Volume 18, Number 2 · February 10, 1972
Music to Compose By
By Charles Rosen
Boulez on Music Today
by Pierre Boulez, translated by Susan Bradshaw, translated by Richard Rodney Bennett
Harvard, 144 pp., $6.95
The original French title of this book is a little awkward in English: Penser la musique aujourd'hui means 'To think music today.' It implies that music—what it is and, above all, what it might and ought to be—can be conceived by the intelligence and that an act of thought can be a creative act of will. The publishers have decided to ignore these implications: 'Boulez on Music Today by Pierre Boulez' has the advantage of getting Boulez's name twice on the cover and of avoiding the mention of anything so repellent to the prospective customer as rational thought.
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