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• Varese
  Varese

  noun

  a city in N Italy, NW of Milan.
• Varèse
  Varèse

  noun

  Edgard 1885–1965, U.S. composer, born in France.

Varese

¹ American  

[vah-re-ze, vuh-rey-zee, -see] / vɑˈrɛ zɛ, vəˈreɪ zi, -si /

noun

1. a city in N Italy, NW of Milan.

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Varèse ² American  

[vuh-reyz, -rez, va-rez] / vəˈreɪz, -ˈrɛz, vaˈrɛz /

noun

1. Edgard 1885–1965, U.S. composer, born in France.

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Varese ¹ British  

/ vaˈreːse /

noun

1. a historic city in N Italy, in Lombardy near Lake Varese: manufacturing centre, esp for leather goods. Pop: 80 511 (2001)

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Varèse ² British  

/ væˈrɛz /

noun

1. Edgar ( d ) (ɛdɡar). 1883–1965, US composer, born in France. His works, which combine extreme dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques, include Ionisation (1931) and Poème électronique (1958)

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The show, which is deftly curated by Federico Varese and Jessica Douthwaite, brings together an array of personal possessions, alongside annotated manuscripts, field notes, family photographs, school reports, sketches and correspondence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

More than 200 firefighters responded to emergencies in the regional capital of Milan, Varese, near the Malpensa airport, Lecco, near Lake Como, Sondrio, located in the Alps, and Bergamo.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

Awards: Varese said that some film schools “tell you that the only path to success is to have an Oscar in your hand.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

“This was about rationalizing the costs and avoiding waste,” said Marco Cambielli, a gastroenterologist who heads an association of doctors and dentists in the city of Varese.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2020

He came to this country when he was twelve, from the town of Gallarate, province of Varese, in northern Italy.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Later enlarged, it became the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble and Chamber Players and promoted a wide range of new and recent percussion music by Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Cowell, Kraft and many others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022

Sachs wrote a biography of Henry Cowell, who was part of a circle of experimental composers with Varèse, and whose brooding Sinfonietta follows “Octandre.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

When you start talking to her, she tells you about when Varèse came to dinner, and when she sang the Verdi Requiem conducted by Toscanini.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2020

“My introduction to the use of electronics outside of dance or pop music came with the Miles Davis of ‘Bitches Brew’ and later when I started getting into Edgard Varèse and Karlheinz Stockhausen.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2017

Morris, for his part, doesn’t see this lineup as a diversion for an eclectic festival that has long made room for jazz, including a 1962 performance of Edgard Varèse by the great Eric Dolphy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2017