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The New York Times,
23 April, 2006 By MELINE TOUMANI It was surprising to see 150 people gathered in a hall here last weekend, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, to spend an entire day exploring two questions: "How did it happen?" and "Why did it happen?" The "it"
was the 20th-century trend toward music that was atonal, rhythmically
unpredictable, melodically hard to remember and altogether strange sounding:
music that was not "classical" in a Mozartean or Beethovenian
sense yet was still, broadly speaking, part of the classical music world. |
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