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45. In Memoriam, Joel Chadabe

  • Sharon Kanach (author)
Chapter of: Meta-Xenakis: New Perspectives on Iannis Xenakis’s Life, Work, and Legacies(pp. 719–720)

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Title45. In Memoriam, Joel Chadabe
ContributorSharon Kanach (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0390.47
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0390/chapters/10.11647/obp.0390.47
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightSharon Kanach
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-10-09
Long abstractThe inimitable Joel Chadabe…friend, colleague, proverbial big brother for so many. The one and only person I have ever known who never pronounced the words ‘no’ or ‘impossible’. In this Tribute, we hear from some of the people most touched by you: Bill Blakeney, Mike Kupietz, Lori Freedman, Peter Beyls, Roger Reynolds—in either words or music—or both. What better occasion to render homage than in the Meta-Xenakis celebration, as Xenakis too would have been right there, had he been able, in recognizing and giving thanks for everything you did to champion his music: from releasing the first CD of his electronic works on your EMF label, to all the concerts and events you organized over the years in North America. When, at the Xenakis Project of the Americas in 2017, we toyed with the idea of creating an oral history around Xenakis in America, you enthusiastically volunteered to be our ‘guinea pig’ and do a pilot interview, with Olga Touloumi, Laura Cocks, and Anne Lanzilotti. Several significant excerpts from that hour-long interview are rendered public here for the first time, supporting the Chadabe motto: ‘Our mission is to create a gift of knowledge for future generations’.
Page rangepp. 719–720
Print length2 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Sharon Kanach

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Co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) at University of Rouen

The American musician Sharon Kanach first went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger. Very quickly however, in 1978, her path crossed that of Iannis Xenakis, with whom she studied and collaborated closely, especially on his writings (Arts/Sciences: Alloys; Formalized Music; Music and Architecture…). With the publisher Pendragon Press (recently closed) she was the editor of the Xenakis Series where a total of six books were produced. In 2009, she founded the Xenakis Project of the Americas under the auspices of the Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the Graduate Center of City University of New York and is currently Co-president of the Centre Iannis Xenakis (CIX) based at the Université de Rouen Normandie (France), under the auspices of the research lab Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis). Between 2013–23, she was on the Editorial Committee of Circuit, musiques contemporaines. In 2022, under her directorship, the CIX initiated the Meta-Xenakis Consortium to celebrate the centenary of Xenakis’s birth. Kanach has been promoted to “Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture.