Music

In the extraordinary scores of George Crumb, the mind of a composer and the hand of a poet

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The music of Crumb, a true avant-gardist in an era with scarcely any avant left to garde, dispensed with classical conventions but also embraced beauty, the natural world and the unreachable realms beyond it. Through amplification and alteration, he transformed the raw materials of the orchestra — a …

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