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Article: Wolpe and the poets of Black Mountain.(Stefan Wolpe at Black Mountain College)(Critical Essay)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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IN THIS HISTORICIZING PERIOD in which we find ourselves, composers are often identified by their influences: teacher, previous compositional models, cultural influences, and so forth. Accordingly, we take stock of Stefan Wolpe in part through the singular constellation of his influences, including Busoni, the Bauhaus, socialism, Webern, The Mediterranean School, Abstract Impressionism, jazz, the New York School, the poets of Black Mountain, and Darmstadt. It is the poets of Black Mountain which concern us here. (1)
Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 and closed its doors in 1956. Wolpe was the music director there from the summer of 1952 through April or ...