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This journal "Source: Music of the Avant-garde" was and remains a
seminal source for materials on the heyday of experimental music
and arts. Conceived in 1966 and published to 1973, it included some
of the most important composers and artists of the time: John Cage,
Harry Partch, David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Robert Ashley, Pauline
Oliveros, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, and many
others. A pathbreaking publication, "Source" documented crucial
changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer
music, notation and event scores, theater and installations,
intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of
composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music.
In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to
survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded
freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them
under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though
unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had
gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly
Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others. Virginia Anderson
edits the first published collection of these conversations. She
pairs each interview with a contextual essay by a contemporary
expert that shows how the composer's discussion with Childs fits
into his life and work. Together, the interviewees cover a broad
range of ideas and concerns around topics like education, notation,
developments in electronic music, changing demands on performers,
and tonal music. Innovative and revealing, Interviews with American
Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music
at an important crossroads.
Here's what to expect when you read this book. Roy Fugazy getting
beat up on the Breakers Golf Course in Florida while playing golf
with Larry and American Airlines Executives. Having the Truck
Driver who is delivering the luggage to a Westinghouse Group,
ending up in jail in Arizona for drinking a beer at lunch. Rescuing
2,000 Grumman employees from Iran when the war broke out in 1979.
Having a friend trying to break down the bedroom door in Jamaica to
get into the room and go to sleep. Arriving in Bermuda with a Group
of 200 people and finding the hotel does not have any rooms
available, even though they were confirmed. Having a cat throw up
on a customer's food tray on a flight to Florida. Getting a
$250,000 Grant from Hillary Clinton for the Long Island
Philharmonic, by just asking. Finding out his first Granddaughter
was born as he was boarding a flight home from St. Louis. Leaving
his wife at the airport in London for a flight to New York on the
Concorde and finding out the flight is overbooked. These are just
some of the Travel stories, all true, that you will find in this
book. Hope you enjoy the ride.
Here's what to expect when you read this book. Roy Fugazy getting
beat up on the Breakers Golf Course in Florida while playing golf
with Larry and American Airlines Executives. Having the Truck
Driver who is delivering the luggage to a Westinghouse Group,
ending up in jail in Arizona for drinking a beer at lunch. Rescuing
2,000 Grumman employees from Iran when the war broke out in 1979.
Having a friend trying to break down the bedroom door in Jamaica to
get into the room and go to sleep. Arriving in Bermuda with a Group
of 200 people and finding the hotel does not have any rooms
available, even though they were confirmed. Having a cat throw up
on a customer's food tray on a flight to Florida. Getting a
$250,000 Grant from Hillary Clinton for the Long Island
Philharmonic, by just asking. Finding out his first Granddaughter
was born as he was boarding a flight home from St. Louis. Leaving
his wife at the airport in London for a flight to New York on the
Concorde and finding out the flight is overbooked. These are just
some of the Travel stories, all true, that you will find in this
book. Hope you enjoy the ride.
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