I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.
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An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.George Crumb
It is easy to write unthinking music.
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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.
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In any case, the task of finding fresh approaches to opera and to choral music will be inherited by the future.
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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.
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