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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

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As much as mixing instruments, I'm also mixing acoustic space so the music will travel through some different sorts of environments.

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The ideal, of course, is to have the respect of professionals and the admiration of amateurs. I suppose this was the case in the past.

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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

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I did that as a personal journey when I was a philosophy student and working as a jazz musician, so I moved from philosphy to music.

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I would also like the soloist to feel happy to put it in front of the public, because in the end he's on the firing line, not me.

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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

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The transition from one form of percussion to another and the ways in which it's possible to blur those distinctions is quite interesting.

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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

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My thinking in this was as follows in all the versions I had made everything that is played serves to accompany and support the old man's voice.

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It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.

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