Gunther Schuller

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.

American Composer

George Crumb

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

Fred Frith

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.

English Composer

Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

American Musician

Fede Alvarez

In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

Uruguayan Director

James Cook

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

British Explorer

Tim Rice

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

British Musician

Claudio Monteverdi

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

Italian Composer

Bob Fosse

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

American Celebrity

John Corigliano

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Understanding a composer's influence can enrich the cultural context of the music being discussed.

Cultural Impact

Composers often specialize in a certain genre; knowing this can inform your expectations of their work.

Genre Specific

Learning when a composer lived helps grasp the historical and musical context of their compositions.

Historical Period

 some of the issues that I'm thinking about as I look at the role of the composer and the artist and the writer and this era of just very, very radical change in the environment. So, what I want to do is walk you guys through some of the material that drives, why I think the Arctic is so important. I ended up writing a book about

DJ Spooky's Arctic...

 The concert hall helps as well, with rigid surfaces that reflect sound waves towards the audience. All singers take advantage of these techniques, but different vocal signatures demand different physical preparation. A Wagnerian singer needs to build up stamina to power through the composer’s four-hour epics.

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 that avoided exact repetition. They heard excerpts from these pieces in either their original form, or in a version that had been digitally altered to include repetition. Although the original versions had been composed by some of the most respected 20th century composers,

Why we love repetition...

 and I think it's because it has a pitch. It has a melody. You can almost see the shape as it springs from someone's mouth. "Indey" -- it dips, and then raises again. And as a musician and composer, when I hear that word, something like this is floating through my mind.

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 but I'm actually having a paradoxical reaction to that, so that was a bad idea. Anyway, I was really delighted to receive the invitation to present to you some of my music and some of my work as a composer, presumably because it appeals

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 and all the great Romantic composers. Next, I make the structure of the entire piece with my teachers. They help me plan out the whole piece. And then the hard part is filling it in with musical ideas, because then you have to think.

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 made the age of the virtuoso possible. This is when those big forms arose -- the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos. And in these big architectures of time, composers like Beethoven could share the insights of a lifetime.

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 to raise our spirits during the pandemic we brought together composer han zimmer and jacob shea and top selling artist dave to create a visual and musical feast

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 to have orchestras in all the countries in all Americas. And we want to play a little piece for you by one of the most important composers

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 thank you as a composer and artist my work comes from a place between worlds that place we call home that is both