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currentmusicology-5189	Hoover, Elizabeth	Variations V: "Escaping Stagnation" Through Movement of Signification	2010	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8096	357	54	However, multiple collaborators contributed their electronic designs to make performances of Variations V possible. The purpose of this article is to move the discussion of Variations V away from pure descriptive accounts-whether historical or in regards to performance practice-and towards an understanding of its cultural mean­ ing, the importance of which was ascribed by the New York Times critic Allen Hughes only one day after the premiere performance: In a sense Variations V was a monumental symphony of the visual and aural banalities of our age and as such was highly successful (1965).	cache/currentmusicology-5189.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5189.txt