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Initial reactions to Fabius' appointment were mixed. Said Bernard Pons, secretary-general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in...
More warily than their pop music colleagues, serious composers have taken notice. An instrument that can reduce the forces needed to perform Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra from a 100-piece symphony orchestra to a couple of keyboards, electrical outlets and multitrack stereo tape is obviously something to be...
His clientele included Standard Oil Heiress Millicent Rogers, Lily Pons, Gypsy Rose Lee and assorted acolytes of high society, and this show, too, takes undue pains to pat the backs that were once adorned by James. But where Vreeland bows deep, the Brooklyn Museum's curator of costumes and...
As the piece develops, a furioso section for the ensemble is followed by electronic responses from the soloists until the entire orchestra begins to fragment, a violin jutting out here, a trombone blasting there. Répons gradually increases in rhythmic complexity as held notes in the brass arch over...
And this is only Part 1. Commissioned by the Southwest German Radio and premiered in October at Germany's Donaueschingen festival, Répons will soon acquire a second half from Boulez. No matter how that turns out, it is already clearly a major work by a composer who...