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PREPARED GUITAR: An interview with Milton Babbitt By Gabrielle Zuckerman, Second Part

Publish Date

May 11, 2016

Interviewees

Milton Babbitt

Interviewers

Gabrielle Zuckerman

Publisher

Schott Music

Topics

His compositional style and influences
His work with electronic music
Milton Babbitt's influence on contemporary music
The challenges in finding an audience for experimental music
The creation of Philomel

People Mentioned

Aaron Copland
Andre Klein
Andrew Washburn Mead
Anita Ellis
Anton Garcia-Fernandez
Arthur Schnabel
Bethany Beardsley
Brooke Shields
Christian Wolff
Daniel Gouveia
David Tudor
Einstein
Erik Satie
Ernst Krenek
Fernando Farinha
Fred Frith
Gogi Grant
Hans Reichel
Harry Olson
Iannis Xenakis
Jimmy Lavine
Joe Strummer
John Cage
John Nash
John Tukey
Joseph N. Straus
Kornman
La Monte Young
Marcel Duchamp
Marion Bauer
Merce Cunningham
Michael Peters
Miguel Copon
Morton Feldman
Otto Klemperer
Paco de Lucia
Paulo Fresu
Pepe Habichuela
Peter Mauzey
Philip James
Pierre Schaeffer
Pinhas Deleuze
Ralph Towner
Revoc
Richard Koch
Robert Fripp
Roger Sessions
Stephen Dembski
Stephen Peles
Tim Hodgkinson
Varèse
Vladimir Ussachevsky

Works Mentioned

12-Tone Counterpoint
Advartunk
An Introduction to the Music of Milton Babbitt
Composition for Four Instruments
Composition for Synthesizer
Four'33'' Cage for guitar
High Fidelity
Milton Babbitt: Words about Music
Odyssey
Philomel
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
The Function of the Said Structure in the 12-Tone System
Who Cares if You Listen
Yacob Suhar

Places Mentioned

Amherst College
Boulingé
Columbia
High Fidelity
Iowa
Juilliard School of Music
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York University
Palm Springs
Princeton University
Sullivan Street

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