Talk:Morton Feldman
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[edit] Edgard Varese Professor
Feldman became the Edgard Varese Professor at the University at Buffalo. Prior to that time, Feldman had earned his living as a full time employee at the family textile business in New York's garment district.
Would someone care to explain this title? I know what a professor is, and who Edgard Varese was, but what on earth is an Edgard Varese Professor? Giamberardino 00:56, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- This is probably an endowed chair. Someone gives a heap of cash to the school, and the interest from the investment of said cash (usually along with some of the school's own money) is used to establish a professorship, or at least give a nice raise to a professor. The donor then gets to name the professorship after himself (The Hubert R. Moneybags Chair in Sociology), or his no-good kid, or Pepsi-Cola, or whoever else he likes (such as Varese). 64.4.98.244 23:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Arguing with his teachers
Feldman studied ... composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe. He did not agree with many of the views of these composition teachers, and he spent much of his time simply arguing with them.
From the book "Soundpieces: Interviews With American Composers" (by Cole Gagne and Tracy Caras; Metuchen, N.J. & London: Scarecrow Press, 1982) :
Q: All we've been able to read about your studies with Stefan Wolpe was that the two of you argued all the time.
FELDMAN: I'm very sorry about that: Stefan was hurt when he read that. We talked a lot - that's about all I really meant.
24.209.106.228 (talk) 16:58, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
