Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pianos, four solo singers, a chorus and an assortment of percussion instruments -with a passion and vigor that left his audience breathless. Standing spiderlike on the podium, he raised clenched fists or clawed the air with splayed fingers, setting the hall alive with the violently percussive rhythms, the clipped vocal phrases, the primary colorations that once made his ritualistic evocation of a peasant wedding such a shocking piece of musical theater. But last week's audience had traveled a long way from the 1920s: its reaction was not one of shock but of reverence in the presence...