2007/06/01 by Amy C. Beal · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Musicology and Musical Analysis #Dozen #Subject (documents) #Reading (process) #History #Art history #Library science #Law #Political science
paper · doi:10.1080/07494460701414223
published in Contemporary Music Review 26(3-4), 341-356 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2007/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The following is an edited transcription of a telephone interview the author conducted with Earle Brown on 23 June 1997 (she was at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan; he was at his home in Rye, New York). Questions have been removed to allow more fluid reading. The stories he tells here largely reflect the nature of the interview questions, which focused primarily on Brown's (and Morton Feldman's) professional activities and reception in West Germany. This particular interview with Earle Brown was the very first of several dozen interviews the author has conducted with composers and musicians in Europe and the United States, interviews that form the foundation of all of her historical research. She has always felt lucky that her first attempt was welcomed so graciously by such a generous, patient and light-hearted subject.