Paranoia and Conspiracy v. Krenek

The opera had not yet been produced at the time of my San Diego lectures. As a postmortem I may add that I had never anticipated the amount of indignation and anguish that the performance, which eventually took place in Hamburg, caused. One could expect the conservatives to be outraged. but they were just as […]

Vaudeville Park’s CMJ Post-Minimal Wind-Down

I have this coming up, I hope to see your bright and shining faces there! Five composers join forces to provide your pre-Halloween weekend concert viewing pleasure with Vaudeville Park’s CMJ Post-Minimal Wind-Down. Come join us for drinks + music, and lean back and enjoy fresh post-minimal music from young composers.

PROGRAM: Josh Booth – […]

Heideggerian Ontology in a Letter to Krenek!

It is not true, and I have never believed, that a contemporary artist must obtain a sociological understanding of the present in order to be able to work. I cannot believe other than that the true artist makes these sociological significances and relationships visible, as it were, in an unconscious way.

Letter from Friedrich Gubler […]