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• When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.
• Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War…
• Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I…
• My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before…
• Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
• Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.
• Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my…
• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.
• That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the…
• Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he…
• Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used…

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