April 14, 2006
Milton Babbitt: Speaking Truth Through Music
This year Milton Babbitt celebrates his 90th birthday. Few 20th-century American composers have been as vital, productive, combative, and controversial. Babbitt has succeeded in achieving prominence and notoriety within not only the world of music but the university as well.
His music, however, remains less present in the repertory than his fame implies. The celebration of a milestone birthday should lead to more performances and recordings, but Babbitt's legendary brilliance has
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