Word: stockhausen
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...moved and seating capacity expanded from 800 to 1,200. Sophisticated technology in the oval hall allows the acoustics system to be instantly modified. Through July, an eclectic program of 75 concerts is scheduled, offering medieval, Renaissance, baroque, Romantic, jazz, pop and world music. An upcoming highlight is Karlheinz Stockhausen's Carre, to be performed by four orchestras on Feb. 17 and 18. The facility will also feature musical-instrument demonstrations, listening sessions, lectures, workshops and films...
Derrida agreed, and with Carole Bouquet and Stockhausen's Stimmung behind them, they read it. The cassette was sold with a version of the text...
...priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with the Bach and the Chopin, Cherkassky plays at least one modern piece on each program, and often the most startling revelations occur in these works. Ives' Three-Page Sonata or Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX are rinsed in his effervescent Romanticism, and concertgoers find formidable works exciting. Cherkassky's birthday bash is Dec. 2 at Carnegie Hall; several other dates, including St. Louis, Cleveland, London and Rome will follow...
...four separate meters, freewheeling modulations and titillating tonal trappings, showed that the Beatles had flowered as musicians. They learned to bend and stretch the pop-song mold, enriched their harmonic palette with modal colors, mixed in cross-rhythms, and pinched the classical devices of composers from Bach to Stockhausen. They supplemented their guitar sound with strings, baroque trumpets, even a calliope. With the help of their engineer, arranger and record producer, George Martin, they plugged into a galaxy of space-age electronic effects, achieved partly through a mixture of tapes run backward and at various speeds...
Lintgen also draws the line at certain contemporary works, such as those of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. "That," says the doctor, "is not music." But he can spot such forbidding or lesser known compositions as Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie or Alan Hovhaness's Floating World "Ukiyo." "Those two were my best accomplishments," he says, "unless you count the time I recognized a recording of Beethoven's Fifth from across the room...