bach and Telemann, his chorus participates as well as comments, punctuating Christ's ascent to Calvary with hisses, shouts and mocking laughter, while the music quavers and sighs in sympathetic counterpoint. With the lean, clean strokes of a fencer, Penderecki slices to the heart of the Passion, revealing through the intolerance shown to one man the tragedy...
Saws & Sirens. Passion is Penderecki's latest and most ambitious work. Now 33, he leapt into prominence seven years ago when he anonymously entered three compositions in a competition sponsored by the Polish Composer's Association -and walked off with first, second and third prizes. The first performances of his music in Poland were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting...
...problem of scoring for such non-instruments is something that even the great orchestrater Rimsky-Korsakoff could not have foreseen. Even Penderecki's requirements for customary instruments compelled him to devise a new written language that would convey the sounds he wanted to hear. Today, many of his notational inventions have become the accepted form for avant-garde composers. Tone clusters, for example are designated by highest and lowest notes...