Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Interviews with American composers : Barney Childs in conversation / edited by Virginia Anderson.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Item Status

Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents William Albright (1944-1998) -- Robert Ashley (1930-2014) -- Larry Austin (1930-2018) -- William Bolcom (b. 1938) -- Harold Budd (1936-2020) -- Joel Chadabe (1938-2021) -- Charles Dodge (b. 1942) -- William Hellermann (1939-2017) -- Sydney Hodkinson (b. 1934) -- Ben Johnston (1926-2019) -- Daniel Lentz (b. 1942) -- Alvin Lucier (b. 1931) -- Donald Martino (1931-2005) -- Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995) -- Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) -- Loren Rush (b. 1935) -- Michael Sahl (1934-2018) -- Peter Westergaard (1931-2019) -- Olly Wilson (1937-2018) -- Phil Winsor (1938-2012) -- Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Charles Wuorinen (1938-2020).
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Composers -- United States -- Interviews.
Composers.
United States.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject MUSIC / General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Added Author Childs, Barney, interviewer.
Anderson, Virginia (Musicologist), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Interviews with American composers Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2022 9780252043994 (DLC) 2021024456
ISBN 9780252052927 electronic book
0252052927 electronic book
9780252043994 hardcover
0252043995