Word: salerni
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Harvard Group for New Music, now in its second season, was set up by music graduate students Lou Karchin and Paul Salerni for a dual purpose. First, they wanted to provide a forum for music written by composition students at Harvard, although each concert program also includes one masterpiece of contemporary music. Second, they were interested in getting Cambridge audiences past the "This stuff doesn't even sound like music" stage...
Recognizing this need for repeated exposure to a complex piece of contemporary music, Karchin and Salerni programmed the same work to open both halves of the concert: David Burton's Serenata for 8 Wind Instruments, composed in 1971. Burton was a graduate student in music before his untimely death last year, and the Serenata shows a keen appreciation of the possibilities inherent in wind chamber music. In particular, winds rather than strings, by the nature of their instruments, are more suited to Burton's use of short, rhythmically changing yet repeated motives. If anything, the Serenata is too rhythmically demanding...
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