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Hans Werner Henze steht eine weitere Kunstlerfreundschaft im Zentrum des Aufsatzes von Siegfried Mauser, der mit der Feststellung beginnt, dass das Image Hartmanns als bedeutender Forderer der Neuen Musik den Blick auf sein kompositorisches Werk verdecke und die Bedeutung und der Rang seiner Werke noch nicht ins rechte Bewusstsein geruckt sei--was die von Blumroder im vorausgehenden Aufsatz zitierten Komponistenantworten eindringlich belegen.
They invited her to audition and she made her Covent Garden debut the following year in the premiere of an opera called We Come to the River by the German composer,
Hans Werner Henze.
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Hans Werner Henze uses molto vibrato and tremolo often, especially in El Cimarron and Wir kommen am Fluss.
True, Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is always a draw, but to couple that with a long piece by
Hans Werner Henze was a brave decision which proved to be a winner.
So pivoting either side of a sanguine Strauss waltz, Voices Of Spring, which inspired conductor Vasily Petrenko into virtual-reality Tower Ballroom mode, was one of the greatest works of all time ( Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring) pulling against a contender in the greatest waste of time category (the now 80- year-old German bad boy
Hans Werner Henze's Ode To The West Wind, inspired by the Shelley poem of the same name).
Gay modernist composers include Pierre Boulez, the most "killer" serialist of all; the indeterminist John Cage; Henry Cowell, promulgator of the tone cluster;
Hans Werner Henze, the superb eclectic; and many others.
Though Volpe's Met did stage the occasional new opera (not always by the best or most stage-savvy composers), masterworks by Michael Tippett,
Hans Werner Henze, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen were ignored, and no stream was developed to encourage new American works.
It is disappointing that his copious writings in other genres--the books of poetry, his wide-ranging literary essays, his work as an editor, the many libretti for
Hans Werner Henze and other composers--attract scarcely more than a sidelong glance.
His concert (January 27) contrasted two Germanic works--the Tenth Symphony (1999-2002) of
Hans Werner Henze and the Second of Johannes Brahms.
A strong advocate of new music, Cortese has conducted more than 150 premieres and has worked in direct collaboration with composers Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas Foss,
Hans Werner Henze and Ralph Shapey.
Also present were recipients Ellsworth Kelly, 77, who won in painting, Richard Rogers, 67, in architecture, and
Hans Werner Henze, 74, in music.