Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
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 traditional music of their own cultures. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
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 decades, if not centuries. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
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 reflection of nature. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. George Crumb American Composer More George Crumb Quotes 0