Abstract of the Commemorative lecture
An Extended Autobiography
I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." When I am asked now to tell of critical incidents, persons and events which have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
My commemorative lecture is an autobiographical statement which presents some of these incidents, persons and events and indicates generally, and sometimes specifically, how they have affected my work.
The following paragraph occurs toward the end.
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their minds about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know it's definition in the dictionary nor its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in relation to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
This represents my present point of view.
