George Rochberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 275396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Rochberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Rochberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHBERG G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Guston and me
By comparing Philip Guston's career as a painter with mine as a composer I establish a parallelism which suggests a Zeitgeist was at work. That Zeitgeist is best characterized as a digression from traditional figurative/tonal methods of working to embracing abstract modes of modernism followed by a return to tradition viewed against the abstraction experience. I posit that this produced the tension between concreteness and abstraction which now p…
Serenade
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
News of the Culture or News of the Universe
There is widespread and justified concern over the steady decline of culture in America—and in the West generally. In this article I examine the societal forces I believe to be largely responsible for this disquieting tendency. Among them I identify the loss of psychic and intellectual immunity to Bad Art; the century-long slide into vulgarity, tawdriness, and sleaziness, which have helped turn America into the Land of Entertainment; the loss of …
Fiddlers and Fribbles, or, Is Art a Separate Reality
Q F HIS PURITAN ancestors, Hawthorne had this to say: aim that I have ever cherished would they recognize as laudable; no success of mine ... would they deem otherwise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful. 'What is he?' murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other. 'A writer of story-books! What kind of life-what mode of God or being to mankind his and may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!' …
Kramer vs. Kramer
Can the Arts Survive Modernism? (A Discussion of the Characteristics, History, and Legacy of Modernism)
The Study of Music at University. 8
The Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Survival
T TAKES some sense of history, however vague or dim, just to utter term in relation to aesthetic and stylistic problems of art. Implicit in term, for me, is handy, if fanciful image of the irreversible arrow of time; and it is generally assumed that avant-garde either sits on point of that arrow, penetrating to next unfolding moment of time, or perhaps even occupies whole of arrowhead itself, sharp cutting edges ending in point which will tear in…
The Hexachord and Its Relation to the Twelve-Note Row
Kramer vs. Kramer
Can the Arts Survive Modernism? (A Discussion of the Characteristics, History, and Legacy of Modernism)
The Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Survival
T TAKES some sense of history, however vague or dim, just to utter term in relation to aesthetic and stylistic problems of art. Implicit in term, for me, is handy, if fanciful image of the irreversible arrow of time; and it is generally assumed that avant-garde either sits on point of that arrow, penetrating to next unfolding moment of time, or perhaps even occupies whole of arrowhead itself, sharp cutting edges ending in point which will tear in…
The Hexachord and Its Relation to the Twelve-Note Row
The Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Survival
T TAKES some sense of history, however vague or dim, just to utter term in relation to aesthetic and stylistic problems of art. Implicit in term, for me, is handy, if fanciful image of the irreversible arrow of time; and it is generally assumed that avant-garde either sits on point of that arrow, penetrating to next unfolding moment of time, or perhaps even occupies whole of arrowhead itself, sharp cutting edges ending in point which will tear in…
The Study of Music at University. 8
Can the Arts Survive Modernism? (A Discussion of the Characteristics, History, and Legacy of Modernism)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Fiddlers and Fribbles, or, Is Art a Separate Reality
Q F HIS PURITAN ancestors, Hawthorne had this to say: aim that I have ever cherished would they recognize as laudable; no success of mine ... would they deem otherwise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful. 'What is he?' murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other. 'A writer of story-books! What kind of life-what mode of God or being to mankind his and may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!' …
News of the Culture or News of the Universe
There is widespread and justified concern over the steady decline of culture in America—and in the West generally. In this article I examine the societal forces I believe to be largely responsible for this disquieting tendency. Among them I identify the loss of psychic and intellectual immunity to Bad Art; the century-long slide into vulgarity, tawdriness, and sleaziness, which have helped turn America into the Land of Entertainment; the loss of …
Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra
Guston and me
By comparing Philip Guston's career as a painter with mine as a composer I establish a parallelism which suggests a Zeitgeist was at work. That Zeitgeist is best characterized as a digression from traditional figurative/tonal methods of working to embracing abstract modes of modernism followed by a return to tradition viewed against the abstraction experience. I posit that this produced the tension between concreteness and abstraction which now p…
Serenade
Art (8 works) · Art history (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)