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Article: Mere complexities. (Complexity Forum)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- January 1, 1993
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Some years ago, a few days after a concert in which I had included Luciano Berio's splendid Sequenza IV, I received in the mail a polite note from a member of the audience. I have the letter still. In it my listener suggests that I include in future programs "some sort of warning concerning the complexity of pieces such as Mr. Berio's" so that people who do not wish to be "subjected to such offensive events may leave the room."
I never followed through on this suggestion, but it has often occurred to me that it would be fascinating to poll an audience to determine the perceived complexity index for each piece on a program. The range of indices, I should say, ...
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... ... Melbourne, performed a much more unusual program, including the Eight Preludes of Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio's ``Sequenza IV,'' Beethoven's Six Bagatelles, Op. 126, Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata and a 1990 sonata by Australian composer Carl ...
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