![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | On Varese's Ionisation, 1973 - Edgar Varese, Nicolas Slonimsky, David Cloud
This program was produced for broadcast on the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of Ionisation, a percussion work by Edgar Varese. Nicolas Slonimsky, who conducted that performance, reminisces about the event with David Cloud of KPFK. Recorded on March 6, 1973. Varese's music was one of the first pieces in Western Classical music history performed solely on percussion instruments. Using a variety of conventional (snare drum, bass drum) and unconventional sources (sirens, Lion's roar), the m...
Keywords: Interview; New Music; Orchestral Music; Edgar Varese
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