Drawing: copyright by Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson
The Voice of New Music
This drawing comes from the very interesting book The Voice of New
Music by the American composer
Tom Johnson.
Published by the Apollohuis, Eindhoven, in 1989 it brings together
texts, which Tom Johnson has written for the Village Voice in
New York during the years 1972 until 1982. A
digital version
of the book could be downloaded from the web.
"Tom Johnson recorded the emergence of a generation of composers and musicians which has
set out to probe once more all conventions of the Western musical tradition and to remove
the barriers between different cultures and various artistic disciplines. That process
is still in full swing. Therefore it is of interest today to read how that process was
triggered." (Paul Panhuysen, Editor)
