What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.Gavin Bryars
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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