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We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.
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Capture
Contemporary
Contemporary Life
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I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.
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Involved
Sweep
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Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
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Composers
Operas
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The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
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Involved
Jazz
Music Jazz Way
Frankly
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I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
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Sound
Electronic
Performance
Synthesizer
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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Valuable
Open
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It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.
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Me Important School
Disciples
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We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.
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Range
Broad
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I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.
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Expressive
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Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
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Nevertheless
Tone
Oh
Quarter
Sharp
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Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
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Drama
Opera
Began
Intent
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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
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First Of All
Theorist
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I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
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Expecting
Making Up
Plot
Trouble
Composers
Follow
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It's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
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Opera
Reaching
Vision
Matters
Piece
Ultimately
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I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.
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Technology
Window
Greatest
Enemies
However
Throw
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I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
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Action
Departure
Performers
Thinking
Context
Express
Mine
Terms
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If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.
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Point Of View
Theatrical
Timing
Dramas
Important Part
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However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.
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Available
Faults
Generally
However
Performance
Riddled
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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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Audience
Clear
Composer
Elements
Opera
Rate
Responsibility
Staff
Visual
American Audience
Exactly
Exactly What
Production
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In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
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Audience
Words
Experience Music Words
Failed
In Other Words
Listens
Missed
Tune
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