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Echoi does establish a structure, but tears it down again as I have mentioned, almost as if there were something immoral about well-ordered music. While the piece itself might be very pleasing as an example of the new music, the composer goes out of his way to make it...
WE were talking about pollution, and he said, 'Well, it's a worldwide problem, no question about that. The Danube is the dirtiest damn river I ever saw. The rivers in Europe are all like that. The Mediterranean is filthy. And nobody wants to go to Acapulco. You...
THE MAIN object of an evening at Pops-at least in theory-is to hear the music. The Heliconian strains of this celestial band flow sweetly to the ears of the listener, enveloping him in a rapture which has led more loquacious critics to rampant excess of sesquipedalian verbiage. The...
Zacher's new technique is not confined to the keyboard. His most dramatic trick is to turn the organ blower off while playing. How this sounds can be heard in Kagel's Improvisation Ajoutée, a chilling evocation of chaos included in a Zacher LP just released...
The investing of the musical object with the listener's subjective responses is actually nothing more than a form of the pathetic fallacy.