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...against tradition and habits in sex," says Italian Composer Luigi Nono. "I am against repetition every time you make love. I apply this also to my music...
...Nono has applied his philosophy of nonrepetition so adroitly that, at 38, he is one of Europe's most respected avant-garde composers-and one of the hardest to classify. Although he dabbles in electronic music, he is not primarily a member of the electronic school; although he has written twelve-tone music, he is now convinced that "the twelve-tone serial no longer exists." Nono's greatest gift is for choral works-some of them so formidable that on paper, at least, they seem un-singable. But in the concert hall, they often emerge strong and compelling...
Strange & Haunting. In the 13-minute unaccompanied chorale Chorus of Dido, Nono as usual used the voice as a musical instrument, at times calling upon performers to jump two octaves, insisting that consonants as well as vowels be stressed, introducing a kind of staccato syllabification that somehow managed not to obscure the text. What gave Dido its strange and haunting power was the deft balance of the vocal writing-so carefully calculated that all 32 choristers were able to sing together without destroying the work's flexible texture...
...achieve such balance, Composer Nono wrote at least one dynamic marking over every note and word in the score. His other work on the program, She Has Come: Songs for Silvia (a first birthday present to his daughter Silvia), had the same wild leaps and a score instructing the soloists when to have their mouths wide open, when barely open, when closed...
Quivering slightly after receipt of a copy of the wire forwarded by the nono- generian's New York agents, Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, told reporters that he had gone over the head of Shaw's Boston representatives, the Baker Play Company, because of possible conflict with Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," currently playing in New York...