David Del Tredici Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.”
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“Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.”
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“Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.”
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“I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.”
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“I've always been a composer dependent on texts.”
-- David Del Tredici
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.
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