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Serenoodle for Northerly Winds and Percussion by P.D.Q. Bach, and works by Ives Schoenberg, Gabrielli Grainger, and Catel; HU Concert Band; Sanders...
Died. Luigi Dallapiccola, 71, Italian twelve-tone composer; of heart disease; in Florence. In 1939, Dallapiccola adopted Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method of composing and with it produced complex, passionate vocal and instrumental music in which he tried to express Europe's suffering. He became known in the U.S. through such well-received works as his opera The Prisoner, and his several stints as instructor in composition at Tanglewood. Mass., and elsewhere...
That is a reflection, perhaps, of a most conventional but lucky childhood. His father was a successful Manhattan lace importer who took the boy along on business trips to Europe. Carter foraged music shops in Vienna and Paris for Schoenberg and Stravinsky scores. Then came Harvard, where, save for Walter Piston and the visiting Gustav Hoist, "the teachers didn't like and didn't really understand one single thing about contemporary music...
After the death of Stravinsky in 1971, Carter emerged as the most important composer in the U.S. To the uninitiated, his recent orchestral and chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters...
Lucy Shelton, soprano and David Abramovitz, planist; songs of Schoenberg, Messiaen, Britten, and Rachmaninoff; Currier SCR; 8:30 p.m.; free...