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Music
Boretz, Benjamin | March 29, 1965 issue

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The younger generation of the U.S. composers has already given some striking evidence of its capacity and determination to carry on the most challenging and important work of its "middle-generation" predecessors. To begin with, one finds among its members a remarkably unequivocal conviction that musical composition is, above all, an act of thought, capable of making a significant contribution to that crucial area of the 20th-century intellectual mainstream that Hermann Weyl described as "the rational subjugation of the unbounded."

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COMPOSITION (Music); MUSICIANS; MUSIC; ARTISTS; WEYL, Hermann, 1885-1955; UNITED States
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