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What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it.
John Eaton
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Well, the very best operas are the ones written by the very best composers.
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The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
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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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I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.
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But nevertheless, 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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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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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.
John Eaton
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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.
John Eaton
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Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
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I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
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I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.
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I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it.
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