Bruno Maderna - interview

01.1970

WEFM, Chicago / George Stone & Alan Stout  

Bruno Maderna (1920 Venice-1973 Darmstadt), Italian-German composer, conductor, teacher; also antifascist Resistenza-hero. One of the most insightful, amiable, stringent, vivid and creative musicians of the last century speaks out and, in spite of being critically ill, in his typical unassuming, humorous way at that.

He adresses his career and beginnings with Malipiero and Scherchen, Virgil Thompson's intervention, orchestras, their conductors, lack of education and their policies, especially vis à vis the new music and rehearsing it, and the innate stupidity of culture industry. The gravity towards Schoenbergianism.

Also included a curious anecdote that he recalls, about Hans Rosbaud concerning the composer Anton Webern... Enjoy.

For WEFM in Chicago, January, 1970. With George Stone & Alan Stout.