[silence] Horaţiu Rădulescu has died

[Etha Williams]

Some of Radulescu's music can be heard through the wonderful Avant Garde
Project, which transcribes OOP LPs (and occasionally OOP CDs) to digital
.flac files:

AGP 85:
http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp85/index.htm (flute works)
AGP 109-111:
http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp109/index.htm (Inner Time II)
http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp110/index.htm (Sensual Sky, Iubiri)
http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp111/index.htm (Clepsydra, Astray)

My favorites are 'Dizzy Divinity' (one of the flute works on #85) and 'Inner
Time II'. The latter's somber mood sets an appropriately somber, reflective
tone for this sad occasion. In memoriam.

-Etha Williams


2008/9/29 Richard Friedman <rchrd@rchrd.com>

> This is depressing. I interviewed him about 20 years ago for KPFA, and have
> presented some of his recorded music occasionally on the radio. He was a
> strange person. (Some one used "bizarre" once, in French). But his music was
> quite exacting. In our interview (I wonder if I can find it) he seemed very
> taken by the fact that we were born on the same day (Jan 6 in NYC would have
> been Jan 7 in Europe), but two years earlier. This seemed to create a sort
> of bond between us in his mind that somehow escaped me. Perhaps something
> lost in translation. His English was not that good, and my French
> embarrassingly poor.
>
> Over the years he did manage to send me (or have his publisher send me) new
> recordings of his work, which always impressed me in their extra-musical
> construction ... details that without explanation would certainly not be
> perceived merely by listening.
>
> Clearly, his ears were indeed larger than anyone else's.
>
> This is sad, because he never got the recognition he sought. The reason I
> was able to interview him so long ago was that he had been sent to San
> Francisco to try to convince the S.F. Symphony to play his music. That
> mission failed.
>
> Extremely sad.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Rod Stasick <rod@stasick.org> wrote:
>
>> Very sad and too young at only 66.
>> I could only find a French and Romanian mention,
>> but English obits may soon be available:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/4aus4t
>>
>> If you are unfamiliar with this composer,
>> you can check here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatiu_Radulescu
>>
>> (R)ø∂
>>
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