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From: gmk@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Classical Query
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 12:34:00 EST
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Nf-From: uicsl!gmk    Nov  8 11:34:00 1984

> /**** uicsl:net.music.classical / paul@phs /  3:08 pm  Oct 28, 1984 ****/
> As long as we're into difficult queries: This one's somewhat embarrassing,
> but what the heck. While watching a portion (I swear, just a portion,
> and only because my wife turned it on) of the Miss America pageant,
> namely, the talent competition, I heard an interesting piece performed
> by Miss NY. She, a (graduate?) student at, I think, Juilliard, played
> a piano piece which I would term modern; which was very fast; which was
> (I think) by an Argentinian composer; and which had a title involving
> "Dance(s)" and "Trocadero(s)" -- I think. It's been a while, and the MAP
> doesn't emphasize such details much. Can anyone crack this one?
> 
> Regards, Paul Dolber @ DUMC (...duke!phs!paul).
> /* ---------- */

Although I'm not familiar with the piece you describe, I would guess
that it's by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera.
He's dabbled a lot in 12-tone stuff. I was introduced to his music
through Emerson, Lake, and Palmer who recorded a synthesized version
of the last movement of his first piano concerto.
I liked it so well that I hunted down the original--an old
RCA recording with Erich Leinsdorf/Boston and a Portuguese pianist
whose name escapes me at the moment.
I highly recommend this recording for anyone interested in
Ginastera's music and also for the persistent critics of
20th Century music.

Gary Koob
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