"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."

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"An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments."

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"I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college."

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"Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records."

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"In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer."

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