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- Nov 07, 2020
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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
- Appalachian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
- American Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
- Compliment
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in the basic element that they're humans and, therefore, they are flawed and have weaknesses.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020