Example sentences for: penderecki

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  • Berio, accompanied by technicians from Centro Tempo Reale, his electronic-music headquarters in Florence, and the Orchestra della Toscana, performed his work-in-perpetual-progress, Ofanim . The following week, Penderecki conducted a New York Philharmonic performance of Threnody and gave the New York premiere of a recent symphony-- No.

  • Many young composers view musical modernism with distaste, much as Berio and Penderecki and their peers viewed late Romanticism in their day.

  • In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.

  • In the decades since it was composed, orchestras have been asked to make noises that sound much worse than Penderecki's squeaks and blurts.

  • The most recognizable to Western listeners are composers such as Frédéric Chopin, the father of Polish music, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Górecki, who unexpectedly scored an international best seller with his Symphony No. 3 in the early 1990s.


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