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john11inc

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RIP Milton Babbitt

on: January 30, 2011, 05:12:05 AM

Sorry to say.

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Re: RIP Milton Babbitt

Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 05:35:05 AM

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john11inc

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Re: RIP Milton Babbitt

Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 05:39:02 AM

As Babbitt wrote of Wolpe in his memoriam,

"He has left us - his music. And so I join you in a refusal to mourn the mortality of the man when there is so much to celebrate in the immortalities of his music. . . There is yet so much to be found in the inventions of his musical mind that, if his task now has been completed, our obligations, our responsibilities have only just begun."

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-Jacques Derrida

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Re: RIP Milton Babbitt

Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 08:59:40 AM

Yes, I saw this yesterday, too; very sad - the second grand old man of American music. He seems to have suffered a similar fate to that of his elder contemporary, compatriot and one-time teacher Sessions - under-exposure and a largely unwarranted reputation for dry academicism and lack of wit, notwithstanding his interest in popular American music, jazz and the like. It's high time for due retrospectives of both composers; perhaps we might now get at least one of those (although I'm not about to hold my breath)...

RIP.

Best,

Alistair

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