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Book Review
Aug. 3rd, 2014 08:26 pmRemembering the Future
by Luciano Berio
This book is the transcribed and edited text of Berio's Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1993. It's very interesting, but a little opaque. Berio has many interesting things to say about music. However, both his points and his language are very abstract and philosophical. I felt like I was only grasping about half of what her was saying, and that I'd have to read the book about six more times or go out and get a good grounding in 20th century European philosophy before I'd get all of it. His main preoccupations seemed to be with the relationship of music as an abstract and intellectual art and music as a performed, audible experience. Remembering the Future is well worth reading, even if I felt I wasn't really getting all of it.
by Luciano Berio
This book is the transcribed and edited text of Berio's Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1993. It's very interesting, but a little opaque. Berio has many interesting things to say about music. However, both his points and his language are very abstract and philosophical. I felt like I was only grasping about half of what her was saying, and that I'd have to read the book about six more times or go out and get a good grounding in 20th century European philosophy before I'd get all of it. His main preoccupations seemed to be with the relationship of music as an abstract and intellectual art and music as a performed, audible experience. Remembering the Future is well worth reading, even if I felt I wasn't really getting all of it.
