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One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener.

Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer in big business. But his reply to his own question about a threat to the future of music is both a challenge and an expression of...

Die frischen, oft radikalen Ideen der Jahrhundertwende fanden nicht nur in den bildenden Kunsten ihren Niederschlag, sondern erfassten auch die Literatur, die Musik, den Film und die Druckgraphik. Hier spielen die Zeitschrift "Der Sturm" und die mit ihr verbundenen Kunstler der verschiedensten Gattungen eine zentrale Rolle.
Im Anschluss an die Ausstellung "Der Sturm - Zentrum der Avantgarde" haben die jungsten Forschungen ein neues Licht auf die Beziehungen der Kunstler und Kunstlergruppen zu Herwarth Walden und ihren Einfluss auf die Zeitschrift geworfen. Im vorliegenden Band werden...

One of America's foremost contemporary composers, professor of music at the University of California, Roger Sessions here discusses the musical experience of the composer, the performer, the listener. He believes this experience to be shared, on in which all three participants play vital roles, and in this book he speaks especially to the listener.

Mr. Sessions finds that the artist-public relationships has been shifted to that of producer and consumer in big business. But his reply to his own question about a threat to the future of music is both a challenge and an expression of...

Hollywood, California. October 1988.

"I'm afraid I've placed you in an untenable situation." When you're summoned by the company president and he starts the conversation with that, you know it's not going to end well. He was firing me. I wasn't surprised. But by the time the president sent for me, my ability to sign a sellable act was no longer a question mark. My first platinum act was about to blow past one million units sold.

The decision to fire me, at the very least, was poorly timed. But from my standpoint this move had less to do with sales and more to do with...