Research Catalog

Title

Interviews with American composers : Barney Childs in conversation / edited by Virginia Anderson.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Childs, Barney
• Anderson, Virginia (Musicologist)

Description

xiii, 428 pages : music; 25 cm.

Summary

"In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold Budd, Christian Wolff, and others. Virginia Anderson edits the first published collection of these conversations. She pairs each interview with a contextual essay by a contemporary expert that shows how the composer's discussion with Childs fits into his life and work. Together, the interviewees cover a broad range of ideas and concerns around topics like education, notation, developments in electronic music, changing demands on performers, and tonal music. Innovative and revealing, Interviews with American Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music at an important crossroads"--

Series Statement

Music in American life

Uniform Title

Music in American life.

Alternative Title

Barney Childs in conversation

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Composers > United States > Interviews
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism
• Composers
• Music
• United States

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

William Albright (1944-1998) -- Robert Ashley (1930-2014) -- Larry Austin (1930-2018) -- William Bolcom (b. 1938) -- Harold Budd (1936-2020) -- Joel Chadabe (1938-2021) -- Charles Dodge (b. 1942) -- William Hellermann (1939-2017) -- Sydney Hodkinson (b. 1934) -- Ben Johnston (1926-2019) -- Daniel Lentz (b. 1942) -- Alvin Lucier (b. 1931) -- Donald Martino (1931-2005) -- Salvatore Martirano (1927-1995) -- Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- Gordon Mumma (b. 1935) -- Loren Rush (b. 1935) -- Michael Sahl (1934-2018) -- Peter Westergaard (1931-2019) -- Olly Wilson (1937-2018) -- Phil Winsor (1938-2012) -- Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Charles Wuorinen (1938-2020).

Call Number

JNE 22-98

ISBN

• 9780252043994
• 0252043995

LCCN

2021024456

OCLC

1243350154

Title

Interviews with American composers : Barney Childs in conversation / edited by Virginia Anderson.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music in American life

Music in American life.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Childs, Barney, interviewer.

Anderson, Virginia (Musicologist), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Interviews with American composers. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022] 9780252052927 (DLC) 2021024457 (OCoLC)1253442478

Research Call Number

JNE 22-98