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[Robin Landseadel]

Nicholas Slonimsky's "Lexicon of Musical Invective":

	One musical curiosity that was not destined to become an
	immortal masterpiece was the Network of Noises by the Italian
	futurist Luigi Russolo. When he conducted it in Milan on April
	21, 1914, the excitable audience actually threatened bodily
	harm to the futurist offenders. A skirmish followed, as a result of
	which eleven members of the audience had to be hospitalized,
	but the futurists suffered only minor bruises. Who remembers
	now these excitements? The Italian futurists seem to have a
	brilliant future behind them.

On Dec 26, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> ... any recommendations before I spend it recklessly?  Thanks ...