You know you're in trouble with an American work from 1961 when the composer begins his notes for the premiere with the sentence "The basic row is proclaimed in the very opening bars of the introduction." With serialism as dead as Communism -- think of Elliott Carter as American music's equivalent of Fidel Castro -- the whole idea of a basic row ...
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