But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
More Quotes from Roger Sessions:
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.Roger Sessions
For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other... it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come.
Roger Sessions
The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains.
Roger Sessions
Composers are doers of deeds.
Roger Sessions
I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
Roger Sessions
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