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Invention: To Marty Boykan at 70.(Brief Article)

Perspectives of New Music

| June 22, 2000 | Child, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2000 Perspectives of New Music. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IN DIFFERENT TO FASHION, oblivious to ready-made solutions, resistant to categorization, Martin Boykan's music is a splendid standard-bearer for our embattled new music. It is music of density and precision, but also of breadth and poetry, and when he wants it to be (as in the Elegy, one of the great works of the latter twentieth century) it is deeply moving. To have been a composition student of Marty is to have learned the vital need to make every musical moment count. This is a debt that ...

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