“I entered a territory where I had not a single point of orientation, where I basically had to storm in, breaking a new path for myself. There had to be nothing from the past. In Russian fairy tales the hero is always given a choice at the crossroads, which appears in the form of a writing on a prophetic stone: ‘If you go right, you will find your wife; if you go left, you will lose your horse; if you go straight, you will perish.’ And he always chooses to go straight. This is important.” — The Russian composer Victoria Polevá, who has been identified as a member of the “sacred minimalist” tradition along with Arvo Pärt and Vladimír Godár, sits down with our very own editor-in-chief, Taylor Davis-Van Atta, to discuss the influence of Donne and Schiller on her music, her attraction to early music, and her own moment of transformation in the late 1990’s. A fascinating interview with one of Eastern Europes most original composers, now live on our feature page: musicandliterature.org/features/2014/3/10/a-conversation-with-victoria-polev
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:36:41 +0000
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