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Morty Feldman Would Be 82 today

Morton Feldman - NY Times 1985
 
Morton Feldman would be 82 today, January 12.
He died in 1987.
 
For any music's future, you don't go to the devices, you don't go to the procedures, you go to the attitude. And you do not find your own attitude; that's what you inherit. I'm not my own man. I'm a compilation of all the important people in my life. I once had a seven-hour conversation with Boulez; unknown to him, at affected my life. I admire his attitude. Varese's attitude. Wolpe's attitude. Cage's attitude. I spent one afternoon with Beckett; it will be with me forever. Not his work; not his commitment; not his marvellous face, but his attitude. (August 1980 - quoted in Morton Feldman Says, edited by Chris Villars, Hyphen Press, London 2006)
 
Happy birthday, Morty!   We miss you.
 
The Morton Feldman Page: http://www.cnvill.net/mfhome.htm 
 
The Speaking of Music Interview, January 1986 with Charles Amirkhanian: on RadiOM.org 
 

Posted by rchrd on January 11, 2008 11:30 PM |

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