7/4 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) passed away this morning. Milton Babbitt (May 10, 1916 - January 29, 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Babbitt I used to see him at concerts in NYC in the '90s. Him and Elliott Carter would always be there with their wives. Julliard Theater, Miller Theater. RIP. Edited January 29, 2011 by 7/4 Quote
7/4 Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) Milton Babbitt - Composition for Guitar David Starobin, gtr New Music with Guitar, Vol. 1 ℗ 2011 Bridge Records, Inc. Released on: 1988-06-01 Music Publisher: C.F. Peters Edited February 29, 2016 by 7/4 Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 29, 2011 Report Posted January 29, 2011 Sorry to hear this, although 94 ain't bad. I enjoy his music - it's austere on the surface, but it just "works." Quote
7/4 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Posted January 30, 2011 Sorry to hear this, although 94 ain't bad. I enjoy his music - it's austere on the surface, but it just "works." Yeah...there's something about the way it sounds that just makes sense. Like Bach, a solidly constructed building. Quote
7/4 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Posted January 30, 2011 NY Times obit: Milton Babbitt at Carnegie Hall in 1998. Milton Babbitt, Composer, Dies at 94 By ALLAN KOZINN Published: January 29, 2011] Milton Babbitt, an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. He was 94 and lived in Princeton, N.J. more intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse...my kind of music. Quote
AllenLowe Posted January 30, 2011 Report Posted January 30, 2011 (edited) strangest thing that ever happened to me, about 20 years ago I had to call the office of the Princeton department of music - well, Milton Babbit picked up the phone. I was a bit flustered. nice man.I think he even took a message for someone. Edited January 30, 2011 by AllenLowe Quote
fasstrack Posted December 31, 2015 Report Posted December 31, 2015 Didn't Stephen Sondheim study with him for a while? Quote
fasstrack Posted January 4, 2016 Report Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) On 12/31/2015 at 11:18 AM, fasstrack said: Didn't Stephen Sondheim study with him for a while? I just answered my own question in reading this Sondheim interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim Edited January 4, 2016 by fasstrack Quote
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