The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.
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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.Virgil Thomson
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
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I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
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You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.
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I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.
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I seem to write an opera about every 20 years if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.
Virgil Thomson
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