11/09/2002

"This is the greatest work of art, the greatest ever undertaken in the whole Cosmos. Imagine what happened. All those people, concentrating on the performance, and suddenly 5,000 people are transferred to resurrection, in one go. I couldn't do that. Compared to this, we are nothing, as composers. [...] It's a crime for the one reason that the participants weren't free to chose. They didn't come to the 'concert', that's pretty clear, and nobody warned them about the possibility of biting the dust. But the things that happened on a mental level, this leaping out of security, out of the generally accepted, out of life, those things sometimes occur poco a poco in art as well. Otherwise, art would be nothing." Karlheinz Stockhausen