Table of Contents
Contents: Foreword, Michael Parsons; Preface, Stephen Chase and Philip Thomas; Part I Reception, History: 'Our Webern': Cage and Feldman's devotion to Christian Wolff, Michael Hicks; Christian Wolff in Darmstadt, 1972 and 1974, Amy C. Beal. Part II The Music: For pianist: the solo piano music, Philip Thomas; Mutual effects: organization and interaction in the orchestral music of Christian Wolff, James Saunders; Exercising the ensemble: some thoughts on the later music of Christian Wolff, Christopher Fox. Part III Politics: Changing the system: indeterminacy and politics in the early 1970s, David Ryan; 'There is always a time': words, music, politics and voice, Stephen Chase. Part IV Performance: Prose Collection: the performer and listener as co-creator, Clemens Gresser; Playing the game? 5 reflections upon performing Christian Wolff's music, Philip Thomas; List of works; Bibliography; Discography; Index.