Word: tishchenko
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...apparently, the Kremlin has permitted a trade of the tools. In the past few years an impressive group of young avant-garde composers have blossomed in the Soviet Union. Last week Composer Boris Tishchenko made his first trip outside Russia to hear the Western premiere of his atonal Concerto Grosso at the annual spring festival in Prague...
Concerto Grosso, first prize winner in the Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
...Tishchenko, 27, is a relative newcomer to the ranks of the Russian moderns, which are led by a trio of young Turks...