30th
December 2024: Launch of the new website dedicated to Paul Bowles
A new website
dedicated to Paul Bowles to explore his multifaceted legacy.
Paul
Bowles is an iconic American writer and composer
known for his passion for world cultures. The website allows the visitor to get acquainted with
his unique creative force. His work drew the admiration of writers such as
Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Patricia Highsmith, Gertrude Stein, William
Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Composers like Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and
Leonard Bernstein as well as other younger and avant-garde artists were
enthusiastic about his music.
The
different sections of which the site is composed are carefully curated,
including a chronology with links to publications of his novels, short
stories and travel writings - which are mostly in print - to his musical
scores, and to relevant archival materials. Other sections show photographs
of and by Paul Bowles, a catalogue of his personal library, and
recordings of Moroccan story tellers he collaborated with.
Navigating
the website, you can listen to samples of the music Bowles composed
during the first half of his life–works for piano, songs, orchestral pieces,
incidental music for the theater and film--and you can also discover the very
last music he produced, when he was already in his eighties, working on a
synthesizer. You can hear a very rare sample of “musique concrète”
dating from the late 1950s, and from this time you can also hear a selection of
the recordings of Moroccan music he collected traveling across Morocco.
You can
read samples of his rare autobiographical texts, of his writings on
music, and see some of his travel photography.
We hope
this collaborative effort among enthusiasts of Mr Bowles’s work will prove to
be a resource for scholars of Paul
Bowles and enthusiasts of his work for years to come.
27 December 2024,
Rodrigo
Rey Rosa
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