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George Crumb Quotes
«An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.»
Author: George Crumb
«Although we must be impressed by the enormous accruement of new elements of vocabulary in the areas of pitch, rhythm, timbre, and so forth, I sense at the same time the loss of a majestic unifying principle in much of our recent music.»
Author: George Crumb
«Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.»
Author: George Crumb
«I think we're in a very low point of music right now.»
Author: George Crumb
«Apart from these broader cultural influences which contribute to the shaping of our contemporary musical psyche, we also have to take into account the rather bewildering legacy of the earlier twentieth-century composers in the matter of compositional technique and procedure.»
Author: George Crumb
«The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.»
Author: George Crumb
«Numerous recordings of non-Western music are readily available, and live performances by touring groups can be heard even in our smaller cities.»
Author: George Crumb
«Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.»
Author: George Crumb
«The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.»
Author: George Crumb
«As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.»
Author: George Crumb