The Courage of Composers and the Tyranny of Taste Reflections on New Music

Frontcover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Prompts -- Part One: Composers -- 1 Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952) -- 2 John Adams (b. 1947) -- 3 Vykintas Baltakas (b. 1972) -- 4 George Benjamin (b. 1960) -- 5 Friedrich Cerha (b. 1926) -- 6 Unsuk Chin (b. 1961) -- 7 George Crumb (b. 1929) -- 8 Chaya Czernowin (b. 1957) -- 9 Paul-Heinz Dittrich (b. 1930) -- 10 Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) -- 11 Lorenzo Ferrero (b. 1951) -- 12 Michael Gielen (b. 1927) -- 13 Detlev Glanert (b. 1960) -- 14 Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) -- 15 Georg Friedrich Haas (b. 1953) -- 16 Giya Kancheli (b. 1935) -- 17 György Kurtág (b. 1926) -- 18 Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935) -- 19 Libby Larsen (b. 1950) -- 20 Liza Lim (b. 1966) -- 21 Luca Lombardi (b. 1945) -- 22 Siegfried Matthus (b. 1934) -- 23 Robert Morris (b. 1943) -- 24 Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968) -- 25 Enno Poppe (b. 1969) -- 26 Karl Aage Rasmussen (b. 1947) -- 27 Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) -- 28 Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) -- 29 Allen Shawn (b. 1948) -- 30 Johannes Maria Staud (b. 1974) -- 31 Manfred Trojahn (b. 1949) -- 32 Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) -- 33 Christian Wolff (b. 1934) -- Part Two: Critics -- 34 Paul Griffiths (b. 1947) -- 35 Wolfgang Schreiber (b. 1939) -- 36 Arnold Whittall (b. 1935) -- Part Three: Festival Directors -- 37 Heike Hoffmann (b. 1958) -- 38 Sir Nicholas Kenyon (b. 1951) -- Epilogue: Rainer Nonnenmann (b. 1968) and Bálint András Varga (b. 1941) -- Index