When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.Elliott Carter
Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
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