About this title: Always an advocate of craft, Leslie Bassett demonstrated his own solid workmanship in the compositions presented here. Although none are avant-garde or especially innovative, they are representative of the best academic music produced in the mid-twentieth century. Variations for Orchestra, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1966, is serially derived, but not strictly dependent on the row. Like his contemporary Elliott Carter, Bassett took what he could use from twelve-tone theory, but composed intuitively and with considerable freedom. The liberating influences of Berg and Varèse are strong in ...
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