Talking music : conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and five generations of American experimental composers

Book 1995

William Duckworth, a cutting-edge composer and musicologist himself, spent more than a decade visiting the leading lights of new American music, beginning with the music's spiritual godfather, John Cage, and progressing through the latest innovators. His goal was to let the composers talk about their work in their own words; to show how their personal lives and struggles to create their art colored their output; to discuss seriously their aesthet...

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ISBN:

9780028708232
0028708237

Description:

xii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Interviews with John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Milton Babbitt, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Glenn Branca, and John Zorn
Includes index

Contents:

Experimentalists. 1. John Cage (born Los Angeles, 1912; d. New York, 1992). 2. Conlon Nancarrow (born Texarkana, Arkansas, 1912). 3. Milton Babbitt (born Philadelphia, 1916). 4. Lou Harrison (born Portland, Oregon, 1917)

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94041315

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58289

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