Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
I have tremendous respect for film composers.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.
I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.
I'm not an intellectual composer.
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.
America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
Sincere composers believe in God.
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.
If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.
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 today.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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