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Two Novellas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Nikolai Karetnikov
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Before they performed my ballet Vanina Vanini in 1961, the renowned Bolshoi Theatre orchestra had never played any music that had been written in the 12-note system.

There was a lot of tension at the first rehearsal. The musicians neither understood or accepted the music. Their heads turned in bewilderment every time a phrase was taken up by a different instrument to the one that had begun it. It gradually dawned on me, and the musicians themselves, that they were simply incapable of playing the piece.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 173: Soviet Issue , June 1990 , pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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References

1 Antonio Emmanuilovich Spadavecchia (1907–1988) wrote mainly operettas. (tr.)

2 Karetnikov uses the ugly Soviet abbreviation for ‘organisation secretary’ with deliberate irony. (tr.)