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Date:
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:20:16 -0500
Subject:
Re: "Atonal" Music
From:
Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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I wrote:

>A look at the Boston Symphony programs for the forthcoming 2000-2001
>season reveals that 29 0f the 63 compositions are from the twentieth
>century, starting with Mahler's Fifth Symphony (1901).  And ending with a
>commissioned oratorio by Golivov.(spelling?).

In fact the GOLIJOV Passion According to St. Mark is a U.S. premiere, but
not a BSO commission.

SO commissions:  Corigliano Second Symphony and Tan Dun:  The Map.  There
is also a U.S.  premier of a work by Part.

Professor Bernard Chasan
Physics Department, Boston University

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