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...Luigi Nono is a gentle man - until provoked. Then, he says, he writes music. Provoked by "neo-Nazism," the "Algerian struggle for liberty" and racial discrimination, among other things, he composed Intolleranza 1960, an opera of social protest that has done some wholesale provoking of its own. Its première in Venice four years ago was interrupted by a hail of stink bombs from the gallery and cries of "This opera makes me sick!" Nono's followers shouted back "Cretins!" "Dirty Fascists!" in a riotous uproar that even for Italy was, as one critic shuddered, "as ugly...
Last week the adventurous Boston Opera produced Intolleranza for the first time in the U.S.-and right from the beginning there was provocation aplenty. First, Nono's application for a visitor's visa to the U.S. was denied because he is a member of the Italian Communist Party. Two Boston newspapers and a committee of 65 U.S. musicians and composers protested and got the State Department to change its mind. Nono arrived two weeks late, demanded so many last-minute changes that the opening was postponed for two days. Once the curtain went up, however, Intolleranza proved...
Pingpong. It is not so much an opera as a series of dreamlike tableaux strung across a barren landscape of the ear. The score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said...
Edgar Vincent, press representative of the BOG, said that in Nono's opera, Inollrranza 60, there is "nothing political at all, except that the opera is against intolerance." He added that Nono's works have been banned in Russia because they are "anti-totalitarian...
...Luigl Nono, who recently ran on the Communist Party ticket in the municipal elections of Italy, was denied the visa under a section of the immigration law which provides against the admission of Communists, anarchists, and other undesirables...