Alex Ross: Stockhausen's "Gruppen," at Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin. (The New Yorker)

5 October 2008, 9:06 pm

For a few years in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, nearly achieved the status of a pop icon. Each new piece of his attracted crowds of critics, struggling to convey the latest cosmic splatter of pointillistically variegated sounds. A lavish recording . . .... read more

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