Stephan von Huene
By Walter Tenten
Hello Ron!
In the course of the digest of April,10 you were asking about "Stephen Von Hume". I think I can help you with some newer information about him.
I looked into my personal archive and dug out a programme of the 1994 Donaueschinger Musiktage. I was attending this festival because Juergen Hocker had there a most impressive performance of Nancarrows Study Nr. 40 for two player pianos which could be presented live on two Ampico pianos for the first time ever, due to an electro-pneumatic controller, that Horst Mohr and me had built for this purpose. Horst and I have reported about that in our introductions to the group before.
When I looked up the programme of these days I found on the pages just following the contribution of Wolfgang Heisig to this festival a very detailled biography of Stephan von Huene (ue like it is written and not u Umlaut). Stephan presented an installation (Zauberfloete) in a small pavillion in the beautiful park of the Count of Fuerstenberg, that resides in Donaueschingen. He had placed some "towers" with flutes and bells in the four corners of this pavillion. The instruments were controlled by a computer, that sensed the presence and the movements of the visitors.
Stephan von Huene is living in Hamburg since 1980 and is very well acquainted with Gyoergy Ligeti (in this case oe stands for o Umlaut), that lives also in Hamburg. The composer Ligety is very fond of the oeuvre of Conlon Nancarrow. Ligeti has also written compositions for player piano, including pieces for two (synchronized) pianos.
You see, we are all living in a small world.
Regards, Walter
PS: Investigating the rest of the Donaueschingen printed programme I found a composer Manfred Stahnke, who at least part time has lived in the US (Ill. and Ca.). I think, I better stop here. |
(Message sent Mon 15 Apr 1996, 20:17:32 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.) |
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