Babbitt: Portrait of a Serial Composer (Robert Hilferty documentary)
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Uploaded by straypixel on Feb 5, 2011
The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, 29 January 2011 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt. It was a quirky, loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of "difficult" music. Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009. Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilferty's film.
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52:58 "Goodnight, Robert!" :D
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50:52 Beautiful quote by Babbitt. He really was a genius.
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@ILIKECYNIC I was thinking the same thing. Really wanted to hear that analysis.
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I LOVE this documentary: it brilliantly captures the essential spirit of Babbitt's music. Just little things made me nostalgic,like seeing Tower records in the opening sequence, which no longer exsists.
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If there existed only a few sources of history of the western world in the 20th century, this would be one of them.
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Wonderful Laura. Thank you for doing this.
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Silly, Babbitt...
What a great character...and what a great doc...definitive!!...would love to hear Stanley Jordan play his composition for guitar!!
8/4/11
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It deeply saddens me that this wonderful documentary has only 8 views. Thank you for sharing this.
MichaelRHolloway 1 year ago
@MichaelRHolloway Michael, that might be because I only uploaded it yesterday! :-) It should appear in search results and suggestions boxes very soon...
straypixel 1 year ago 3