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The premiere of Dominic Muldowney's multi-track violin concerto takes place at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on March 17, 1992. After 15 minutes the Royal Philharmonic divides into two and Libor Pesek, the orchestra's music director, and Dominic Muldowney conduct at different speeds. They use radio earpieces; the beats rarely coincide and the solo line moves from one ensemble beat to the other. The cross-tempi involve 133.5 beats per minute in one orchestra and 144 in the other. They create interference patterns which should produce the aural illusion of a third rhythm. The musical ear cannot focus on more than one line at a time. Aural scanning, switching attention continually between lines, can be developed.
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There are few reliable facts about the life of Johannes Ockeghem, who died in 1497. It is possible that he studied with the composer Gilles Binchois, and it seems that he was a very good bass singer. He became principal singer-chaplain at the court of Charles VII of France in 1450, and seems to have held this post for 47 years. He was highly respected, and his death was marked with a Latin lament by Erasmus. Contemporary writers mention large amounts of music composed by Ockeghem which have now been lost.
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The Barbican Art Gallery in London, England, is currently holding an exhibition entitled 'Diaghilev: Creator of the Ballets Russes.' This looks at his early work as curator of exhibitions, founder and editor of 'The World of Art' magazine and promoter of concerts and operas. The exhibition is interesting in itself, even though it ends with the outbreak of the first world war. It is disappointing that it is not being backed up with related concerts in the Barbican Centre's programme.
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