I grew up listening to the radio and to records. I learned music mainly from that.
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It's the racial aspect of this that will make this tough for her. The public perception is that this is a one-side investigation, and that will detract from her efforts to clean things up. There's merit to many of her positions, and she's on track. But she's always derailed by the city's polarization.Robert Ashley
I thought if I could get television interested in opera, it would make a kind of new thing that would allow composers to build a whole new repertoire.
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I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
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