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A Chance Encounter with Christian Wolff

By Frank J. Oteri on March 1, 2002No Comment


Christian Wolff

Friday, January 11, 2002—4:33 p.m.

Greenwich House Music School
New York, NY

  1. A Conversion to New Music
  2. Meeting Cage & the Genesis of Indeterminacy
  3. Interpreting Indeterminate Music
  4. Compositional Intent
  5. On Serialism & Complex Modernism
  6. On Neo-Romanticism & Politics
  7. Christian Wolff—Rock Star?
  8. The Orchestra
  9. Listening
  10. Music and A Career
  • Sonic Gallery
  • Complete Interview Transcript (160KB PDF file)


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