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• An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
• There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a…
• I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel…
• I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players…
• I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece…
• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got…
• I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the…
• If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be…
• Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going…
• The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art…

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