[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.



Sort of like Wagner.  Can we ever separate the artist from the person... 
They eventually allowed Wagner to be played in Israel.

tOM
http://www.myspace.com/electrex



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.


> In general, invoking "Lucifer" in a positive sense does not further
> endear yourself to the sort of audience that doesn't see terrorist
> acts as a form of art.
>
> TH
>
> On Dec 8, 2007 7:44 AM, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:
>> This is what he himself said about it afterward:
>>
>> "At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and
>> Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they
>> exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined
>> Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high
>> degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. After
>> further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan
>> appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the
>> designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified in
>> Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal."
>>
>