SALZMAN, Eric

One of the clearest and most accurate writers of liner notes and reviews of avant-garde music, including a thrice-revised introductory book on the subject, Salzman is also a composer devoted to his own idea of an innovative music theater, as he calls it, to distinguish his genre from opera, incidentally echoing the preferred coinage of the German director Felsenstein (1901–75). Salzman has collaborated with choreographers, as well as formed a performance company called Quog; he has codirected an...