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... →
George Crumb
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels... →
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.
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... →
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of... →
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and... →
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for... →
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.