[NewMusic] FW: [Csnd] Re: Horaţiu Rădulescu has died

[Matt Ingalls]

________________________________________
From: peiman khosravi [peimankhosravi at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 4:20 AM
To: csound at lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Horaţiu Rădulescu has died

A very interesting interview here that I read a few month ago.

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/radulescu.html

Peiman

On 30 Sep 2008, at 10:50, jpff wrote:

> My memory was faulty -- the obits were in French and Romanian
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4aus4t
>
> from the Silence list.... ("Richard Friedman" <rchrd at rchrd.com>)
>
> This is depressing. I interviewed him about 20 years ago for KPFA, and
> have presented some of his recorded music occasionally on the
> radio. He was a strange person. (Some one used "bizarre" once, in
> French). But his music was quite exacting. In our interview (I wonder
> if I can find it) he seemed very taken by the fact that we were born
> on the same day (Jan 6 in NYC would have been Jan 7 in Europe), but
> two years earlier. This seemed to create a sort of bond between us in
> his mind that somehow escaped me. Perhaps something lost in
> translation. His English was not that good, and my French
> embarrassingly poor.
>
> Over the years he did manage to send me (or have his publisher send
> me) new recordings of his work, which always impressed me in their
> extra-musical construction ... details that without explanation would
> certainly not be perceived merely by listening.
>
> Clearly, his ears were indeed larger than anyone else's.
>
> This is sad, because he never got the recognition he sought. The
> reason I was able to interview him so long ago was that he had been
> sent to San Francisco to try to convince the S.F. Symphony to play his
> music. That mission failed.
>
> Extremely sad.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Rod Stasick <rod at stasick.org> wrote:
>
>> Very sad and too young at only 66.  I could only find a French and
>> Romanian mention, but English obits may soon be available:
>> http://tinyurl.com/4aus4t If you are unfamiliar with this composer,
>> you can check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatiu_Radulescu
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
> To unsubscribe, send email sympa at lists.bath.ac.uk with body
> "unsubscribe csound"



Send bugs reports to this list.
To unsubscribe, send email sympa at lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound"