Paul Zukofsky

Paul Zukofsky Brooklyn New York October 22 1943 - June 6 2017 Was An American Violinist And Conductor Known For His Work In The Field Of Contemporary Classical Music. His Father Was The American Objectivist Poet Louis Zukofsky And His Mother Was Celia Thaew Zukofsky A Jewish Musician And Composer. Paul Was Of Lithuanian Jewish Heritage Through His Father. Zukofsky Studied Violin With Ivan Galamian At The Juilliard School Of Music. He Won The Young Concert Artists International Auditions In 1965. Labeled A "child Prodigy" Zukofsky Made His Public Debut At The Age Of Nine Playing The First Movement Of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Aged 13 He Gave His Debut Recital In Carnegie Hall. He Was Reported To Have Gone "through A Difficult Program Without Turning A Hair Or Moving A Facial Muscle" And Described As A "deadpan Bundle Of Talent". The New York Times Reviewer Praised His Technique But Also Said That He Played With "little Emotion". Zukofsky Specializes In Contemporary Music And Has Worked With Performed And Recorded The Works Of Such 20th-Century Composers As Milton Babbitt Arthur Berger Easley Blackwood Henry Brant John Cage Elliott Carter George Crumb Morton Feldman Philip Glass Peter Mennin Krzysztof Penderecki Walter Piston J. K. Randall Wallingford Riegger Giacinto Scelsi Artur Schnabel Roger Sessions Ralph Shapey Harvey Sollberger Stefan Wolpe Charles Wuorinen And Iannis Xenakis. He Appeared As The Character Of Albert Einstein In The 1976 Recording Of Glass's Opera Einstein On The Beach 1976 And Gave The Premiere Of Glass's Violin Concerto 1987 . John Cage Composed His Freeman Etudes - Books I And II Etudes I-XVII 1977–1980 For Zukofsky. He Released Upwards Of 60 Recordings Over His Career On The Sony Camerata CRI And CP2 Labels. Zukosfky Headed The Arnold Schoenberg Institute At The University Of Southern California At Los Angeles From 1992 To 1996. He Was Also Known For His Involvement In The Removal Of Arnold Schoenberg's Archive From The University Of Southern California. As Of 1998 This Archive Resides In The Arnold Schönberg Center In Vienna Austria. Zukofsky Formed A Recording Label Musical Observations Inc. Of Which He Is President And For Which He Has Recorded Conducted And Edited. Zukofsky Was The Guardian And Copyright Contact For His Parents Louis And Celia Zufoksky. He Maintains Tight Control Of His Parents' Archive. In 2009 Paul Zukofsky Wrote An Open Letter Telling Graduate Students And Scholars That "In General As A Matter Of Principle And For Your Own Well-Being I Urge You To Not Work On Louis Zukofsky And Prefer That You Do Not." In The Letter Paul Zukofsky Required That Graduate Students Ask Him For Permission To Quote From His Father's Works In Their Dissertations An Extremely Unusual Practice And Made It Clear That He Might Withhold Such Permission. Quoting From E. E. Cummings Presumably Without Permission He Indicated That He Believed That Scholars Write Chiefly From Self-Interest And That Their Claims That Their Scholarship Would Help Enhance Louis Zukofsky's Artistic Legacy Were Offensive I Can Perhaps Understand Your Misguided Interest In Literature Music Art Etc. I Would Be Suspicious Of Your Interest In Louis Zukofsky But Might Eventually Accept It. I Can Applaud Your Desire To Obtain A Job Any Job Although Why In Your Chosen So-Called Profession Is Quite Beyond Me But One Line You May Not Cross I.E. Never Never Ever Tell Me That Your Work Is To Be Valued By Me Because It Promotes My Father. Doing That Will Earn My Life-Long Permanent Enmity. Your Self-Interest S I May Understand Perhaps Even Agree With But Beyond That In The Words Of E.E.Cummings Quoting Olaf “there Is Some S I Will Not Eat”. Paul Zukofsky Wrote In The Letter That His Chief Concern Was To Derive Income From His Possession Of Copyrights In His Father's Work Not To Censor What Might Be Said But It Might Well Be The Case That The Unusual Difficulty And Expense Of Writing About Louis Zukofsky Will Affect The Poet's Legacy. It Has Been Pointed Out That The Claims Paul Zukofsky Makes For Having This Control Appear However To Be In Conflict With The "Code Of Best Practices In Fair Use For Poetry"
