There are two string quartets, Op. 2 and Op. 3, plus two versions of Op. 1 (for nine strings): a performance by Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble and a multitracked "prototype version".
Symphonie pour un homme seul (1952; later called Collage) was performed to Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry's composition of the same name and was the first performance in the United States of musique concrèt, or music constructed from tape-recorded environmental sounds.
The year 1958 saw the first performance of his Muzyka żałobna (Musique funèbre, or "Music of mourning"), which was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók, but which took the composer four years to complete; this work brought international recognition, the annual ZKP prize and the International Rostrum of Composers prize in 1959.
Shortly after her baptism by fire, she took a backpacking excursion through Europe and wound up doing some impromptu street performances during Fete de la Musique in Paris and then in various other cities across Europe while hanging out with the juggling community.
Performer: Le Miroir de Musique.
But these were not pieces played on pop music stations; they were initially known only to the followers of the avant garde: those who read cut-up novels, collected LPs of musique concrète and attended performances of experimental theatre, happenings, expanded cinema and psychedelic all‑nighters in hippy hangouts.
"MAKE MUSIC NEW YORK" The boundaries between classical and world music — and between amateurs and professionals — will collapse on the first day of summer, as a citywide festival of free performances (inspired by Paris's "Fête de la Musique") gets under way.
Premiere of student composition "La Musique" by Connor Harris '16 (performed by Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum).
Focus on genres of technological music, including electroacoustic, musique concrete, synthetic, tape, electronica, and interactive performance, as well as sound design in visual media.
Musique pour Supermarché was created for a planned performance at the "Supermarché" art exhibition.
