Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
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So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.Gunther Schuller
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
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That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
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As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
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I heard great music in my mother's womb and my father was in the New York Philharmonic so I was taken to concerts and of course I heard him practice.
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