Word: boulez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imagination loses nothing in becoming conscious of itself," said Pierre Boulez last night in the third 1962-63 Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecture...
...Boulez examined the role esthetics should play in a composer's work, and what effects an esthetic consciousness would have on a composer's imagination. "If your imagination is not strong enough to withstand investigation, you are destroyed," he said, "and the sooner the better...
...mechanism of musical creation needs specialized thought," which has absorbed scientific and philosophical ideas. Boulez is equipped to provide that thought: he was trained in mathematics before he began composing professionally. Boulez then discussed the genesis and character of musical creation...
Drawing on his own experience, Boulez illustrated the variety of ways a work can begin. Sometimes an "abstract conception" of the form arises, sometimes "a purely instrumental intuition" of an interesting combination. Often the composer is like the painter Henry Miller described, who "started with a horse and ended up with an angel...
...Boulez began his lecture by criticizing composers who follow a great composer by stealing his tools and using them improperly. "You must know the why of the grammar--not just the grammar," he said...