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John Eaton

"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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"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."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."
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"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."
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"Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers."
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"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."
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"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz."
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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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