Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice (Paperback)

Preface: New Music and the Village Voice
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Importance of Being Downtown

INTERVIEWS

Shouting at the Dead: Robert Ashley’s Neoplatonist TV Operas
The Part That Doesn’t Fit Is Me: Yoko Ono, the Inventor of Downtown
Midtown Avant-Gardist: Philip Glass Sails Columbus into a Clash of Keys and Cultures
Trimpin’s Machine Age: A Revolutionary Tinker Revives the Dream of Infinitely Fluid Music
Dancing with the Audience: Carman Moore’s Mass Attempts to Heal the World
Harps from Heaven: Glenn Branca Reemerges from the Thick of Theory
Shadowing Capote: Mikel Rouse
The Dance Between: David First
Raising Ghosts: Leroy Jenkins Brings the African Burial Ground to Life
Opera Meets Oprah: Mikel Rouse Hawks Salvation in an Opera for Real People
A Difficult Woman: A Cosmic Piano Concerto from the Outspoken Composer of Vagina
Monkey Business: Fred Ho De-Europeanizes Opera with Martial Arts
Music and/versus Society
Sampling: Plundering for Art
Mozarts Live! “Performing Mozart’s Music”
Killers in the Audience
Letting Euro Go
What Normal People Hear: Rose Rosengard Subotnik
Dysfunctional Harmony: Creativity
Don’t Touch that Dahl: Classical Radio
Spin It Around: New Music in the Public’s Hands
Paradise at Our Fingertips: Voltaire’s Bastards
What’s Your AQ?
Dump the Multicult
No More Heroes
Music of the Excluded Middle
Medicine Music: The Uses of Art
Who Killed Classical Music? Forget It, Jake?It’s Uptown
Musical Politics
Paradigms Lost: Rhys Chatham/John Zorn
Blurred Out: On Language
Rock Rules: Bandwagonism
Pulitzer Hacks: Amateurs/Professionals
Composer’s Clearing House: The Pulitzer Prize
Obitchuaries: John Cage
Totally Ismic: Totalism
The Last Barbarian: John Cage
Berlitz’s Downtown for Musicians: New-Music Performance
What Are We, Chopped Liver? The New Generation
The Great Divide: Uptown Composers Are Stuck in the Past
Y Not 2K?
Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead: Modernism Loses Its Grip as the Odometer Turns Over
Aesthetics
Let X = X: Minimalism versus Serialism
A Tale of Two Sohos: Plato/Aristotle
A Secret Manifesto: Fred Lerdahl
The Modernist Dance: War in the Brain
It’s Only as Good as It Sounds: Richard Rorty
Noises of Fate: You Don’t Need a Sampler to Recontextualize
Sounding the Image
Waiting for Monteverdi: Minimalism
Dads versus Shadows: James Hillman
Vexing the Purists: Vexations
Musical Amnesia Cured! Imagism
End of the Paper Trail: Scores
Reflections on Books, Figures, and Events
No Shortcuts: John Cage
E.T., Go Home: Tuning
Composing the Lingo: Harry Partch, American Inventor
Modernist: Morton Feldman’s Abstract Expressions
One-Note Wonder: A New York Retrospective for Italy’s Saintly Mystic, Giacinto Scelsi
Minimalism Isn’t Pretty: Tony Conrad Makes a Truculent Comeback
Father of Us All: The Critic as Composer
Grand Old Youngster: Turning the Century at Lincoln Center
Concert Reviews
Maximal Spirit: La Monte Young
Big Machines, Little Issues: The 1987 International Computer Music Conference
First Flight: John Adams
Admiring the Waterfall: David Garland
Yawn: R.{ths}I.{ths}P. Hayman
Mottos and Models: Morton Feldman/Rhys Chatham/Anthony Coleman
Searching for the Plague: Diamanda Galas
Oceans without Walls: Laurie Anderson
Insiders, Outsiders, and Old Boys: New Music America ’89
Dark Stormy Night: Nicolas Collins
Let There Be Noise: David Rosenboom/Trichy Sankaran
Music in Time of War: The Composer-to-Composer Symposium
Don’t Worry, Be Hopi
Enough of Nothing: Postminimalism
Voltage High: Ron Kuivila
Isn’t That Spatial? Henry Brant
The Limits of Craft: Frederic Rzewski/Philip Glass
Opera Is Relative: Einstein on the Beach
Well-Tuned Blues: The Forever Bad Blues Band
Voice of the Unutterable: The S.E.M. Ensemble
How Peculiar? The American Eccentrics
Flutes and Flying Branches: The Taos Pueblo Powwow
The Tingle of p {mult} mn {mi} 1: La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela
The British Don’t Have Oral Sex: Now Eleanor’s Idea
View from the Gap: Emerging Voices
Regarding Henry: The World’s First Multicultural Modernist Conservative Patron Saint of Outsiders
What Our Pulses Say: David Garland/Billy Martin
Mistaken Memories: Tony Conrad: One-Idea Composer or Late Bloomer?
Passings
Legacy of the Quiet Touch
That Which Is Fundamental: Julius Eastman, 1940?1990
Philosopher No More: He Quietly Started a Spiritual Revolution

Index

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