Eastman School of Music - Score Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Bang! struck a spooky chord of piano, whistles, violingmarimba, balloons, pa- per bag, bass, clarinet and drum as if to vibrate and distill death from the very air I . . You call that music? . . . They had tried, in a series of five concerts, to bring good avant garde music and interesting energetic performances together for their audiences, and they had largely succeeded . . . The extraordinary music of the eve- ning - a hair raising experience that still haunts me this morning and, I think will haunt me mornings after whenever I hear it again . . . I-low do you listen to this music? . . . I felt pretty good about the music I had experienced. I smiled. I guess I was learning . . . I think the problem with this music is that it depends on the au- dience more than the performer . . . Do not be discouraged if you encounter nega- tivity on the part of some people. Societal resistance to change is one of the trage- dies of the human condition . . . Zeitgeist is a gas . . . Skoog, I-langen and compa ny brought down the curtain on this year's Zeitgeist in Musik series with a 30- minute emotional crash, no whimpering, brilliantly sweeping all other premieres, 50th anniversary and all, aside. Theodore Price 7 1 s I , ,N as , Qs. fx, b Sf