Stockhausen and his reality ?

[marc_mcnulty <mmcnulty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I just received this mail, maybe some of you have, too.  Pardon my 
duplication of it.

This quote from Herr Stockhausen truly places him in the pantheon of dead 
German fascists (In my opinion).  I have studied his work for many years 
and almost see his point of view, but his dramatic  (Wagnerian) disregard 
is questionable.  His work at times was iconoclastic, but there always was 
an underlying political ubermechen (Zarathustra) point of view that left me 
curious.

He has answered my question 10 fold.

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






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