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23-Mar-2012
Discussions About Accordion Work Reported in New York Times - USAby Harley Jones |
 The following is segments from a recent article in The New York Times:Osvaldo Golijov (picture lower left), one of today’s most sought-after composers, was said to have borrowed excessively from a work for accordion and ensemble, ‘Barbeich’, by Michael Ward-Bergeman (picture top left), a composer, accordionist and close friend. ‘Sidereus’, the subject of this fracas, is a nine-minute overture by Golijov. Osvaldo Golijov, however, said that both works, as well as a string quartet he recently wrote, were partly derived from several discarded minutes of a film score that the two composers collaborated on. That movie was ‘Tetro’, a 2009 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Osvaldo Golijov has the film credit for original score, although, he said, Mr. Ward-Bergeman helped out on sections. “There was this beautiful material,” Mr. Golijov said. “It didn’t work for the movie, but it worked for music. We decided both: ‘Let’s grab it. Each one can do what he wants.’ ” He said that the two had worked so closely on the scene that it was impossible to separate who wrote what. “Joint ideas, joint material, same room,” he said. Plagiarism? Excessive borrowing? The normal creative process? |