Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.
Composers are not all good conductors.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.