Occasional pieces
Subtitle: writings and interviews, 1952-2013
By: Christian Wolff ; with a foreword by George E. Lewis
Contributors: Lewis, George, 1952- writer of foreword
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780190222895; 9780190614706
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Composers; Interviews; History and criticism; Music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / George E. Lewis; title: Author's preface; title: (One of) Four musicians at work (1952); title: On Webern (1955); title: New and electronic music (1958); title: On form (1960); title: Questions (1964); title: Electricity and music (1968); title: Interview with Victor Schonfield (1969); title: Fragments to make up an interview (1970-71); title: For Merce (1975); title: Conversation with Walter Zimmermann (1976); title: Frederic Rzewski, The people united will never be defeated (1978); title: On political texts and new music (1980); title: On the death of Cornelius Cardew (1981); title: On notation (1984); title: Open to whom and to what (1987); title: Morton Feldman memorial text (1987); title: On Morton Feldman's Piano piece 1952 (1988, 1995); title: On Morton Feldman's music (1990); title: What is our work? (1990); title: On Charles Ives (1990); title: Keith Rowe, A dimension of perfectly ordinary reality (1990); title: On Dieter Schnebel's Marsyas (1990); title: Floating rhythm and experimental percussion (1990); title: Quiet music (1991); title: Interview with Cole Gagne (1992); title: Interview with Markus Trunk (1992); title: Briefly on Cornelius Cardew and John Cage (1992); title: John Cage memorial text (1992); title: Preface to John Cage, Morton Feldman: Radio happenings I-V (1993); title: Sketch of a statement (1993); title: Music, work, experiment, politics (1995); title: Letter to Suzanne Josek (1996); title: Thinking of David Tudor (1997); title: Most material: Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost (1997); title: Frederic Rzewski and his piano music (2001); title: Merce Cunningham and CW music (2001); title: Feldman's String quartet no. 2 (2002); title: Earle Brown : chamber music (2004); title: Some notes on Charles Ives and politics (2004); title: On day-to-day composing work (2004); title: Remembering Grete Sultan (2005); title: On music with Cunningham events (2008); title: Some recollections of Arthur Russell (2009); title: On verbal notation (2009); title: Experimental music around 1950 and some consequences and causes (2009); title: Interview with James Saunders (2009); title: Crossings of experimental music and Greek tragedy (2010); title: About Merce (2010); title: What can I still say about John Cage? (2012); title: Thinking yet again about John Cage (2012); title: The first performance of Erik Satie's Vexations (2012); title: Robyn Schulkowsky's worlds of percussion (2013); title: Selected program notes.