Paul Zukofsky Died On June 6 2017 At The Sanatorium Hospital In Hong Kong Of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Works
Writings
Zukofsky Paul 1976 . "On Violin Harmonics." In Perspectives On Notation And Performance Ed. Benjamin Boretz And Edward T. Cone New York Norton 1976 . Essays Reprinted From Issues Of Perspectives Of New Music. The Perspectives Of New Music Series. ISBN 0-393-02190-4. ISBN 978-0-393-02190-5. ISBN 0-393-00809-6. ISBN 978-0-393-00809-8. Recordings
The Library Congress Shows Zukofsky Has Partaken In More Than 50 Recordings Over The Past Four Decades. The Following List Is A Sample—and Only His First-Time Recordings Of Composers Appear Here For Brevity Music For A 20th-Century Violinist Anthology Of Three Decades Of American Music 1940-1950-1960 Undated Roger Reynolds Roger Reynolds Collection 1964–present 1964 Charles Ives Sonatas For Violin And Piano Volumes 1 And 2 1965 Iannis Xenakis Akrata Pithoprakta / Iannis Xanakis. Capriccio For Violin & Orchestra De Natura Sonoris / Krzysztof Penderecki 1968 Richard Hoffmann String Trio 1969 Michael Sahl Mitzvah For The Dead For Violin And Tape 1969 Roger Sessions Piano Sonata No. 3 - Charles Wuorinen Duo For Violin And Piano 1971 Paul Zukofsky New Music For Chamber Orchestra 1972 George Crumb Black Angels - Charles Jones String Quartet No. 6 1972 Elliott Carter Double Concerto For Harpsichord And Piano With Two Chamber Orchestras Duo For Violin And Piano 1975 Paul Zukofsky Library Of Congress Music Division Concert 1975-10-31 3 00 P.M. 1975 Paul Zukofsky Library Of Congress Music Division Concert 1976-02-27 1976 John Cage Cheap Imitation 1977 Georg Philipp Telemann Trio Sonata In A Minor No. 5 From Essercizii Musici 1978 Paul Zukofsky Library Of Congress Music Division Concert 1979-05-10 1979 Paul Zukofsky Colonial Symphony Orchestra 1980 Morton Feldman Spring Of Chosroes - Artur Schnabel Sonata For Violin And Piano 1981 Edward Steuermann Dialogues 1981 Paul Zukofsky New Music From The University Of Iowa 1983 Philip Glass Photographer 1983 Dane Rudhyar Five Stanzas Epic Poem 1983 Charles Wuorinen Tuba Concerto - Glenn Lieberman Dialectic 1983 Joel Krosnick - Library Of Congress Music Division Concert 1984-11-07 1984 Artur Schnabel Sonata For Solo Violin 1985 Paul Zukofsky Sinfóniúhljómsveit Íslands Íslensk Hljómsveitarkvert - Icelandic Orchestral Music 1986 William Schuman In Praise Of Shahn - Aaron Copland Connotations - Roger Sessions Suite From The Black Maskers 1988 Tōru Takemitsu Piano-Distance 1988 Paul Zukofsky Juilliard Orchestra 1990 Jón Leifs Visions And Images Sound Recording 1991 Jón Nordal Portrait 1991 Paul Zukofsky Min-On Contemporary Music Festival '83 1993 Benjamin Boretz Group Variations II For Computer - J. K. Randall Lyric Variations For Violin And Computer 1993 Paul Zukofsky Sessions Mennin Blackwood 2002 Paul Zukofsky Shapey Riegger Piston Crumb Sollberger Berger 2002 Milton Babbitt Septet But Equal Fourplay 2003 Johann Sebastian Bach Three Sonatas And Three Partitas 2005 Niccolò Paganini 24 Caprices 2005 Paul Zukofsky Third Inter-American Music Festival 1965-05-10 2007 read less