More thoughts to follow. One of the most influential and controversial composers of the 20th Century has passed. You may not have loved his music, but we’re all poorer for living in an age of market-tested platitude-music without his uncompromising intensity to keep possibility alive.
Here is the story from the New York Times…
huh?
Feldman…definately
Cage…maybe
Cowell…yes
Lou Harrison…yes
Partch…yes
Tenney…yes
but….”Darmstink Delusional” Slockhausen??? hmmmm
“…By the 1990s, however, Mr. Stockhausen’s early luster was fading. Roger Scruton, a British philosopher and musicologist, derided him as “a pseudo-intellectual hippie-mystic with a liberating gift for creating utter nonsense….” hmmm…