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2021-12-03 18:04:46
There is an unwritten law in music that composers are left unperformed for ten years after they die. The muting is certainly true of Henze, who died in 2012 and has hardly been heard since. A Vienna Opera staging of his 1990 opera, based on Yukio Mishima’s powerful novel, The Sailor who fell from grace [...]
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2020-08-06 16:02:33
Fifty Years After His Messy Suicide, Yukio Mishima’s Fiction Is Coming Back To The Fore
“[His] carefully cultivated image — a vigorous martial artist, his commitment to bushido, the code of the samurai and his fixation with masculinity, beauty and glory — has remained more notable than a lot of his writing. He even went to great pains to craft an image for an American audience with English-language interviews in […]
2020-05-23 09:27:11
Clouds, Clocks and Improvisation: I chat to composer & pianist Karol Beffa about the separate but related acts of improvisation & composition
[…] when his style was transitioning from clouds to clocks. He is also influenced by ideas from Steve Reich and John Adams, the notion of the physical, corporeal sense of music rather than it embodying sentiment. And for his inventive, imaginative writing for voice, Karol admires the music of Benjamin Britten. An interest in text is something that characterises many of Karol's pieces, not just setting texts but having been inspired by them from Yukio Mishima and Franz Kafka, to Jorge Luis Borges and Kazuo Ishiguro. For Karol, text often triggers the imagination. There are of course, times when a commission is explicitly linked to a text such as writing for choir or writing vocal music, but on occasions when this is not the case Karol is interested in trying to put into music a text in a language which he knows but which is not his mother tongue. […]
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