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  • Hause music at Liverpool’s Cornerstone Festival

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    Image via Wikipedia Stockhausen is the part of this festival. WHEN asked if he was familiar with Stockhausen, Sir Thomas Beecham, both conductor and musical wag, famously replied: “Yes, I trod in some this morning.” The German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen – who used electronic gadgetry and tapes in producing his compositions – was a…