Babbitt & Boulez
The poetics of the music of Pierre Boulez, I contend, are close to the development we see from Poe through Boudelaire and Mallarme to Valery. Boulez most likely began with an interest in having his techniques have nothing to …
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Brokeback Mountain & Suddenly Last Summer
Or....Love and Death, American Style Someone has to point out the parallels between Brokeback Mountain and Tennesee William's Suddenly Last Summer. Around the time of Wuorinen's *Brokeback Mountain* premiere the …
Jottings
We see comprehension and we see incomprehension. We love the former and are impatient with the latter. However, give incomprehension the time and space to ripen into something interesting. ///// Death: Mastering the trope …
Nature and Custom
21st Century Harmonic Thinking I think of the 3rd structural key as the one the composer elects, while the 2nd structural key (dominant) is "natural", because it is found on every time scale including the smallest--the …
The Captor's Image, by Basil Dufallo
In Mr. Dufallo's book we see how colonialism creates coherence in what was polyglot. Greek culture was a great mishmash of its own colonial movements. The Roman conquest of Greece created the coherence of Greek art as we …
Unexpected Reunion
Read in German Unverhofftes Wiedersehen/Unexpected Reunion William Anderson's musical treatment of the story by Johann Peter Hebel adapted by the composer from the translation by John Hibberd ------"The most wonderful …