No worries. We're all a bit off these days. I just didn't want to see old
weird but charming Stockie get "character-assassinated."
Rudy
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From: marc_mcnulty [mailto:mmcnulty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:50 PM
To: microsound
Subject: RE: [microsound] Stockhausen and his reality ?
You're right, I guess I have gotten too sensitive. Sorry.
Marc
At 03:45 PM 9/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>You jumped the gun, Marc. Go see his website.
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>Rudy
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>From: marc_mcnulty [mailto:mmcnulty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 3:44 PM
>To: microsound; lowercase-sound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [microsound] Stockhausen and his reality ?
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>Greetings,
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>I just received this mail, maybe some of you have, too. Pardon my
>duplication of it.
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>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.
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>He has answered my question 10 fold.
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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):
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>"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."
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>The original (in German) under:
>http://de.news.yahoo.com/010918/3/1yzvm.html
>http://de.news.yahoo.com/010918/3/1z0in.html
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>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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>marc mcnulty --> http://marcmcnulty.org
>io-records --> http://io-records.com
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