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“I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.” quote by Elliott Carter — Download Open image

“I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.”

Elliott Carter

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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but…

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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of…

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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which…

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Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

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