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• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I…
• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early…
• I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and…
• I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
• It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work…
• It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's…
• Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly…

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