by Roger Trefousse | May 17, 2014 | Process
The musician is the magus, the alchemist who transforms notes into sound, intervals into meaning, harmony and counterpoint into magical utterance. I had the good fortune to study with some of the pre-eminent modernists of the day, with the composers Ben Weber,...
by Roger Trefousse | May 17, 2014 | Composers
I’m reading Pierre Cabane’s Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp—conversations with Duchamp in the last year of his life– and Give My Regards to Eighth Street, Morton Feldman’s collected writings, and it’s all mixing in my head–chess, chance, inspiration...
by Roger Trefousse | Apr 23, 2014 | Performers
I’m in my midtown apartment, sunlight streaming through the south-facing windows, and I’m watering Grete Sultan’s cactus, which I saved from being abandoned on a street corner in the West Village. A few days after her death, I went to Grete’s...
by Roger Trefousse | Apr 22, 2014 | Articles
Note: This article was originally published on the ACA Website When ACA Director Gina Genova asked me to write an article about Ben Weber in honor of ACA’s upcoming 75th anniversary celebration, I spent a lot of time staring at my computer, wondering how to...
by Roger Trefousse | Apr 22, 2014 | Articles
Roger Trefousse: Taking Opera Into The Millennium Sheridan Sansegundo | February 25, 1999 The composer Roger Trefousse lives in one of those perfect little Sag Harbor houses with wide plank floors and intricate moldings that were built when the village was a booming...
