If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.