Interviews with American Composers

Barney Childs in Conversation

Barney Childs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2022 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04399-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Barney Childs (1926-2000) was an experimental music composer, poet, and educator. His compositions included chamber music and music for keyboards. Virginia Anderson maintained the Experimental Music Catalogue and was the editor of the Journal of Experimental Music Studies. She died in 2021.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Co-Autor	William Albright
Einführung	Virginia Anderson
Mitarbeit	Kommentare: Robert Fink
Zusatzinfo	1 music example
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	853 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-10	0-252-04399-5 / 0252043995
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04399-4 / 9780252043994
Zustand	Neuware