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La Memoria e la Resistenza nel segno di Massiaen

Read "La Memoria e la Resistenza nel segno di Massiaen" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Musica Insieme Contemporanea San Filippo Neri, Bologna, 27.01.2015 Il concerto d'inaugurazione di MICO 2015, la rassegna di musica contemporanea organizzata dalla Fondazione Musica Insieme, ha coinciso con la Giornata della Memoria e alle sue finalità il programma era improntato. Ma l'appuntamento rientrava anche nel palinsesto di Resistenza Illuminata 1945--2015, un più ampio e articolato ciclo d'iniziative culturali che fino al dicembre 2015 si dipanerà fra Bologna, Modena, Ferrara e Reggio Emilia, coordinando l'azione di varie istituzioni del ...

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A Capella Choral Works by Messiaen and His Students Stockhausen and Xenakis

A Capella Choral Works by Messiaen and His Students Stockhausen and Xenakis

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

The high-modernists did not typically work within an a capella choral framework. In fact the heyday of such a grouping belongs to the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance. After that there is a precipitous decline, except in religious-based music where of course liturgical traditions help encourage the continued emergence of new compositions for vocal groupings. Given that, todays CD (Chandos 9663) (which has been around for several years) of unaccompanied choral music by Messiaen and his pupils Stockhausen and Xenakis ...

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