Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
Brian FerneyhoughWhat makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
Brian FerneyhoughIf the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Brian FerneyhoughAs a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
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