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Archive for December, 2007
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
“On Thursday, December 13th 2007, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. it will be possible to personally say farewell to Karlheinz Stockhausen in the chapel of the Waldfriedhof in Kuerten (Kastanienstrasse).”
– (http://stockhausen.org/stockhasuen_passes.html)
I wish I could go.
Interesting video to go along with KONTAKTE.
Stockhausen lecturing:
Word Creations #3
On Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in New York:
“The Adagio of the Ninth was a classic Berliner tour-de-force: the extreme polish of the playing in every section created a fabulous mirage of music as three-dimensional space.”
– Alex Ross, New Yorker, December 3, 2007, p. 107
© 2007 Zeitschichten. 
