MacDowell Professor of Music Georg Friedrich Haas’ visceral music blends the Austrian tradition of grand orchestral statement with contemporary trends in harmonic color and microtonality, a system that divides the conventional scale of Western classical music into many more than its usual 12 semitone pitches. Critics have described his avant-garde compositions as “exploratory and uncompromising,” yet also “lush and evocative.””
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