The piece by Villa Lobos mentioned at 14:09 reminds me of his "New York City Skyline", which has a melody that is basically the outline of the skyline in question transcribed in musical notation. Maybe Boulez misremembered, or Villa did compose a piece using the same method, but taking the shape of some mountains instead.
I suppose from a topographical point of view there isn’t much difference. Mountains and skyscrapers, hills and houses are all merely protuberances. Topography doesn’t care that some are supposed natural and others artificial (“woman-made”). According to E.B. White, what we call pigeons are really “rock doves”, evolved to hang out on mountains. Driven from their natural habitats, they found modern cities quite suitable replacements
@@mrtchaikovsky Maybe it was a DOS notification. (Bill Gates, we may remember, made his initial fortune from DOS, speaking of DOS. He did this by acquiring the source code for CP/M, Control Program for Microcomputers, widely used at the time for “desktops” such as the Kaypro II. He copied without permission this source code in such a way that it would work-when it wasn’t glitching, as it often was-with IBM’s belated foray into the microcomputer market with the PC-AT and XT. Apple successfully sued Microsoft for stealing their MacIntosh GUI with Windows, Microsoft paying back just a tiny portion of the wealth it accumulated from the theft.)
Boulez as such an affable, vivacious, clever, witty, good-humored man. I think it would be difficult not to like him.
That should be “was”, not “as”. I’m perpetually fighting my IPad’s AS and perpetually losing.
At the beginning of the interview Boulez says “oh my god 1944, that’s 40 years ago”… and now we can say “oh my god this interview was 40 years ago” 🤯
14:40 Boulez's comments on Renga - hilarious!
Thanks.
The piece by Villa Lobos mentioned at 14:09 reminds me of his "New York City Skyline", which has a melody that is basically the outline of the skyline in question transcribed in musical notation. Maybe Boulez misremembered, or Villa did compose a piece using the same method, but taking the shape of some mountains instead.
I suppose from a topographical point of view there isn’t much difference. Mountains and skyscrapers, hills and houses are all merely protuberances. Topography doesn’t care that some are supposed natural and others artificial (“woman-made”). According to E.B. White, what we call pigeons are really “rock doves”, evolved to hang out on mountains. Driven from their natural habitats, they found modern cities quite suitable replacements
quite interesting...
Where is the rest of this?? Wonderful to hear and both at the height of their powers here
The interviewer is Ernest Fleischmann.
And what do we know about this guy?
Look him up.@@jeffryphillipsburns
@@jeffryphillipsburns Look him up.
@@jeffryphillipsburns He was the General Manager of the LA Philharmonic.
What was that sound at 12:19?
Some kind of Windows notification.
@@UtsyoChakraborty In 1984?!
@@mrtchaikovsky No, in 2022.
@@mrtchaikovsky Maybe it was a DOS notification. (Bill Gates, we may remember, made his initial fortune from DOS, speaking of DOS. He did this by acquiring the source code for CP/M, Control Program for Microcomputers, widely used at the time for “desktops” such as the Kaypro II. He copied without permission this source code in such a way that it would work-when it wasn’t glitching, as it often was-with IBM’s belated foray into the microcomputer market with the PC-AT and XT. Apple successfully sued Microsoft for stealing their MacIntosh GUI with Windows, Microsoft paying back just a tiny portion of the wealth it accumulated from the theft.)
3:04 I knew I wasn't wrong.
How so?