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Problems Facing Music Criticism From the COMPOSER-TO-COMPOSER Series at the Telluride Institute

By NewMusicBox Staff on September 1, 2002No Comment


Estrada, La Barbara, Cage, Spiegel, Subotnick, Lockwood, Davis, León, Amirkhanian, and Johnso
Composer Participants:
Charles Amirkhanian
John Cage
Laurie Spiegel
Joan La Barbara
Tom Johnson
Walter Zimmermann
Morton Subotnick
Anthony Davis
Tania León
Julio Estrada
Jin Hi Kim
Ricardo Dal Farra
Annea Lockwood

Guest Participant:
Alan Rich

Friday, August 18, 1989, 9-11 AM

Recorded and transcribed by Laura Kuhn

  1. Various Types of Music Criticism
  2. Music Criticism in Europe
  3. Objectivity and Influence
  4. Capturing the Essence of Music in Words
  5. The Power of a Critic
  6. Critics and Cross Cultural Issues
  7. Criticism and Publicity
  8. Music Criticism, Politics and Marginalization
  9. Uses of Music Criticism by the Music Industry
  10. Polemical Wars and Camps Within Music Criticism
  11. Composers as Music Critics
  12. Avoiding Insularity
  • Complete transcript (176KB PDF)


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