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Wolpe's inner beauty (a response to Christopher Hasty with three entries for a Wolpe Lexicon).(Stefan Wolpe's music)(Critical Essay)

Perspectives of New Music

| June 22, 2002 | Brody, Martin | COPYRIGHT 2002 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

Connections are a great drama, because we didn't know what a dead herring has to do with an aspirin bottle once we put them next to each other.

--Stefan Wolpe

IN A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE to Wolpe, Charles Wuorinen offered a tidy summary of the elder composer's achievement:

Stefan Wolpe's insights into composition were profound and original; I am indebted to him on both counts. His "originality" lay in his special notions of musical continuity, which root in tradition but branch unexpectedly and indirectly. His "profundity" lay in his use of traditional means, values, and materials to achieve his special continuity. (1)

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