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- "Although I have never been directly involved in electronic music, I am keenly aware that ..."
- "Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual ..."
- "Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in ..."
- "An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various ..."
- "An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been ..."
- "Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical ..."
- "As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the ..."
- "But I don't think it's a good thing to create less than good music in ..."
- "Complexity in itself, of course, will not provide rhythmic thrustqand it is true that harmonic ..."
- "I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not ..."
- "I am optimistic about the future of music. "
- "I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. "
- "I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited ..."
- "I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, ..."
- "I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest ..."
- "I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when ..."
- "I think we're in a very low point of music right now. "
- "If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements ..."
- "In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of ..."
- "In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music ..."
- "In general, I feel that the more rationalistic approaches to pitch-organization, including specifically serial technique, ..."
- "It is easy to write unthinking music. "
- "Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century. "
- "My younger son is a rock archivist practically; I'm sure things have filtered out of ..."
- "Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize ..."
- "Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can ..."
- "One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely ..."
- "Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a ..."
- "Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central ..."
- "Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced ..."
- "The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence ..."
- "The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena ..."
- "The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a ..."
- "The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. "
- "There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, ..."
- "This awareness of music in its largest sense - as a world-wide phenomenon - will ..."
- "This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country. "
- "Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, ..."
- "Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years. "
