<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Dear Stephen and the List,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>the question of Boulez and WWII is extremely important. I have given papers at several conferences on the topic of Stockhausen and WWII. He also avoids mentioning the war, although in at least three interviews, one with Adorno, he was cornered and had to respond. It is obvious that both were the children of WWII and music, a non-verbal witness, testifies to the opposite of Boulez' and Stockhausen's public stance. I focused on Le Carre in my analysis. This composition was
inspired by flying a four-engine airplane (remember Goering's failed attempts to build a 4-engined bomber) ! And the sitting diagram, provided by Stockhausen, reminds of the military maps of the Blitz Krieg. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Avant-garde was the result of technological advancements that were accelerated by military technology of WWII.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;"><span>Best,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Ildar Khannanov</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>solfeggio7@yahoo.com</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:08 AM, Stephen Jablonsky <jablonsky@optimum.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6688461647"><div>I was a student of Boulez at Harvard in 1963 and we have been friends ever since. I have spent hundreds of hours with him and I can report that he never spoke about WWII or even his life in Montbrison. I had met his sister on a number of occasions and even spent a week at her house in Provence so we did talk about her. On only two occasions did he ever mention his brother.<div><br clear="none"><div>
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<br clear="none"><div><div class="yiv6688461647yqt9370337586" id="yiv6688461647yqt12852"><div>On May 21, 2014, at 10:28 PM, CARSON FARLEY <<a href="mailto:ccfarley@embarqmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ccfarley@embarqmail.com">ccfarley@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv6688461647Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font: 14px/normal BookmanOldStyle; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><div style='font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 12pt;'><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I've just recently finished two books on Boulez including a collection of his writings "Pierre Boulez Orientations" by Harvard University Press and "Rationalizing Culture - IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the
Musical Avant-Garde" by University Of California Press (Georgia Born). There is little mention at all of WWII in either book, nor reference to it in either index. Possibly you will find the two books useful for further research on the subject of Boulez.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carson Farley</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Composer/cellist/theorist</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">University of Washington Alumnus</div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Smt-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br
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