Interviews with American Composers Barney Childs in Conversation |
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Author:
| Childs, Barney |
Editor:
| Anderson, Virginia |
Introduction by:
| Anderson, Virginia |
Commentaries by:
| Anderson, Virginia Fink, Robert Holm-Hudson, Kevin Clark, Thomas S. Magee, Gayle Sherwood Haefeli, Sara White, Frances Pritchett, James Arms, Jay M. Headlam, Dave Schneider, John Kuivila, Ronald Quaglia, Bruce Haskins, Rob Fillion, Michelle Dempster, Stuart Lewis, David Neal Perry, Jeffrey Maxile, Horace J. Gena, Peter |
As told to:
| Albright, William Ashley, Robert Austin, Larry Bolcom, William Budd, Harold Chadabe, Joel Dodge, Charles Hellermann, William Hodkinson, Sydney Johnston, Ben Lentz, Daniel Lucier, Alvin Martino, Donald Martirano, Salvatore Morris, Robert Mumma, Gordon Rush, Loren Sahl, Michael Westergaard, Peter Wilson, Olly Winsor, Phil Wolff, Christian Wuorinen, Charles |
Series title: | Music in American Life Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-252-05292-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2022 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.