Maestros and their motor cars (44): My other car’s a Boulez
NewsThe critic Kenneth Goldsmith spotted this tribute vehicle in Trieste, Italy, five years ago.
It’s not an official Opel. Just un hommage.
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Free association:
‘Orchestration is also notation. (…) Instruments are like James Bond, you know, takes a “shhhh”, he gets out of the building. Instruments are like James Bond. Crazy Karlheinz is after you, the automobile goes “krchh”. Instruments are like that, they get you out of situations which you should not be in.’
– Morton Feldman, from a lecture in 1984.
Wow! Color me as unimpressed
A string quartet could perform together in four of them.
There is a story that in the seventies of the last century a French oboist sported a deux-chevaux with ‘Iannis Xenakis’ engraved on all four doors and ‘Metastasis’ in gold letters on the back side, being the musician’s favorite work. On 29th of May 1978, Xenakis’ birthday, the poor musician drove into a ravine in the Gorges du Verdon and was never heard of again.
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