Perspectives of New Music articles from January 1998

Perspectives of New Music archives from January 1998

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA: "MY DESIRE IS ALWAYS TO REBEL, TO SWIM AGAINST THE STREAM!".(composer)(Interview)
January 1, 1998... VERA LUKOMSKY [*] INTERVIEW CONDUCTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN THIS INTERVIEW with Sofia Gubaidulina was conducted in London in November 1996, on the eve of the concert of her music at Queen Elizabeth Hall, which the London...

TRANSMISSION, INTERPRETATION, COLLABORATION--A PERFORMER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE LANGUAGE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH SOPHIE CHERRIER.(Interview)
January 1, 1998... CONTEMPORARY MUSIC is an expression which communicates in a language different from traditional classical music. It is more explosive, more theatrical, more gestural. The phrases are no longer singing melodies," [1] explains Sophie Cherrier. As...

A SEVENTIETH-BIRTHDAY FESTSCHRIFT FOR KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (PART ONE)(GUEST EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... As a name, I am a myth. There is a body, and this body has a label, a name. When this body is no more, then this name will be completely transformed into a myth with all the things which have crystallized around it, including many opinions and...

ORIENTATION TO HERMANN HESSE.(correspondence with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S artistic identity emerged during, and is rooted in, the postwar period between 1948 and 1950. In these years he was creatively active chiefly with literary work (the earliest poem, according to currently available...

THROUGH THE SENSORY LOOKING-GLASS: THE AESTHETIC AND SERIAL FOUNDATIONS OF GESANG DER JUNGLINGE.(musical composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... GESANG DER JUNGLINGE is an emblematic composition, both for its composer and for electronic music. In spite of certain bitter opposition due to the use of a child's voice, at the time of its premiere this work gave the feeling that the phase of...

ON THE SERIAL SHAPING OF STOCKHAUSEN'S GRUPPEN FUR DREI OR CHESTER.(musical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... PRELIMINARY REMARKS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S COMPOSITION Gruppen fur drei Orchester (Groups for Three Orchestras, 1955--57) belongs among the first works of the New Music after 1950 in which space, in the sense of a surrounding, was...

THE TRANSLATION OF RHYTHM INTO PITCH IN STOCKHAUSEN'S KLAVIERSTUCK XI.(musical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN'S Klavierstuck XI has the unique distinction of being one of the most often discussed yet least-well-understood compositions of the twentieth century. It is celebrated for its "open form," in which the nineteen component...

EXTENDING CONTACTS: THE CONCEPT OF UNITY IN COMPUTER MUSIC.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... 1. INTRODUCTION IN 1962, Karlheinz Stockhausen's "The Concept of Unity in Electronic Music" appeared in the very first edition of Perspectives of New Music (Stockhausen 1962). In this article, Stockhausen reflects on the techniques that he...

KARLHEINZ IN CALIFORNIA: A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE.(musical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 1998... THE SEMINAR AND ITS PARTICIPANTS FOR APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS during the academic year 1966-67, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was in residence at the Davis campus of the University of California, near Sacramento. During those six months...

EDITORIAL NOTES.
January 1, 1998... An Invitation Perspectives of New Music affirms its traditional commitment to composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind of contemporary music. We exclude nothing categorically--indeed, one of our traditions is...