A Quotation For Nearly The Middle of July

Berio: Cigar, mackintosh, strange heart shaped pendant (???)

'I get the impression that behind the far-from-desperate musical folly of a Morton Feldman who writes everything pianissimo, lies the fear of taking even a step out of the "avant-garde", lest he should end up in those regions which in old maps used to carry the inscription "hic sunt leones", where music opens out with all its volcanoes, its seas and its hills. Maybe he is afraid of being eaten alive.'

Luciano Berio, an interview with Rossana Dalmonte (1981), from Luciano Berio, Two Interviews, available in the UK here, US here.

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None But The Lonely Flute

An excellent flute album here from Dorothy Stone, free to download courtesy of the Different Waters blog.

1. Milton Babbitt - None but the Lonely Flute
2. Morton Feldman - Trio for Flutes
3. Stephen L. Mosko - For Morton Feldman
4. Kathyrn Alexander - And the Whole Air is Tremulous
5. Stephen L. Mosko - Indigenous Music II: Flute
6. John Cage - Ryoan-Ji

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Quote Of The Day (02/04/08)

'Where in life we do everything we can to avoid anxiety, in art we must persue it. This is difficult. Everything in our life and culture , regardless of our background, is dragging us away. Still, there is this sense of something imminent. And what is imminent, we find, is neither the past nor the future, but simply - the next ten minutes'.

Morton Feldman; The Anxiety of Art (part of 3 essays in The Music of Morton Feldman edited by Thomas DeLio)