I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunk ...
View quoteI consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think ...
View quoteI don't know that I make a big distinction between the big pieces and the little pieces, because I d ...
View quoteI like the idea that [Mahatma] Gandhi is appearing now in an opera hall in all these different place ...
View quoteSatyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fi ...
View quoteA new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then ...
View quoteThe problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our head ...
View quoteTraditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or wor ...
View quoteTraditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or wor ...
View quote“After Lewis and Clark”
View quote“There were audiences for the first time in living memory. People were discussing modern music. Ma ...
View quote“I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed ...
View quote“The message in that for me,”
View quoteIt doesn't need to be imagined, it needs to be written down.
View quoteYou get up early in the morning and you work all day. That's the only secret.
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