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Title Centre and periphery, roots and exile : interpreting the music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress / Friedemann Sallis, Robin Elliott, and Kenneth DeLong, editors ; with assistance from Aaron Dalton
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2011]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 461 pages) : music
Contents István Anhalt : a character sketch / John Beckwith -- Kurtág, as I know him / Gergely Szokolay -- "A kind of musical autobiography" : reading traces in Sándor Veress's Orbis tonorum / Claudio Veress -- Of the centre, periphery; exile, liberation; home and the self / István Anhalt -- István Anhalt's Kingston triptych / Robin Elliott -- István Anhalt's The tents of Abraham : where music cannot heal, let it be restored / William Benjamin -- Which displacement? : tracing exile in the postwar compositions of István Anhalt and Mátyás Seiber / Florian Scheding -- Letters to America / Rachel Beckles Willson -- Roots and routes : travel and translation in István Anhalt's operas / Gordon E. Smith -- Le fonds István Anhalt (MUS 164) à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada : auto-construction du compositeur et rôle du lieu dans son œuvre / Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor -- Sewing earth to sky : István Anhalt and the pedagogy of transformation / Austin Clarkson -- György Kurtág's Játékok : a "voyage" into the child's musical mind / Stefano Melis -- Arracher la figure au figuratif : la musique vocale de György Kurtág / Alvaro Oviedo -- Dirges and ditties : György Kurtág's latest settings of poetry by Anna Akhmatova / Julia Galieva-Szokolay -- Interpreting György Kurtág and George Crumb : through the looking glass / Dina Lentsner -- György Kurtág et Walter Benjamin : considérations sur l'aura dans la musique / Jean-Paul Olive -- What presence of the past? : artistic autobiography in György Kurtág's music / Ulrich Mosch -- "Listening to inner voices" : István Anhalt Sonance * Resonance (Welche Töne?) / Alan Gillmor -- Music written from memory in the late work of István Anhalt / Friedemann Sallis -- On doubleness and life in Canada : an interview with István Anhalt
Notes Majority of essays initially presented at the symposium Centre and periphery, roots and exile, at the University of Calgary, 22-25 January, 2008. Cf. Introd
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Most essays in English; includes 3 essays in French
Subject Anhalt, István, 1919-
Kurtág, György
Veress, Sándor, 1907-1992
SUBJECT Kurtág, György fast
Veress, Sándor, 1907-1992 fast
Subject Composers -- Hungary -- Biography
Immigrants -- History -- 20th century
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Composers
Immigrants
Music
Hungary
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Elliott, Robin, 1956-
Sallis, Friedemann
DeLong, Kenneth, 1944-
Centre and periphery, roots and exile (Conference) (2008 : University of Calgary)
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