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The Composer as Seer, but not Prophet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Claire Polin
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Have composers developed a new role in our time? Are creative musicians today, by the gifts given to them, foretelling Armageddon, the musical Nostrodamuses of our day? Does Steve Reich's recent opera The Cave, despite its avowed peaceful message, actually foretell the Hebron massacre of last February? Are the sombre works of the Russian composers Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina predicting events of a similar nature, which are just waiting to be interpreted from the musical sounds to meaningful dialogue?

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 190 , September 1994 , pp. 13 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1 Brodsky, Joseph, A Part of Speech, New York, 1975 Google Scholar.

2 Kupriyanov, Vyacheslav, An Epidemic, Anthology of 20th Century Russian Poetry, ed. Todd, & Hayward, , New York, 1994 Google Scholar.

3 Aleksandr Soprovsky, from Two Poems, Anthology of 20th Century Russian Poetry, ibid.