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" I have spent about forty years of my life at music, most of that time trying to find out what music can do for children; puzzling through the years; realizing what music has done for me; seeing how many people, equipped technically, having every opportunity , still come very far from reaching the true import of the whole matter! "
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" According to Mr. Mocsanyi the show is the first in the United States to survey the "continuous flow" of French satire from the beginning of the 17th century to World War 1. "
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" Until 1936,Cowell divided his time between the East and West Coasts of the United States. In California, his activities on behalf of fellow composers were as remarkable as his music. In 1925 he organized the New Music Society of California, which was the principal mechanism on the West Coast for the performance of unconventional music. "
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" Always remember when you listen to a composer's creation, you are listening to a man, to a particular individual, with his own special personality. "
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Paul Mocsanyi (in Hungarian, Mocsányi Pál) initiated and directed the New School Art Center for about 15 years. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1900, to a grain merchant family and attended various universities in Budapest, Vienna, and Paris, where he studied art and music without pursuing a degree. German and Hungarian were his […]
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An American modernist composer during the 1920s and 30s was, for all intents and purposes, not on the radar screen. Not only was he/she unnoticed but in some quarters even distained by the mainstream concert community. To be American and modernist in the same breath carried a double burden. On the one hand, they were […]
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Born in 1912, John Cage was an experimental composer and pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments. Cage is frequently lauded as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. At the same time he remains a controversial figure for challenging the very idea of what […]
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" Music and Musicology. Music and Language. To increase the understanding of the social function of music it is necessary first to examine the relation of music to language. "
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" Formerly, whenever anyone said the music I presented was experimental, I objected. "