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Author Ford, Andrew, 1957-

Title Composer to composer : conversations about contemporary music / Andrew Ford ; photographs by Malcolm Crowthers & Belinda Webster
Published Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 1997

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 MELB  780.92 For/Ctc 1993  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Preface Introduction - Gentility and apocalypse / Elliott Carter - A very magical thing / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - Creating the spirit / Pierre Boulez - Meale in Mullumbimby / Richard Meale - As simple as that / Peter Sculthorpe - Just a composer / Kaija Saariaho' - The reticene of intuition / Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Opening and closing doors / Steve Reich - The silences / David Lumsdaine - Marx and Janet Jackson / Louis Andriessen - Maybe I'm completely crackers ... / John Tavener - Silencing the bronchitics / Ross Edwards - The unlevel playing-field / Moya Henderson - Seeing both sides / Judith Weir - A man without imagination / Franco Donatoni - The hand of fate / Sofia Gubaidulina - A composer like the Brahms / Alexander Goehr - Constellations / Karlheinz Stockhausen - Socratic faxes / Brian Ferneyhough - No beginning and no end ... / Liza Lim - Flying alone / Nigel Butterley - Illegal harmony / John Cage - Forbidden colours / Gerard Brophy - Jerry Lee Lewis plays Mozart / Michael Nyman - The fast lane / Barry Conyngham - Nobody does exactly what I do / Richard Rodney Bennett - Making an impact / Roger Smalley - Hanky-panky in Tooting Bec / Poul Ruders - Dropping out / Martin Wesley-Smith - Pastel pumps / Sir Michael Tippett Glossary of musical terms
Summary Summary: Interviews with 30 composers from Australia, Great Britain and the United States about what they compose and their views on 20th century music
Notes Includes index
English
Subject Composers -- Interviews.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
ISBN 0868066311
1863734430 (paperback: Allen & Unwin)