MUSIC REVIEW

Composer Xenakis still out there

The International Contemporary Ensemble (seen here in rehearsal) played with polish and intensity.

By David Weininger

Globe Correspondent / April 21, 2009

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At a time when many 20th-century composers have lost their aura of radicalism and begun to seem approachable, Iannis Xenakis resists the trend. Xenakis - who was born in Romania to Greek parents and died in 2001 at the age of 78 - was an engineer by training, and he created a compositional technique based on abstruse mathematical theories. Whether ... (Full article: 441 words)