Nostalgia for the Future – Luigi Nono`s Selected Writings and Interviews

"Nostalgia for the Future makes available a representative selection of Nono’s writings as well as his major interviews in English for the first time. Finally English-speaking readers will have access to Nono’s courageous and humane vision of how music can impact the real world, a message that has new and urgent relevance today."—Anne C. Shreffler, Harvard University "We are only just beginning to incorporate Luigi Nono into our understanding of ourselves as musicians. Too many musicians are not aware, or are only peripherally aware, of Nono’s music, let alone his influential ideas about music. Until now, the lack of an English translation of his writings has been perhaps the most significant obstacle. Nostalgia For the Future opens the door to Nono’s provocative and personal voice. It will change scholarship, not just about Nono but about music."—Eric Chasalow, composer, Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, and Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio "What most impressed me each time Luigi Nono and I met was his inspiring humanism, his deep open-mindedness and broad vision about the world, and his staggering capacity to penetrate my imagination and, through our dialogue, let it discern other utopias. His writings beautifully convey these outstanding qualities of a unique composer in his generation. Extraordinarily stimulating, moving, and much needed nowadays."—Marco Stroppa, composer and Professor of Composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart "Nostalgia for the Future brings the reader closer to Nono—thinker, composer, continuously reformulating explorer—than one would have thought possible. The dedicated editors have undertaken their task in a rigorous and assiduous manner, forging a document in…