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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Childs, Barney, interviewer.

Anderson, Virginia (Musicologist), editor.

Series:

Music in American life.

Illinois scholarship online.

Music in American life

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers--United States--Interviews.

Composers.

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]

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 40, 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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 12, 2022).

ISBN:

0-252-05292-7

OCLC:

1253442478