Henri Dutilleux: Music--mystery and Memory : Conversations with Claude Glayman

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I -- The portrait of Chopin -- An anxious child -- Of bells and belfries -- Paris. The Conservatoire - 'Artists' Entrance' -- 'In the style of ... ' -- Interlude at the Villa Medici -- From the Occupation to the Liberation - in search of an aesthetic -- Genevieve Joy -- Pelléas in September 1940 -- With Grémillon, Fano and Pialat -- Opus 1 -- The ORTF- the First Symphony -- Serialism: historical necessity or terrorism? -- Désormiére, Münch, Ansermet -- Les Ballets de Paris - Le Loup -- On Jean Cassou -- 'Le Double', via Münch -- Memory, not leitmotif -- Malraux's support for music -- Métaboles for George Szell -- May 1968 -- Tout un monde lointain -- On the name 'Sacher' -- Aren't the notes enough? -- Nocturnes- Timbres, Espace, Mouvement -- Ainsi Ia nuit- the economy of the string quartet -- Mystere de l'instant -- Festivals -- L'arbre des songes -- Le Jeu des contraires and subsequent works -- Twenty-four strings and a cimbalom -- Against the tide or unclassifiable? -- Science and music -- French music and the outside world -- Hedonism -- Living by composing -- The Ile Saint-Louis -- The star system - artistic fetishism -- From Sarah Vaughan to Cathy Berberian -- The voice, at last? -- II -- Eighty years old - Tanglewood -- Competitions for 2000? -- Reworkings -- Piano problems -- On the borders of music -- An individual style -- New music or innovative music? -- For the Boston Orchestra and Ozawa -- On mystery -- Notes -- List of works -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index of names