The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music - Hardcover
by B疝int Andr疽 Varga (Author)
All-new interviews with 33 of the world's leading composers--from Adams and Crumb to Guba?ulina and Rihm--give unique insights into the creative process.
B疝int Andr疽 Varga is perhaps the world's most respected interviewer of living composers. For The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste: Reflections on New Music, Varga has confronted thirty-three composers with quotations carefully chosen to elicit their thoughts about an issue that is crucial for any serious creative artist: How can one find courage to deal with the sometimes tyrannical expectations of the outside world? The result is an imaginary roundtable at which we encounter fresh, revealing, previously unpublished statements from such world-renowned composers as John Adams, Friedrich Cerha, George Crumb, Sofia Guba?ulina, Georg Friedrich Haas, Giya Kancheli, Gygy Kurt疊, Helmut Lachenmann, Libby Larsen, Robert Morris, and Wolfgang Rihm. Also represented are composers who are becoming more prominent with the passing years -- Chaya Czernowin, Pascal Dusapin, and Rebecca Saunders -- as well as conductor-composer Michael Gielen, festival director Nicholas Kenyon, and music critics Paul Griffiths and Arnold Whittall. In The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste, composers and other insightful individuals comment on choices made, traps avoided, unforeseen consequences, proud accomplishments, occasional regrets: the whole range of experiences central to artistic creativity. B疝int Andr疽 Varga isthe acclaimed author of Gygy Kurt疊: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages; Three Questions for 65 Composers; and From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir (all available from University of Rochester Press).Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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