Stockhausen and the World Trade Center

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Hello,

maybe this is of interest for you:

All Stockhausen-Concerts in Hamburg planned for this week have been 
postponed by the organizers immediately. The reason is a remark the 
composer made today on his press conference, referring to  the attack 
on the World Trade Center. According to the German news agency dpa 
Stockhausen said (my translation):

  "What had  happened there,  is -  now you have to convert your brain 
- the greatest artwork, which has ever existed. That human minds can 
fullfil something in one act, what we couldn't dream of in music, 
that people are rehearsing like mad during ten years, completely 
fanatic, for one concert and then die, that is the greatest artwork 
which has ever been existing for the whole cosmos. I couldn't do 
that. We as composers are nothing against that."

The original (in German) under:
http://de.news.yahoo.com/010918/3/1yzvm.html
http://de.news.yahoo.com/010918/3/1z0in.html

According to dpa Stockhausen excused himself for these sentences 
already during the press conference and asked the journalists not to 
publish them. However, the main sponsor of the concerts, the 
ZEIT-foundation,  postponed the events. This decision was supported 
by the Hamburg Senator of Culture  Christina Weiss, who marked 
Stockhausen's sentences as "cynic and amoral".

Greetings
Sabine Breitsameter