"Today, with a recording, he can hear the……" — Leo Ornstein
"Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music."
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Leo Ornstein
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Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there…
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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
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A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
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Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when…
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But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
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Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
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