The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

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An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

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

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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.

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Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

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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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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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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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