For Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, 57, life has by his own testimony been “one long suffer.” The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily ...
American composer George Perle, a respected theorist, teacher, author and eloquent advocate for atonal music, died at his home in Manhattan Friday, Jan. 23. He was 93. Although Perle embraced the ...
Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks is a modernist who distrusts twelve-tone music as too coldly intellectual, electronic music as more engineering than art. In her own search for originality, she ...