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.
From Gavin Bryars
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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.
Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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