This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
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Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.George Crumb
Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music.
George Crumb
There is, to be sure, a sense of adventure and challenge in articulating our conceptions, despite the fact that we can take so little for granted and perhaps we tend to underestimate the struggle-element in the case of the earlier composers.
George Crumb
I am optimistic about the future of music.
George Crumb
I think we're in a very low point of music right now.
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
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