ISSUE V - FEBRUARY 2011

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Quartetto di Nuova Musica, 1965

The Birth of a Masterpiece

Franco Sciannameo

When the audience demanded that Scelsi’s piece be repeated, he was beside himself; for him it must have been an experience just short of apotheosis. For us, as we rearranged chairs and music stands for the encore, it was like entering a new era: the twenty-first century.