'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'The Sound of Music' is one of my favourite old musical films.
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.
Music is organized sound.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
I don't know anything about the history of music.
We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.