davisonj@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (John M Davison) (10/11/90)
I've seen it in print a lot, but I've never actually heard anyone pronounce "Iannis Xenakis." Would someone please pronounce this for me? -davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu
resmgt04@spacm1.uucp (10/11/90)
In article <9010101914.AA29164@en.ecn.purdue.edu>, davisonj@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (John M Davison) writes: > I've seen it in print a lot, but I've never actually heard anyone > pronounce "Iannis Xenakis." Would someone please pronounce this for me? > Okay - how's that? Just kidding - I think it goes "Yonnis Zenakis". -- Bill Robertson "Lots of people can sing louder and longer than Elvis, too, but who cares?" Eval Knievel
td@alice.att.com (Tom Duff) (10/11/90)
davisonj@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (John M Davison) writes: > I've seen it in print a lot, but I've never actually heard anyone >pronounce "Iannis Xenakis." Would someone please pronounce this for me? yah'niss zeh-nah'kiss (i.e. all vowels short, accents on penults.) A Greek might make the i's long rather than short. In any case, his first and last names rhyme.
mrsmith@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Mr. P. H. Smith) (10/11/90)
In article <9010101914.AA29164@en.ecn.purdue.edu> davisonj@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (John M Davison) writes: > > I've seen it in print a lot, but I've never actually heard anyone >pronounce "Iannis Xenakis." Would someone please pronounce this for me? > >-davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu The name of this Major-domo of highly abstract musical generating and organizing techniques is sometimes pronounced ... (YAWN-iss Ze-KNOCK-iss) by English-speaking music professors and students. I have no idea how he himself pronounces it. (Maybe eye-ANN-eess SHEN-a-kiss? zuh-NAY-kiss? -- who knows?) Paul Smith mrsmith@ai.mit.edu
rchrd@well.sf.ca.us (Richard Friedman) (10/15/90)
davisonj@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (John M Davison) writes: > I've seen it in print a lot, but I've never actually heard anyone >pronounce "Iannis Xenakis." Would someone please pronounce this for me? At IRCAM in Paris I heard the staff refer to him as merely "Dr. X", pronounced "ecks". Actually, its "Zen-ak-kiss" or "ks'zen-ak-kiss" approximately. -- /\=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=/\ \/Richard Friedman (415)540-5216 | rchrd@well.sf.ca.us \/ /\Pacific-Sierra Rsrch (Berkeley) | or well!rchrd@apple.com /\ \/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\/