911: stockhausen, dario fo

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

for some it is not only much but, obviously, much too much ... in a press 
conference which got taped by the nordeutsche rundfunk (northern german radio), 
karlheinz stockhausen, the german composer of neue musik mentioned in col49, 
said recently (the translations are my own from page 49 of today's faz): "it's 
the greatest work of art that there ever can be for the whole cosmos ... that 
spirits commit in an act something , about which we in music cannot even dream, 
that people practise for ten years like madmen, completely fanatic in 
expectation of the great concert, and then die, just imagine what happened 
there! thus there are people, so concentrated on the presentation, and then 5000 
people are hunted into the resurrection [dann werden 5000 leute in die 
auferstehung gejagt], in just one moment. i wouldn't be able to do so. against 
this we are nothing, as composers." asked by a journalists whether art and crime 
are the same, stumpfhausen said: "a crime it is, because the people did not 
accept it. they did not want to hear the concert. that's clear." hello, hello, 
is there anybody in there?! & there's more bad news. dario fo, that fuckingly 
boring asshole writer, he told the world per e-mail: "the great speculators take 
a lustful bath in an economy which, year by year, lets millions of people die in 
poverty - what, taken this, are then 20 000 dead people in new york? no matter 
who did this - this violence is the legitimated daughter of a culture of 
violence, hunger, and exploitation." fuck you once and fuck you twice 'cause 
you're just a little scheiß! kai frederik (selling kisses for the army fund)