Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress
- Editor: DeLong, Kenneth
- Editor: Elliott, Robin
- Editor: Sallis, Friedemann
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Contents
- List of Examples
- List of Plates and Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Friedemann Sallis
- First Word
- 1 Istvan Anhalt: A Character Sketch John Beckwith (University of Toronto)
- 2 Kurtag, as I Know Him Gergely Szokolay
- 3 ""A Kind of Musical Autobiography"": Reading Traces in Sandor Veress's Orbis tonorum Claudio Veress
- Place and Displacement
- 4 Of the Centre, Periphery; Exile, Liberation; Home and the Self Istvan Anhalt (Queen's University)
- 5 Istvan Anhalt's Kingston Triptych Robin Elliott (University of Toronto)
- 6 Istvan Anhalt's The Tents Of Abraham: Where Music Cannot Heal, Let It Be Restored William Benjamin (University of British Columbia)
- 7 Which Displacement? Tracing Exile in the Postwar Compositions of Istvan Anhalt and Matyas Seiber Florian Scheding (University of Southampton)
- 8 Letters to America Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- 9 Roots and Routes: Travel and Translation in Istvan Anhalt's Operas Gordon Smith (Queen's University)
- 10 Le fonds Istvan Anhalt (MUS 164) a Bibliotheque et Archives Canada : auto-construction du compositeur et role du lieu dans son oeuvre Rachelle Chiasson-Taylor (Bibliotheque et archives Canada)
- Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation
- 11 Sewing Earth to Sky: Istvan Anhalt and the Pedagogy of Transformation Austin Clarkson (York University)
- 12 Gyoergy Kurtag's Jatekok: A ""Voyage"" into the Child's Musical Mind Stefano Melis (Conservatorio di musica ""L. Canepa"" di Sassari)
- 13 Arracher la figure au figuratif: la musique vocale de Gyoergy Kurtag Alvaro Oviedo (Universite Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis)
- 14 Dirges and Ditties: Gyoergy Kurtag's Latest Settings of Poetry by Anna Akhmatova Julia Galieva-Szokolay (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto)
- 15 Interpreting Gyoergy Kurtag and George Crumb: Through the Looking Glass Dina Lentsner (Capital University, Columbus, Ohio)
- The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music
- 16 Gyoergy Kurtag et Walter Benjamin : considerations sur l'aura dans la musique Jean-Paul Olive (Universite Paris 8, Vincennes Saint-Denis)
- 17 What Presence of the Past? Artistic Autobiography in Gyoergy Kurtag's Music Ulrich Mosch (Paul Sacher Foundation)
- 18 ""Listening to inner voices"": Istvan Anhalt's Sonance*Resonance (Welche Toene?) Alan Gillmor (Carleton University)
- 19 Music Written from Memory in the Late Work of Istvan Anhalt Friedemann Sallis (University of Calgary)
- Final Word
- 20 On Doubleness and Life in Canada: An Interview with Istvan Anhalt
- The Contributors
- Index