![]() ![]() The driving spirit behind the Encounter was Nicolas Nabokov, composer and secretary-general of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), a worldwide coalition of intellectuals united from across a broad political spectrum in a network of committees and institutions which had been founded in the early 1950s with the stated aim of defending artistic and intellectual freedom against totalitarian oppression, and which would be exposed in the mid-1960s as a CIA instrument designed to lure non-aligned intellectuals away from the blandishments of Soviet-style Communism. ![]() Organized as a conference-festival, nearly a hundred composers, musicologists and music critics from Western Europe, the United States and various parts of Asia discussed problems of cross-cultural understanding and contemporary musical life during the day, and by night reveled in high-profile performances of, among others, the New York Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and prominent interpreters of Indian, Thai, Korean and Japanese traditional music. ![]() In the spring of 1961, Tokyo provided the stage for what was announced as “a confrontation of unprecedented breadth and significance in the history of music”: the ‘East-West Music Encounter’.
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