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...opening Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1946) was, in Boulez' words, "my first stage on the path of serial composition." Boulez likened the four sections which follow the introduction of this single-movement work to the four movements of the sonata. At the same time, he says, there is an opposition between quasi-thematic motifs derived from the fundamental series of the work, and athematic uses of rhythmic cells, i.e., short rhythmic groups...
...insistence that twelve-tone composition need not always be atonal. "There are alarming signs that composition with twelve tones may become a Cause," he wrote while working on his symphony, then proved his freedom from causes by building his music on rhythmic patterns outlawed by the canons of serial technique. The First Symphony opens with a lively burst of serial figures, repeated over and over in headstrong violation of Schoenberg's rules. Rushing excitement then gives way to the eerie calm of the second movement; the science-fiction-thriller sound of Gerhard's adagio strings led the admiring...
...Proof" in Pictures. These goings-on were not in a James Bond thriller. They came in a detailed, two-part serial in Pravda titled Caught Redhanded, which may herald the biggest Moscow spy spectacular since Gary Powers' U-2 trial...
Codes & Cameras. Their Russian contact, the real heavy of Pravda's story, was Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a vain cheapskate who held an "important job" in the Soviet agency that coordinates scientific research. The secret life of Oleg, the serial explained, revolved around his hopes of escaping to the West, "the alluring world where there is no honor, no fatherland, no moral duty; where everything is measured by the pocketbook...
...Brown halfback Jan Moyer held on to the next Crimson kick-off and his 26 yard return was quickly followed by a long Dunda pass putting Brown inside the Harvard 40-yard line. The Crimson defense, impressed by Dunda's throwing prowess, held back for another serial attempt...