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...note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The End of a World | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...present short programs of music of more than common interest and less than common knowledge," Senturia states. For example, in Friday's concert, the Orchestra will present Stravinsky's "Symphonies of Wind Instruments," "a particularly uncompromising piece," Senturia's own arrangement for strings of Bach's six-part Ricercar, from "The Musical Offering," plus the Beethoven concerto...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: The Music Man | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

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