Does the World have a Sound

The title refers to a saying often heard in the 60s. That in order to deserve its name new music must truthfully reflect the sound of the world. Whether it's nice or not.

• Apollo and Dionysus - Witold Lutoslawski 
• Madness in the method - Peter Maxwell Davies 
• Faith and wonder - Per Nørgård and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 
• Per Nørgård's worldview 
• Performance problems 
• To whome belong the songs that we sing? 
• A mirror in a mirror 
• Music and the falling of the walls 
• The clockworks of music – and in-between 
• Some confessions of a teacher animal 
• To gather oneself
• The magic of numbers - or Bach's secret 
• Fantastique - Hector Berlioz and the orchestra 
• The last Puritan? - Johannes Brahms 
• An honorable death? - Tchaikovsky and the independence of myths 
• What happened to Bruckner?  
• Greatness and convenience - Richard Strauss 
• "This vague impressionism" - Claude Debussy 
• Double natures - Rued Langgaard and Carl Nielsen 
• Music as a hostage - Stravinsky and the Philosopher 
• The uprising against the sounds - Charles Ives 
• The third man - Henry Cowell 
• The Composer as a carpenter - Harry Partch 
• The third dimension of music - Conlon Nancarrow 
• Time, silence and infinity - George Crumb 
• Conversation in Elysium - Morton Feldman 
• The fullness of time - Bernd Alois Zimmermann 
• The impossible possibility of beauty - Luigi Nono 
• The starmap of melodies - Claude Vivier