Thursday, April 10, 2008

Surround sound


The Bavarian Radio Symphony calls off its premiere of Dror Feiler's "Halat Hisar" ("State of Siege") for fear that performing it would be "adverse to the health" of the musicians. "The 20-minute composition starts with the rattle of machine-gun fire and gets louder," The Guardian reports:

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2271922,00.html