Review: Serenity in this 'Stimmung' soothes far-out sounds of the '60s

The vocal group Voxnova covers one of the more unusual works of the psychedelic decade with grace and beauty as part of the Jacaranda music series. In Karlheinz Stockhausen's wondrous, strange "Stimmung," six singers sit in a circle, produce otherworldly harmonics, evoke the names of Aztec gods, intone an eccentric hallelujah chorus and interrupt transcendental meditation reciting texts with graphic sexual imagery. There was nothing like it when the visionary German composer wrote "Stimmung" (wh...

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