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"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey."
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"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."

"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."

"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."

"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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