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21 January 2007
Today is the 70th anniversary of the first performance of Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste (I, II, III, IV).
MSPC is a wonderland: the "fearful symmetry" of the first movement; the infectious, propulsive theme of the second; the hair-raising atmospherics in the third; the unexpectedly joyous dancing in the fourth.
Allen Ginsberg claimed to have written a poem (don't know which one) about a guy he would see now and then on the subway, and was moved by his noble expression. Turned out later to be Bartok, presumably on his way to teach at Columbia.
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