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The Roots of 20th-Century Music: Dancing on a Volcano
This program describes a great musical culture in decline in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and discusses how that decline led to the musical revolution whose reverberations are still felt today. Names like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg still strike terr...(more details) |
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The American Way
This program focuses on young, innovative American composers who learned from the music of the past, and from the music of other cultures. Jazz, military bands, Quaker hymns, country dances, German Expressionism, and minimalism all contribute to a da...(more details) |
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Rhythm
This program examines 20th-century music from the perspective of its most fundamental force-rhythm. It shows how western orchestral music has freed itself from the domination of melody and explored the richness of musical pulse. Starting with the dri...(more details) |
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Bartok, Shostakovich, Lutoslawski: Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes
This program examines the effect of political upheaval in Eastern Europe on the music of Bartok, Shostakovich, and Lutoslawski. We see how the composers, in spite of adverse political pressures, managed to develop their own musical language in such w...(more details) |
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Post-War Music: After the Wake
This program turns its attention to music's response to war, and how the Second World War changed musical thinking forever. The musical legacy of composers dominant in the first part of the century is compared with post-war composers who were determi...(more details) |
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