Henri Dutilleux : music--mystery and memory : conversations with Claude Glayman / translated by Roger Nichols.

Author/creator Dutilleux, Henri
Other author Glayman, Claude.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.
Descriptionvi, 158 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Dutilleux, Henri, 1916-2013--Interviews.

Uniform titleMystère et mémoire des sons. English
Portion of title Music--mystery and memory
Contents The portrait of Chopin -- An anxious child -- Of bells and belfries -- Paris. 'artists' entrance' -- 'In the style of' -- Interlude at the Villa Medici -- From the occupation to the liberation - in search of an aesthetic -- Genevieve Joy -- Pelleas in September 1940 -- With Gremillon, Fano and Pialat -- Opus 1 -- The ORTF - the first symphony -- Serialism: historical necessity or terrorism? -- Desormiere, Munch, Ansermet -- Les ballets de Paris - Le Loup -- On Jean Cassou -- 'Le double', via Munch -- Memory, not leitmotif -- Malraux's support for music -- Metaboles for George Szell -- May 1968 -- Tout un monde lointain -- On the name 'Sacher' -- Aren't the notes enough? -- Nocturnes - Timbres, Escape, Mouvement -- Ainsi la nuit - the economy of the string quartet -- Mystere de l'instant -- Festivals -- L'arbe des songes -- Le Jeu des contraires and subsequent works -- Twenty-four stirings and a cimbalom -- Against the tide or unclassifiable? -- Science and music -- French music and the outside world -- Hedonism -- Living by composing -- The Ile Saint-Louis -- The star system - artistic fetishism -- From Sarah Vaughan to Cathy Berberian -- The voice, at last? -- Eighty years old - Tanglewood -- Competitions for 2000? -- Reworkings -- Piano problems -- On the borders of music -- An individual style -- New music or innovative music? -- For the Boston Orchestra and Ozawa -- On mystery.
Abstract In 1996 the French journalist Claude Glayman conducted a series of interviews with Henri Dutilleux which were published in France in 1997. The translator is the UK's leading translator of French musical writing, Roger Nichols.
General noteFirst published in French by Actes Sud 1997.
Bibliography noteIncludes discography (pages 139-144), bibliographical references (pages 145-150), and index.
LCCN 2002074533
ISBN0754608999 (alk. paper)

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