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...Boulez chooses to encounter -and upon their ability to communicate, musically and verbally, with their audiences. Boulez has so far made it clear that he is unlikely to schedule his own music. Still, the complexity and climate of "Prospective Encounters" may be safely forecast by listening to PH Scion Pli, a Boulez composition just released by Columbia Records...
...Pli Selon Pli-meaning "fold along the fold"-is based on three poems by Mallarme and was begun in the late 1950s. With piano, guitar and mandolin, it also enlists a soprano soloist and a full orchestra, runs 60 minutes, and is easily Boulez's most ambitious composition to date, outstripping even his 1955 Le Marteait sans Maitre. Severely serial, the work begins with a crash and a delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres...
...innovations like these, says Boulez, that make him still contemporary today. Boulez should know. As a leading avant-garde composer himself (Pli selon pli), he is the outstanding exponent of Debussyean principles. "My performances of Debussy are not just historical reconsiderations," he says. "The only masterpieces that are vital today are the ones we can take a modern point of view about. Who can tell you about the reality of Debussy at the turn of the century? Nobody...
...Robert Dupouey will give the second of the four French readings from Victor Hugo, this evening at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11. Mr. Dupouey will read the following selections: Eile avait prisce pli, from "Les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "Les Contemplations;" extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "Les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "La Legende des Siecles;" la Vache, from "Les Voix Interieures." The reading will be open to the public...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Elle avait pris ce pli, from "les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "les Contemplations"; extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "la Legende des siecles;" la Vache, from "les Voix interieures." Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...