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Word: stravinskyan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise his talent for musical satire; the score glitters with echoes of half a dozen com posers, from Berg to Bartok. Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana is brilliantly parodied by an offstage male chorus singing a salty Latin text on the mating habits of ants; acidulous Stravinskyan brasses turn up in Act III. The real wonder is that despite the borrowing Composer Ronnefeld's score has a character of its own brash, melodramatic, full of rhythmic fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Preposterous Ant | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

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