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Article: Broken sequences: fragmentation, abundance, beauty.(Stefan Wolpe's music)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Enduring Individuality in the details is the backbone of strong experience.
--Whitehead
ON THIS OCCASION celebrating Stefan Wolpe's birth almost a hundred years ago, an occasion that gives us the opportunity to reflect on the force his scores, his words, and teaching continue to exert almost 30 years beyond his death, I would like to speculate on a characteristic of Wolpe's music that I think may be a source of attraction to those who take the time to listen to, play, and study his work. It is a mark of the generality of my talk that this characteristic will be called simply "particularity"--a character that might be ascribed to any vivid experience.
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