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• ‟ If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

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• ‟ I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.

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• ‟ However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

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• ‟ In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

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• ‟ The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

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• ‟ I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

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• ‟ It's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

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