Volume 19, Number 3 · August 31, 1972
Varèse, Xenakis, Carter
By Virgil Thomson
Edgard Varèse
by Fernand Ouellette, translated by Derek Coltman
Grossman, 270 pp., $8.00
Varèse: A Looking-Glass Diary Volume I: 1883-1928
by Louise Varèse
Norton, 290 pp., $8.95
Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
by Iannis Xenakis
Indiana, 269 pp., $15.00
Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: A Conversation with Elliott Carter
by Allen Edwards
Norton, 128 pp., $6.00
Edgard Varèse, born 1883, was on his Burgundian side, the mother's, robust in fellowship and deeply loyal toward any object, place, person, or experience that had once touched him. Thus his grandfather Cortot with whom he spent his first ten years in a village near Mâcon remained throughout his life a memory idolized. But Varèse could also move with violence. And he could be ever so demanding, early in life for serious musical instruction, later for recognition of his music by all those whom it might concern.
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