News Summary

• This year’s Witten Days for New Chamber Music took place in the Ruhr Valley, in Germany.
• Two Iranian composers were featured; only one, Amen Feizabadi, could attend in person.
• Composers from more stable lands nursed their own fears.
• In Germany itself, neo-Nazis are gaining ground.
• The agonies of the day were only intermittently audible in the music on offer in Witten.
• The festival, which is organized by West German Radio, has been running in its current form since 1969.