Word: boulez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second 1962-63 Horatio Appleton Lamb lecture last night, composer Pierre Boulez attacked the inappropriate application of science and philosophy to music. "Those who manipulate numbers to eternity are all brain--no mind," he said. "Music should not have the structure of other thoughts imposed...
...Boulez deplored the use of scientific language in music by those not thoroughly trained in both science and music. For example, numerical description of the permutations of notes in serial music is "sophism and mania, related more to despair than to science"; such an approach raises the spectre of the medieval fanatics of the Golden Number...
...long as you have no idea of musical techniques, philosophical comments on music remain only ideas of ideas, fundamentally irrelevant," Boulez said...
...April 9, 10, and 11, the distinguished French composer Pierre Boulez, Horatio Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer in Music 1962-63, will give the first three in a series of six lectures under the general title "The Necessity of an Aesthetic Orientation." The lectures will be given in Paine Hall, Music Building, at 3:30 p.m., and are free and open to the public...
Producing Friday's concert must have required substantial labors of both Mr. Boulez and the Department of Music. By the end of the evening, the audience in Sanders appeared grateful. The Department should present more such concerts of new music, by Mr. Boulez and others, with artists of equal caliber. Musical education proceeds best through...