The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
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An American or European composer, for example, now has access to the music of various Asian, African, and South American cultures.George Crumb
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.
George Crumb
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
George Crumb
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
George Crumb
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
George Crumb
I sometimes wonder, too, if people don't have kind of a window of time when they do their best work. And anything after that is like a gift.
George Crumb
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