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Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.

From Terry Teachout

You don't have to know anything about the Shakers to appreciate Mr. Copland's score for 'Appalachian Spring' any more than you have to know who William Randolph Hearst was to understand 'Citizen Kane.'

From Terry Teachout

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

From Terry Teachout

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

From Terry Teachout

Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

From Terry Teachout

No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It's a more serious piece. Yet every bar of 'Appalachian Spring' is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible - great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.

From Terry Teachout

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.

From Terry Teachout

Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.

From Terry Teachout

The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

From Terry Teachout

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

From Terry Teachout

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