Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
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Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz.
Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.
Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
I consider myself a composer.
If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
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