1931 Oxford, London

…specialists in ultra-modern music.” –Unattributed (“From a Special Correspondent”), “Music in London: A Festival of Modern Music,” The Age [Melbourne, Australia] (29 August 1931) “On the musical side there is…

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Benoît Mernier: Piano Trio

Benoît Mernier (photo by Bernard Coutant)

Modern, Gaudeamus, World Music Days (ISCM), Prague Premieres, and have been played by groups and performers such as the Arditti Quartet, the Ensemble Modern, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Radio-Symphonieorchester…

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Adrian Lam: Recreational Mathematics

Adrian Lam

…James Poke Composition Competition in the UK, and the first prize in the New Generation. His work Separated from the Human Labyrinth of Asakusa Temple was awarded the first prize…

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1930 Liège, Brussels

(Presented in connection with the First Congress of the International Musicological Society) From contemporaneous reviews “As anybody who has attended a Festival of the I.S.C.M. can testify, it represents a…

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1976 Boston

…might contain new works by Stravinsky, Bartok and Webern—major composers, each representing a radicaily different style. But at these concerts there is generally an appalling conformity. Nearly all of the…

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