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[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

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