"When a great creator dies, history—including his own history—holds its breath, looks around, and wonders what to do, as if waiting for new directives or new insights that might suddenly shine through the opaque shell of habit. History waits to gather and summarize the significant episodes of creative power; it waits for a new autopsy of the organs and expressive organism of the great creator. Or it waits for a lazy and unexpected silence to be broken.
When, moreover, the great creator who dies has recently crossed the border into a new territory rich in meaning, because it has been long and organically prepared, then we wonder, distraught, what else this man might have discovered and offered us if he had lived longer. (...)."
Luciano Berio (about Stravinsky)
This beautiful text reminds me of the musicians who have inspired me so much over the years, and whose creative work I would love to see continue forever....
To name but a few, I am thinking of Klaus Schulze, Hector Zazou, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell, Morton Feldman, John Cage and so many others who are gone ...
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