Word: gubaidulina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN FIRST started to tear in the early '80s, music lovers in the West have been exposed to a number of previously unknown composers whose reputations were obscured by the rigid Soviet system, among them Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Shnitke. Now comes a man who may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, 59, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia...
...programming that carefully dilutes the heavy cerebral stuff with forays into alternative worlds informed by rock, jazz, performacne art, and the folk music of various regions. Their concert Saturday, characteristically diverse in its content, comprised nine pieces, by Michael Daugherty. Osvaldo Golijov, George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Raymond Scott, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Part, John Zorn and Scott Johnson...