Andrew & Gail Jennings

The bogeyman cometh

by James Leonard

posted 2/1/2003

Karlheinz Stockhausen: the name itself is enough to terrify even the most hardened lover of contemporary music. Stockhausen — the composer who gave the world a piece for four shortwave radios, another for string quartet and four helicopters, and a gigantic cycle of seven full-length operas (not yet finished) based on a book he claims he received from

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