03-12-2020, 11:55 PM
Charles Wuorinen, composer:
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas “Brokeback Mountain” and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. He was 81.
Wuorinen, who composed more than 270 works, died Wednesday at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, spokeswoman Aleba Gartner said Thursday.
Known for much of his career as an admirer of the 12-tone system of composition, Wuorinen was opinionated.
“We have a world in which the instant response of the untutored becomes the sole criterion for judgment,″ he told The New York Times in 1988, ahead of his 50th birthday. “A great work like a Beethoven symphony becomes like a blob of toothpaste. There is the bored orchestra. There are the indifferent audiences. They wait it through. They applaud. They leave.”
https://apnews.com/8deb0cdf5291f86b6aecae56556369b3
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas “Brokeback Mountain” and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories,” died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. He was 81.
Wuorinen, who composed more than 270 works, died Wednesday at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, spokeswoman Aleba Gartner said Thursday.
Known for much of his career as an admirer of the 12-tone system of composition, Wuorinen was opinionated.
“We have a world in which the instant response of the untutored becomes the sole criterion for judgment,″ he told The New York Times in 1988, ahead of his 50th birthday. “A great work like a Beethoven symphony becomes like a blob of toothpaste. There is the bored orchestra. There are the indifferent audiences. They wait it through. They applaud. They leave.”
https://apnews.com/8deb0cdf5291f86b6aecae56556369b3
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