Word: pousseur
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...Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...
Sign and symbol of Buffalo's new militancy is its Second Festival of the Arts Today, a 16-day program of cultural events that include premieres of two plays by Edward Albee and an opera by Belgium's Henri Pousseur, the first U.S. performances of new works by Penderecki and Greek-born lannis Xenakis, a new movie by Underground Mogul Jonas Mekas, John Barth reading his new novella aloud, and lectures by City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis and Designer Buckminster Fuller. The whole shebang got under way last week with a display of 300 constructivist paintings and sculptures called...
...Winthrop House Festival began last Tuesday evening with the music of the Belgian avantgarde composer Henri Pousseur. Assisted by pianist Marcelle Mercenier, Pousseur provided an evening of mixed successes and failures, a program of roughly hewn brilliance which can still stand improvement...
...serial composition is by the composer's own admission, a musical almanac "going from Beethoven to Schoenberg in five minutes." Harmonically it shows a startling resourcefulness, both tonal and non-tonal. Particularly amusing was the recurrence of a particularly slushy theme, either because of the humorous contrast with Pousseur's art, or perhaps due to its explicit banality in the Pousseur context...
COMPLETING the program was Jeu de Miroir de Votre Faust for piano and tapes, controlled respectively by Mme. Mercenier and M. Pousseur. Jeu is a reflection upon both Miroir and Votre Faust, Pousseur's newly-completed opera. Created expressly for this concert, Jeu is a reduced version of Miroir with electronic sounds superimposed. A favorite was the conspicuous return of Miroir's syrupy melody followed by a gripping cry of anguish from the loudspeakers. It was good to see this theme receive its just desserts...