The five myths about contemporary classical music


Česky: Iannis Xenakis English: Iannis Xenakis

From The Guardian:

That’s part of the genius of John Cage or Helmut Lachenmann, one way in which the world becomes a different place when you listen to their music. But there’s something else: the visceral impact of music such as Iannis Xenakis‘s Jonchaies, Stockhausen’s Gruppen for three orchestral groups or Luciano Berio‘s Coro is like nothing else music has done before.

About these ads
Posted in General. 1 Comment »

One Response to “The five myths about contemporary classical music”

  1. Book: What to Listen for in Music « jameskennedybeijing Says:

    [...] The five myths about contemporary classical music (avantmusicnews.com) [...]


Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 3,693 other followers

%d bloggers like this: