Word: serializer
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...Europe's most respected avant-garde composers-and one of the hardest to classify. Although he dabbles in electronic music, he is not primarily a member of the electronic school; although he has written twelve-tone music, he is now convinced that "the twelve-tone serial no longer exists." Nono's greatest gift is for choral works-some of them so formidable that on paper, at least, they seem un-singable. But in the concert hall, they often emerge strong and compelling-as they did at the Venice Contemporary Music Festival last week in first-rate performances...
...Mysterious Book Bag" CRIMSON begins its presentation of Swiss's chilling serial The Circle of Seven. H. Lewiss is the pseudonym assistant professor of English Harvard who began this venture into fiction as a diversion from his studies of the Jacobean theater. Further episodes of The Circle of Seven will appear regularly in issues of the REVIEW and in inserts in the daily paper...
...Algiers, particularly when De Gaulle speaks. S.A.O. orders for strikes, the hoarding of food, or the withdrawal of savings from banks are widely obeyed. Overnight, the S.A.O. can plaster Algiers with posters and proclamations. In the morning's mail, Europeans find mobilization orders, complete down to their actual army serial number, ordering service not in the army but in the S.A.O...
...screamed until the oil reached his lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that his psychiatric hero is three-quarters Mr. Roberts and one-quarter Nostradamus...
...adjustable piano bench-two inches higher for Prokofiev than for Beethoven-because he believes a high bench helps him produce some of the percussive effects of modern music. Little is left to chance. Everywhere he goes on tour, Browning carries a small black book-its pages crammed with the serial numbers of melodious pianos located in the towns he plans to visit...