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Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

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

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When people listen to my music, I hope that they will notice that if you take a piece by a composer like Schubert, the major and the minor triad is an extermely important thing not merely as harmony, but in creating melodic lines. Schubert is always walking up and down with arpeggios on C, E, G and so forth. I am not doing anything different really, except using a different system of harmony.

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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

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My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

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The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

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The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

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