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Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face... →
I am optimistic about the future of music.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a... →
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels... →
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find... →
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical... →
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of... →
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