Het vruchtbare land

'I was struck by the coherence,as one could say,brought about within the music itself.Without the painter/musician Paul Klee,who was the most poetic of all,and without the poet René Char,Pierre Boulez himself claimsthat he never had become a composer.sounds, images, wordsAbout inner desert,and the exuberant inner bloomthat Klee transferred on his canvases from Egypt,the Nile, from the Valley of Kings.And about Boulez' own contemplationson the creative process:both of them wrote theories of music,theories of art.creationMost of all I was struckby the constant alternationof desert and bloom,the myths that raise this synchronicityof creation and downfall,existential fear,production and death.'fertility