Quote Originally Posted by heliocentric View Post
Nevertheless, in retrospect I think there's more continuity between Nono's revolutionary works and his "late period" than it seemed at the time. No doubt Boulez knows things that the historians and scholars don't, but I don't hear in the development of Nono's music a loss of meaning or commitment.
I've never felt there's discontinuity - Quando stanno morendo doesn't sound to me like a work of disillusionment, but rather one where Nono's passion for justice and equality burns just as powerfully (and La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura is ambiguous not resigned). It also seemed an odd thing to say given the hostility to the USSR within most radical Marxist and anarchist thought in Europe in the 1960s.