What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
Brian FerneyhoughSometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
Brian FerneyhoughComposers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Brian FerneyhoughThere 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.
Brian Ferneyhough