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Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.
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I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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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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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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Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.
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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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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
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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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Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
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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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It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.
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