Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
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.
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Music is like the soul of the planet.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
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.
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