Osvaldo Golijov: Depression and divorce stopped me composing
NewsThe Argentine-US composer has given a fascinating interview at a Finnish festival on his midlife silence:
‘It was due to many things in life, such as a divorce. I had never had the fear of a blank page before. Or actually it wasn’t even then, because I was still composing every day, but the next day I threw the previous day’s results in the trash. Not interested. I couldn’t maintain interest in developing ideas.
‘But now that I’m not depressed, I realize that the Beatles’ Hey Jude is sung just right: everything can be made better, even if the first version is on the bad side. If you can work, it can be great!’
Read on here.
Would love to read more but my Finnish is a bit rusty.
Paste the article into deepl.com for a good translation.
I never managed to start Finnish …