Babbitt Portrait of a Serial Composer (2011)

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday Jan 29 2011 at age 94 For years New Yorkbased journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt It was a quirky loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of difficult music Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009 Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilfertys film