"When I left Europe in 1987 I did……" — Brian Ferneyhough
"When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet."
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35 Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work…
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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering…
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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what…
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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work…
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
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Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should…
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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of…
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As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities…
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers…
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