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"I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups."
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"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
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"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
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"I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven."
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"Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully."
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"The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics."
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"Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply."
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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."
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"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."
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"Many composers today don't know what the human throat is."
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"I think we're in a very low point of music right now."
Music
"The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general."
Music
"Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years."
Writing
"I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music."
Music
"I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic."
Present
"The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child."
Future
"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche."
Music
"In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music."
Music
"Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today."
Composer
"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish."
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