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Music

Modernist cul-de-sac

7 April 2016

1:00 PM

7 April 2016

1:00 PM

The intransigence of Maxwell Davies, Boulez and Stockhausen is coming home to roost. Here were three composers, famous if not exactly popular, who called many shots by the time they died yet whose works were little loved in their lifetimes by the concert-going public and stand little chance of performance now they are dead.

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