Binding: Paperback
Description: Nostalgia for the Future is the first collection in English of the writings and interviews of Luigi Nono (1924 1990). One of the most prominent figures in the development of new music after World War II he is renowned for both his compositions and his utopian views. His many essays and lectures reveal an artist at the center of the analytical theoretical critical and political debates of the time. This selection of Nono's most significant essays articles and interviews covers his entire career (1948 1989) faithfully mirroring the interests orientations continuities and fractures of a complex and unique personality. His writings illuminate his intensive involvements with theatre painting literature politics science and even mysticism. Nono's words make vividly evident his restless quest for the transformative possibilities of a radical musical experience one that is at the same time profoundly engaged with its performers and spaces its audiences and its human and social motivations and ramifications.
Title: Nostalgia For The Future Luigi Nono's Selected Writings And Interviews
Author(s): Nono Luigi, Veniero Rizzardi
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520291201
Pages: 461 Pages, 42 Music Ex, 11 Line Art, 14 T
Publication Date: 10/23/2018
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups