serialist
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Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Trained as a strict serialist, Saariaho was exposed in the early 1980s to the sonic haze of spectralist composers like Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
He launched music-appreciation projects on television at a time when network executives considered Stravinsky’s serialist score “The Flood,” with choreography by Balanchine, suitable for a mass public.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Yet, even while he was studying with Boulez and embracing the European serialist movement, he was already beginning to flourish as a film composer.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2012
‘Elitist’ is an overused word, tinged with resentment, but in describing serialist self-justification of the twentieth century it is spot on.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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