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Review of the miniconference „New Perspectives for New Music in Germany“ at Harvard / Boston

Nolan Eley hat einen Bericht verfasst über die Mini-Konferenz „New Perspectives for New Music in Germany“, die letzte Woche an der Harvard University und am Goethe-Institut Boston (Kulturtechno berichtete, hier mein Vortragsvideo) stattfand.

http://classical-scene.com/2013/04/18/music-mattered/

This weekend, the Goethe-Institut Boston along with Harvard University hosted a series of lectures and a concert entitled New Perspectives for New Music in Germany. It may surprise some that a conversation concerning new music is still relevant. Is there really anything left to say about it? We may recall from our music history courses the constant disagreements in the decades after World War II as many different schools of music sprang up and competed for dominance. Serialism, minimalism, spectralism, totalism, polystylism and many other -isms were all explored and, more or less, exhausted. Much of the listening public also became exhausted trying to keep up with trends and follow divisive polemics—it seems nowadays audiences have found relief in a relative stasis. They can listen to their Johns—Adams, Corigliano, Harbison—and almost forget all this nonsense at Darmstadt ever happened. This weekend’s miniconference was proof that the conversation is still pertinent.