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
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
Lutoslawski, who rejected the postwar serialist aesthetic, was influenced by Polish composers like Chopin and Szymanowski, the Debussian tradition and John Cage’s chance procedures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2012
These spare, serialist miniatures are so enigmatic that Holliger took the unusual step of playing the whole sequence twice.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2010
‘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
