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DESCRIPTION:Jul 16\, 2026\nTraduttore—traditore\, the Italians say\; to t
 ranslate is to betray. The caveat applies in spades to Das Buch der Kläng
 e\, a gateway to the alpha state by the German composer-pianist Hans Otte 
 (1926–2007). English sources give the title as The Book of Sounds\, sugg
 esting nothing so much as swatches for wallpaper music. But Klang isn’t 
 sound as such. It is sound that’s rich in resonance\, be it acoustic\, e
 motional\, or even spiritual. And such are the sounds Otte had in mind. Me
 ntors who shaped him included on the one hand the methodical Paul Hindemit
 h\, composer and inventor of Gebrauchsmusik\, or “music for practical ap
 plication.” On the other hand\, there was the preternaturally gifted pia
 no virtuoso and lepidopterist Walter Gieseking\, who made the keyboard sin
 g and mastered scores of the utmost complexity simply by looking at the no
 tes on the page. As a radio broadcaster in the out-of-the-way Free Hanseat
 ic City of Bremen\, Otte for years gave airtime to trailblazers like John 
 Cage\, La Monte Young\, John Adams\, Keith Jarrett\, and Steve Reich. Thou
 gh nourished by many streams\, Das Buch der Klänge has a flow all its own
 . Its 12 sections\, running 75 minutes in total\, invite the listener as w
 ell as the performer into a primal stillness from which consonance and eve
 ntually first shimmers of dissonance arise. “A celebration of life in al
 l its colors\,” one of Otte’s disciples has called Das Buch der Kläng
 e\, which to some may suggest music shallower and gaudier than it is. Cono
 r Hanick\, one of a handful of Otte champions fighting the good fight for 
 him\, recently released a recording on the Il Pirata label that feels hard
 ly less pristine than the composer’s own shimmering account of 1984.
LOCATION:Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts\, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd\, Kat
 onah\, NY 10536
SUMMARY:Conor Hanick\, piano: The Book of Sounds
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 e-book-of-sounds
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