I am optimistic about the future of music.
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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.George Crumb
Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.
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Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
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
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
Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.
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