One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture – some might say the supremely important aspect – is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.
Writing seems to be more difficult as you move through the years.
This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.
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.
Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse
As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don’t think it really replaces the other.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
I must confess, my Spanish is not so good – except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
The rhythms of nature – the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects – must inevitably find their analogues in music.
I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.
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