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Paul Griffiths Interview
Posted on Saturday, September 11, 2004. © Copyright 2004-2008 David Bruce
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C:T talks to Paul Griffiths, acclaimed author on new music, writer, librettist, critic and much more. His textbooks 'Modern Music' and 'Modern Music and after' are classics in their field. His work as a librettist includes on Elliot Carter's first opera 'What Next?'.
What do you see as the future for contemporary music?
I would hope for a future less concerned with the future than with the
present.
As a student in the late 80s I attended a talk/discussion you gave in which you seemed to have lost faith with
newspaper-based music criticism. Do you still feel the same? What useful
purpose can such a critic serve?
If I had doubts in the 1980s they would have to be compounded now, when it is no longer possible to deal with music in newspapers at any length or with any seriousness. My main hopes as a critic were (a) to communicate what happened to people who cared, and (b) to maintain the visibility of music for the benefit of people who didn't care but had power. Such hopes are unsustainable in the present newspaper climate.
Interview by David Bruce © Copyright 2004-2008
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