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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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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."
"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
"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."
"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."
"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."
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