David Del Tredici quotes

“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.”
-- David Del Tredici

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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.”
-- David Del Tredici

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“Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.”
-- David Del Tredici

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“I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.”
-- David Del Tredici

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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.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions”

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

“The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.”