Stockhausen is from outer space

[deggy]

Anybody who coordinates everything down to the colour of his cardigan on any given day using a serial system

[Peel]

I asked him about the logistics of putting on the complete cycle of the operas, because on paper, it looks ludicrously impractical, including a string quartet - which the Arditti Quartet have recorded - in which each player performs, airborne, from their own helicopter. Seriously.

Brilliant!

[waiting man]

..."The real challenge," Stockhausen wrote to me, "is to find seven stage directors and stage designers, seven conductors, five orchestras, one children's orchestra, nine professional choirs, two children's choirs, one girls' choir, seven sound projectionists, seven sound technicians, many soloists...

oh, my. The simple idea of the worried faces of all this people performing on helicopters makes me laugh to the tears. and the "wife selector" thing is too much.
good thread.