Xenakis
Britishnoun
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This is no longer the uptight atmosphere where John Adams was angrily booed and where people noisily walked out as Zubin Mehta premiered major new works by Olivier Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
“I would have challenged it,” Xenakis said in an interview, referring to DeSantis’s advice about force-feeding.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2023
Gen. Stephen Xenakis, the former head of the Southeast Army Medical Command, who at the time was affiliated with Physicians for Human Rights, said he advised detainee lawyers about challenging the practice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2023
He also studied with the composer Olivier Messiaen from 1951 to ’53, whose interest in non-Western music and inspired Xenakis follow suit.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
“Greeks are like that,” the composer Iannis Xenakis said in 1967.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
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