In a pre-performance interview with Paul Griffiths, composer Christian Wolff will discusses his work and his close connection to the avant-garde, both in America and the UK, and his association with major artists such as John Cage and Morton Feldman.
The interview is free to concert ticket holders. The interview will take place at 7.30pm in St.Nicholas Church Dundalk on 30 May 2015.
Paul Griffiths
Paul Griffiths, is a British music critic, novelist and librettist. He is particularly noted for his writings on modern classical music and for having written the libretti for two 20th century operas, Tan Dun’s Marco Polo and Elliott Carter’s What Next?.
Paul Griffiths was born in Bridgend, Glamorgan, in 1947. For thirty years he worked as a music critic, in London and later New York, and he has written many books on music, as well as novels, stories and librettos. His first novel, Myself and Marco Polo (Chatto and Windus, 1989), won a Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. He is married, with two sons, and lives in Manorbier.
A Member of the Welsh Academy, he is also a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2002). His most recent publication is The Tilted Cup: Noh Stories (2013), a first for Wales in the prestigious Sylph Editions Cahier series. Also this year, a concert work by Hans Abrahamsen, based on his novel let me tell you, will be performed by Barbara Hannigan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Griffiths_(writer)