Feldman and Beckett: Words and Music review – hypnotic absurdism at Sheffield Chamber Music festival

Crucible Playhouse, Sheffield This fascinating and bold concert featured the works of the ‘word man’ and the ‘note man’, and their absurdist radio play Words and Music A few months before he died, Morton Feldman told a radio interviewer that he considered Samuel Beckett to be “a word man, a fantastic word man” and that he, Feldman, always thought of himself as a note man. The two worked together twice, first on an opera and then, in 1987, on Words and Music, an absurdist radio play that Becke...

By Clive Paget