Word: serializer
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...much of the 20th century, many leading avant-garde composers have arranged their notes, rhythms and timbres according to predetermined schemes or series. Such major works as Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade and, more recently, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître have been serial compositions. Indeed no one has championed serialism more than has Boulez, the onetime enfant terrible of French music who is now the 47-year-old conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. Yet there was Boulez in Manhattan last week introducing his new 31-minute composition . . . explosante/fixe . . . and conceding...
...crack in the serial wall? Definitely. . . . explosante/fixe . . . will offer no solace to the many who would like today's composers to get back to good old melody, but it should send a few shock waves throughout the international composing ranks. Boulez is searching for a harmonic scheme that he finds wanting in serialism, but without a return to the strictures of traditional tonality. "To find that," says Boulez, "is the great problem of our time...
Comfort believes that more group sex will mean less hypocrisy. "Now we are dishonest because we have a society that is supposed to be monogamous but in fact practices serial polygamy. Most people have been married more than once, and adultery is universally tolerated. Open marriage would simply legitimize what we already live...
...Record for Make, Model and serial number of valuable equipment to increase the chances of recovery if stolen...
...minutes later, the demonstrators broadcast a tape recording of serial warfare over a loudspeaker while chanting, "BBN come out the door, listen to your own air war." To their surprise, about a dozen BBN workers suddenly appeared, Calling themselves "antiwar employses of BBN," they distributed a leaflet among the protesters entitled, "Welcome, Members of the North Cambridge Vietnam Committee...