Some forum members might be aware of Konrad and his work as composer, teacher and writer on musical and political issues. I remember him as a good and loyal friend for over twenty years.
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I hadn't encountered his Music before your postings, RB - his profile has been very low in the UK; I don't think he's even been featured at Huddersfield? And was he really only 19/20 when he wrote Position? An astonishingly succesful achievement by any standards!
I hope there's a Hear & Now retrospective: I have some catching up to be done with this Music.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT] -
I'm bound to say there are hundreds of really interesting composers who have never been featured at Huddersfield! Anyway, yes indeed, Position was a very early work written under the influence of Stockhausen whom K first met at the age of 18. Most of his most characteristic pieces were written quite early on because his various other responsibilities reduced the time he had available later on. His opera Doktor Faustus from the early 1980s was quite a success, but much of his more recent work hasn't been performed much if at all, including a big piece for chorus and orchestra which I think (I hope!) he managed to finish. The piano piece In illo tempore from 1979 is also impressive; it's been recorded by Nic Hodges. Most of his scores can be freely downloaded from http://www.kboehmer.nl/Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Position, I now remember from my dad's reel-to-reel "downloads" which I used to play frequently, was broadcast on what must have been Music In Our Time back in 1967 devoted to electronic music, including also a tape piece by Johannes Fritsch whose title I now forget, Stockhausen's Mikrophonie II and Varese's Poeme Electronique. That is all Boehmer's music I ever registered being broadcast by the BBC in for than 50 years' worth of my own listening.Comment
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