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Tuesday night the L.A. Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series brought works by three acknowledged masters of post-WWII avant-garde music (and one fantastic runner up) to the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Most of these pieces were older than your dad, and their influence on all the greats of modern music, including everybody from Philip Glass to Radiohead to Brian Eno to the Beatles, is an established fact. Yet hearing these composers in the squeaky-clean Disney Hall felt like seeing a whore in church.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, the dude who stands between Lenny Bruce and W.C. Fields on the Sgt. Pepper album cover, would have turned 80 this summer. But while London and New York and even Omaha, Nebraska have thrown events celebrating the life and music of this pioneer composer, "the father of electronic music," Los Angeles has yet to plug in, tune up, and tone out in his honor.