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

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

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

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

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

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