I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.
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What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.Roger Sessions
Composers are doers of deeds.
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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
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The more one studies these scores, the more indisputable one finds their evidences of authentic genius, and the more captivated one remains.
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For my part I regard it as, in itself, neither one or the other... it is the way the music comes, the way it has to come.
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