Give my regards to Eighth Street : collected writings of Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman wrote as he composed music, carefully placing one element after another, producing some of the avant-garde's most lucid considerations of what it means to make music Morton Feldman (1926–87) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century, a man whose music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty (while Feldman himself was famously large and loud). Karlheinz Stockhausen once asked the composer what his "secret" was: "I don't push the sounds around," Feldman replied. His writings resemble his music in their quiet steadiness, their oscillations between assertion and doubt. They are also funny and illuminating, not only about his own music but about the entire New York School of painters, poets and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including Feldman's friends Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O'Hara and John Cage. Give My Regards to Eighth Street is an authoritative collection of Feldman's writings, culled from published articles, program notes, LP liners, lectures, interviews and unpublished writings. It is one of those rare books from which anyone can draw inspiration, no matter what the vocation or discipline. Sound, Noise, Varèse, Boulez (1958) -- Liner Notes (1962) -- Structures For Orchestra (1962) -- Mr. Schuller's History Lesson (1963) -- Marginal Intersection, Intersection Ii, Intermission Vi (1963) -- Vertical Thoughts (1963) -- A Life Without Bach And Beethoven (1964) -- --out Of Last Pieces (1965) -- Four Instruments (1965) -- The Anxiety Of Art (1965) -- Predeterminate/indeterminate (1965) -- Philip Guston : The Last Painter (1966) -- In Memoriam : Edgard Varèse (1966) -- Earle Brown (1966) -- Boola Boola (1966) -- Conversations Without Stravinsky (1967) -- Some Elementary Questions (1967) -- After Modernism (1967) -- Neither/nor (1969) -- Between Categories (1969) -- The Viola In My Life (1971-72) -- False Relationships And The Extended Ending (1971) -- Give My Regards To Eighth Street (1971) -- Who Was Sonia Sekula? (1971) -- Frank O'hara : Lost Times And Future Hopes (1972) -- A Compositional Problem (1972) -- I Met Heine On The Rue Fürstemberg (1973) -- John De Menil (1973) -- Statement (1975) -- Rothko Chapel (1976) -- For Frank O'hara (1976) -- Philip Guston : 1980 : The Last Works (1989) -- String Quartet (1981) -- Crippled Symmetry (1981) -- More Light (1982) -- Triadic Memories (1982) -- The Future Of Local Music (1984) -- String Quartet Ii (1984) -- For Philip Guston (1986) -- Coptic Light (1986) -- I Want To Thank (1986) -- Unpublished Writings. Edited & With An Introduction By B.h. Friedman ; Afterword By Frank O'hara. Includes Introductory Essay, Morton Feldman : Painting Sounds / By B. H. Friedman; And Afterword, New Directions In Music : Morton Feldman / By Frank O'hara. Includes Bibliographic Sources (p. [218]-222). Cultural Writing. Art. Music. The American composer Morton Feldman reflects in this collection of writings on music, art, and the New York School of painters, poets, and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including his friends Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauchenberg, Frank O'Hara, and John Cage