Critic’s Notebook: The music of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is cold and stern — and so hip

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Critic’s Notebook: The music of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is cold and stern — and so hip
Nine years after his death, he is being treated like a rock star. An exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center and a concert at Los Angeles State Historic Park help pay tribute to the esoteric composer. Last winter the work of avant-garde Greek composer Iannis Xenakis bled out of the concert hall and into the Drawing Center in New York. That lovely, learned show, “Iannis Xenakis: Composer …
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