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I’m combing my way through Krenek’s set of essays Exploring Music, and it’s providing some great insight into the man and his beliefs. His vignette on Milhaud that I wrote about before was really cool. I’m currently digesting ‘New Humanity and Old Objectivity’ and some of his views on vernacular forms of art (pop music […] I’ve got a bunch more to input, but it’s coming along. His house, filled with old-fashioned furniture and family photographs by suburban photographers, is a kind of chamber of horrors, the exhibits being fantastic, tasteless objects from every chance country — particularly bottles, which Milhaud collects with a rare passion and success. He is also madly in love with his old picture postcards showing highly varnished […] I wrote up a bit on the piece I’m writing for Cadillac Moon Ensemble’s new blog. Head over there to check it out and keep checking in over the next two weeks to read about the collaboration between CME and the other composers in Circles and Lines! Here’s an excerpt from the post: Canis Major […] Let me start off this post by noting that Krenek was a very smart man, but lived in a period where in much of Western Democracy, the right for women to vote was limited for much of his youth (In Switzerland for more than half his life!), and that feminist ideas had not wholly penetrated […] |
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