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From Reflections on Schoenberg: Everything in art is uncertain and it is this very uncertainty, this very open-endedness, which is the real spur to invention and the creation of order, clarity, and inevitability. The mistake would be to believe, and continue to believe, that a prescriptive approach can remove the uncertainty of composing or that, […] From The Philly Inquirer: The board of the 111-year-old Philadelphia Orchestra voted Saturday in favor of a Chapter 11 reorganization. The claim was expected to be filed this weekend in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the orchestra was expected to list assets at several times liabilities – an equation unusual for businesses […] More from The Aesthetics of Survival, from “My Dear Igor (An Imaginary Dialogue)”: Strav: It seems to me, Herr Schoenberg, you make everything so complicated. You are psychologizing and I have no taste for psychology. To me, the world is ordered according to the immutable laws of the Supreme Creator, laws that are absolute. Absolute […] The New Image of Music, George Rochberg. Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Autumn – Winter, 1963) We shall not dwell on the noteworthy fact that, beginning with the Baroque era, the temporal structure of music, linked to an increasingly strong and expanding sense of tonality, developed ever more complex forms of sonorous […] |
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