Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.Elliott Carter
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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