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Sinfónica de Minería

Stockhausen and his thrilling delirium: quartet for strings and four helicopters!

Chronicle of the day Stockhausen flew a string quartet When it was announced in 1995 that Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) had written a quartet for strings and four helicopters with pilots, we all thought it was a joke. Rather, a matter of conceptual art. Of discourse. That kind of monumental and nonsensical musical works [...]