Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

> From: "Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 8:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Stockhausen, R.I.P.
>
>
>> In general, invoking "Lucifer" in a positive sense does not further
>> endear yourself to the sort of audience that doesn't see terrorist
>> acts as a form of art.
>>
>> TH
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2007 7:44 AM, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com> wrote:
>>> This is what he himself said about it afterward:
>>>
>>> "At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and
>>> Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they
>>> exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined
>>> Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high
>>> degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. 
>After
>>> further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan
>>> appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the
>>> designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified 
>in
>>> Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal."
>
From: "Tom Rex" <tomrex1@cox.net>
>
> Sort of like Wagner.  Can we ever separate the artist from the person... 
> They eventually allowed Wagner to be played in Israel.
>

"Allowed"?  Are you referring to Bernstein's conducting of Wagner in Tel 
Aviv, he was beat up by a bunch of nationalistic thugs outside the hall 
for 
his efforts?
Stephen Goodman
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