"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."

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"I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended."

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"Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time."

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"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all."

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"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."

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"What was once underground is now coming to the surface."

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"I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece."

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"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."

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"Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one."

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