Superfluities Redux

On culture and theatre, by George Hunka

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Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Videos

Three short videos today, comparative rarities. First, there's this 1949 interview from American radio with the composer Arnold Schönberg, who discusses his paintings, his music and his influences:

Also on music, and as a final in memoriam for Karlheinz Stockhausen, below is an English-language profile of the composer, with a few seconds of Stockhausen in rehearsal and an interview with the almost comically uncomfortable artist (watch as he bolts from the set at the end of the piece):

Finally, German dramatist and poet Heiner Müller reads his poem "The Odor of Soap" in the following clip from the 1993 film I Was Hamlet, directed and photographed by Dominik Barbier:

Clips courtesy YouTube.

Posted at 8.55 am in /Videos

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