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Harrison Birtwistle

"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

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A.E. Samaan

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"

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A.E. Samaan

"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

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A.E. Samaan

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"It's the irrational things that interest me."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

Theatre

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Harrison Birtwistle
"There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music."

Music

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Harrison Birtwistle
"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."

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"In the end it doesn't matter what you do."

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Harrison Birtwistle
"Music is such a problem in the time it takes."

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