Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uicsl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!gmk From: gmk@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Classical Query Message-ID: <22000001@uicsl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 12:34:00 EST Article-I.D.: uicsl.22000001 Posted: Thu Nov 8 12:34:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 09:29:16 EST References: <956@phs.UUCP> Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:phs:-95600:uicsl:22000001:000:1446 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 ...!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsg!gmk