Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

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.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.