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Benjamin Lees in Excelsis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Nicolas Slonimsky
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Extract

American composers are at the crossroads—at an intersection of three roads, the serial, the neo-baroque and that of the intransigent avant-garde. The serial road, in the Schoenbergian direction, is rapidly growing over with cryptochromatic weeds. The neo-baroque road has been polluted beyond recovery by Stravinsky's acolytes. As to the third road, it has become an Escher print, in which giant ants are twisted on a Möbius strip, with the vistas literally ‘far-out’.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 113 , June 1975 , pp. 14 - 21
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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