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From: mrsmith@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Mr. P. H. Smith)
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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce Iannis Xenakis' name?
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Date: 11 Oct 90 16:31:30 GMT
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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