Edgard Varèse, "Ecuatorial" (1934).
>They did have an Ondes Martenot with them on stage. That isn't, as I say,
>remotely avant-garde. But it is interesting, because Ondes Martenot's are
>interesting, because the only piece of music I know about with an Ondes
>Martenot in it is Messaien's _Turangalila Symphony_, which is an incredibly
>beautiful and strange piece of music even though at times it sounds like
>the soundtrack to a particularly over-egged Star Trek (TOS) episode
>featuring lots of putrefyingly embarrassing Roddenbery-isms.
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