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Tag Archives: Milton Babbitt
sequence and simultaneity
In Hiernonymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, the triptych format creates a play between the panels. It subverts traditonal juxtapositions that occur within the same space such as background and foreground. The first impression upon looking at these framed … Continue reading
putting a broken century together
Arnold Schoenberg is generally seen as the composer who did to music what Jackson Pollock was to do to art. Discard the old rules and take it into new realms, psychological and emotional planes hitherto unexplored, or unrepresented in that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alice Herz-Sommer, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, Franz Kafka, G. H. Schubert, Gustav Mahler, James Levine, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Robert Craft, Robert Schumann, Sigmund Freud, Wagner
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A note of dissonance: who cares if you listen
Electronic composition. Its an odd contradiction: Impenetrable, inaccessible, yet highly influential. A notoriety built partly on his personal view that reinforced a belief that contemporary music was for an elite cognoscenti. His supporters of his twelve tone theories, including Stephen … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Art, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Greg Sandow, James Levine, Laura Karpman, Milton Babbitt, Pablo Picasso, Philip Glass, Pierre Boulez, Richard Feynman, Robert Hilferty, Robert P. Morgan, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Reich, Steve Soderberg, Theodor Adorno, Wiley Hitchcock
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