Word: reponsive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American listeners have a chance to judge for themselves. Last week in Los Angeles, Boulez and his crack new-music group, the Ensemble InterContemporain, began a five-city U.S. tour, bringing with them a visionary 45-minute marriage of live performers and computers called Repons (response). It is the first...
Repons is a good illustration. Musically and technologically, it is Boulez's most ambitious, unorthodox undertaking to date. In a large gymnasium (the Los Angeles performances were at the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around...
I am a onetime avant-garde pianist who has been performing for many years. Among other new works, I introduced Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in New York City as early as 1947.1 always felt I was one step ahead of my time. Yet, I was horrified...
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