Icons of Modernism 1st and 2nd December 2005



ICONS OF MODERNISM
Rarely has musical composition raised such impassioned debate as during the notorious Darmstadt Summer School in the late 1950s. Does the music from that period still sound as vital / as ground-breaking / as utopian as it did when first written? How has the vision of such figures as Boulez, Stockhausen and Nono influenced later generations of composers? Come to the University of Manchester for our mini-festival to find out more...
Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall,
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama,
The University of Manchester,
Coupland Street,
Manchester, M13 9PL.
Box office: 0161 275 8951