Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

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

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.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

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